What do you get when you fill a hotel ballroom with magazine editors? A whole lot of doubt, social awkwardness, and over analyzing. Ahhhh, the City and Regional Magazine Association Conference, how I missed you. The CRMAs, or Creamas as I like to call it (it’ll catch on, I swear), is an annual ritual for […]
Justin Shatwell
Magazine
Perusing the Yankee Index
Yankee has been publishing stories since 1935. Occasionally the need arises for us to go back and find one in particular. This is always a nightmare. The trouble is that Yankee Magazine doesn’t have a single, comprehensive index. For the years 1935-1978, we have a slick, professional, hardbound index that is the envy of the […]
William Tecumseh Sherman looks as though he hasn’t slept in 36 hours. His brow is sagging and creased, his eyes are swollen, and it’s unclear whether the scraggly beard on his chin is something he grew intentionally. His tie is noticeably askew, but, so the story goes, when Augustus Saint-Gaudens asked him to straighten it, […]
All but lost to the ages were the lives of child laborers in Winchendon, Massachusetts, photographed a century ago by Lewis Hine. Then Joe Manning went looking for “the most beautiful girl in American history.” [slideshow post_id=”96351″] DON’T MISS: More Child Labor Photos by Lewis HineGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) […]
When young Pliny Moody dug an odd-looking rock out of his family’s field in 1802, he wasn’t sure what to make of it at first. It was pockmarked with three-toed impressions that looked like the scratchings of some ancient bird. The most likely answer, he reasoned, was that they must be the footprints of “Noah’s […]
Connecticut
Traveler Food and Books | Only in New England
Off exit 74 on I-84, the quizzical yellow sign that reads Traveler Food and Books is, if nothing else, aptly descriptive. Millions see it every year, but those who stop in tiny Union, Connecticut (population 700), to investigate find an old, wood-paneled restaurant littered with books crammed into shelves and cubbies. It feels a little […]
View a collection of some of the treasures from the John Carter Brown Library on the Brown University Green in Providence, Rhode Island.
When we first heard about Fetchstix, the initial question that came to mind was: “Is this an example of Yankee ingenuity or a sign of the apocalypse?” Wagatha’s, a small company in Manchester Center, Vermont, that produces organic dog biscuits, has started selling bundles of maple sticks as boutique dog toys for $12.95 a pop, […]
Rhode Island
John Carter Brown Library | Local Treasure
The Columbus letter is thinner than you’d expect–just a few pages of Latin type and a handful of illustrations wrapped in a gold-embossed cover. Reprinted all over Europe, it conveyed a simple message: Christopher Columbus had found land. No one knew how much. It might be a lot. From that message sprang centuries of explorers […]
Connecticut
The Crèche at Regina Laudis | Local Treasure
If the crèche at the Abbey of Regina Laudis strikes you as a little out of place, there’s a good reason. The austere Yankee barn that houses it is a world away from its previous home. Handcrafted by artisans in Naples, the intricate nativity scene was presented as a coronation gift to Victor Amadeus II, […]
As a native of Berlin, New Hampshire, Rachelle Beaudoin knows the difference between fesses and foufounes. She jokes about life behind the “Granite Curtain” and watches for “swamp donkeys” on the road at night. Every town has its own inside jokes and local lore, a secret language that natives speak fluently and visitors can only […]
In East Hampton, CT, once the cradle of bellmakers, the Bevin Bros. Manufacturing Company refuses to go silent.