Ken Sheldon

The good news: You’re taking a kid to college in Boston. The bad news: You’re taking a kid to college in Boston.

The onset of a yard sale typically begins with the realization that your junk seems to be reproducing, creating entirely new categories of clutter. So you decide to sell that extra stuff, casting better judgment and previous experience to the wind. Photo/Art by Mark Brewer First comes a period of sorting, pricing, and domestic negotiation. […]

New Englanders take a variety of approaches to snow removal. Here we present Yankee’s guide to snow shoveling, mainly so that we don’t have to go out and do it ourselves.

Everyone knows the famous Pilgrims, but what about all the other, lesser-known Pilgrims? Here’s the scoop on a few of our B-list forefathers and mothers.

“Humor can be dissected, as a frog can,” E. B. White famously said, “but the thing dies in the process.”  Nevertheless, throwing caution to the wind (along with some lint picked off an old sweater), we examine  here the contributions made to the field by Yankee humor, which was anaesthetized using extracts of Town Meeting […]

Whether it’s Old Home Days, a 250th anniversary, or the annual Strawberry–Pumpkin–Lobster–Potato Festival, we Yankees love a New England town festival — so much so that we make sure they’re all basically the same.

It’s high time we New Englanders had a stake in the zodiac game, and so we proudly present the Yankee Zodiac. (Or semi-proudly.)

What’s your woodpile style? The experts at Yankee’s research center for advanced wood studies developed this test to help you find out.

Welcome to New England, where people dress like it’s nobody’s business … because it is nobody’s business. Fashion for Compliments Traditional fisherman’s garb is based on those ceramic figurines sold in every tourist shop from Biddeford to Bar Harbor. A pipe and beard are considered de rigueur accessories, although many female fisherfolk omit the pipe. […]

Wondering where to go for the perfect summer vacation in New England this year? Use this handy guide to determine which classic destination is best for you.

Welcome to New England, home of culinary creativity … and more than a few oddities.

From Caribou, Maine, to somewhere south of Hartford, there’s only one big-league ball team for New England…but a wide assortment of characters who love them, known as Red Sox Nation.