Fifty years ago Boston Traveler photographer Harry Trask snapped these three pictures at the Boston Marathon—and runner 261 became a legend.
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Photographer Burt Vernon Brooks found inspiration in the rural villages along the Swift River in Massachusetts.
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Gifts of the Sea | Inside Yankee
From the day I first came to Yankee, back in 1979, I have seen thousands of photographs of New England. This region teems with photographers telling stories with their cameras. It’s not simply what they see; it’s also how they see. But in all my years here, I have never been so surprised, so astonished, […]
These Maine wreaths reach across time.
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Spirits | Inside Yankee
Every issue of Yankee takes on a life of its own. Sometimes we plan it that way, when, for instance, we start with a theme in mind and then plump up the pages with stories that fit. But more often, it’s as though the individual stories hold a secret meeting without inviting any of us, […]
Yankee magazine Editor Mel Allen shares how a Christmas Eve mistake led to a lasting happy family memory.
We take a look back at our interview with legendary Maine author Stephen King, from when The Stand was first published.
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The Two Worlds of Bill De La Rosa
Few people knew what was driving a young man to become one of the most honored college students in America.
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Journeys | Inside Yankee
Fall brings visitors to New England by the tens of thousands. And no, I’m not speaking here about the leaf peepers who tour during the short, spectacular weeks of color, but the more than 60,000 foreign students who come to New England’s colleges each September. And, also, the thousands of other ethnically and economically diverse […]
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Summer on Sebago Lake
Head a half-hour or so northwest of Portland, Maine, a city defined by the sea, and you’ll come to Sebago Lake. Around its 45 square miles you won’t find wilderness, unless a storm rolls in, dark as night, and that’s wild enough when it catches you. But like thousands of lakes in New England, Sebago […]
Baldwin Coolidge found inspiration in the comings and goings of Woods Hole scientists and students. The intersection of art and science came together when Baldwin Coolidge (1845–1928) brought his heavy, large-format cameras and dry-plate glass negatives to the dock on Quissett Harbor in 1897, at a time when Woods Hole, a village in the town […]
Two intrepid photographers trekked hut-to-hut across Presidential Range in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, discovering hardship, pain, beauty, and wonder along the way.