Mel Allen

A scenic day trip from Portland, with Casco Bay along for the ride.

Spring daffodils dazzle and take center stage at Rhode Island’s Blithewold.

Eight essential tips for staying warm in winter (hint: you’re doing socks wrong) from a New England extreme cold expert.

A Q&A with the best-selling Maine author about her new book, “Northeaster,” about the Blizzard of 1952.

Yankee’s longtime editor, Mel Allen, shares his picks for some of the most beautiful places in New Hampshire.

I am writing this in late summer, a few days after laying to rest my mother-in-law, Mary, beside her husband, who has been waiting more than 40 years for her in the leafy cemetery a short walk from our house. Mary was 96, ready to move on, so this is not a sad story. Instead, […]

From Burlington to Barre, Yankee’s longtime editor, Mel Allen, shares his picks for some of the most beautiful places in Vermont.

In the last days of September 1978, I joined a potato harvest crew on Donald Gallagher’s farm in northern Aroostook County, Maine. I worked for 40 cents a barrel. To fill a barrel you bent over, put a basket between your legs, and picked potatoes with both hands. After only an hour my legs had […]

In creating a home “you don’t want to leave,” Sandra Morgan Downie has drawn thousands of followers to her online doorstep.

Cape Neddick Light perches so handsomely on Nubble Island that we call it simply “Nubble Light.” It may well be the light we love most.

The dream of small towns, stone walls, covered bridges, country stores, and town greens are just some of the reasons why people love New England. What’s yours?

Yankee’s long-time Editor shares a list of favorite things to do in Vermont — from the quintessential Vermont town to the perfect foliage drive.