There may be better ways to vacation than living on a houseboat plying the waters of Lake Champlain beneath summer’s blue sky (“Slow Boat on a Big Lake”) but I can’t think of any. Well, maybe one: kicking back at a cabin in the Maine woods, a timeless retreat you return to year after year […]
It’s been nearly a century since a 7-pound baby boy was born at 83 Beals Street in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. His parents named him John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and it’s almost inconceivable that he would have turned 100 this year, since we know him forever as a president with youth, vigor, and optimism, […]
Fifty years ago Boston Traveler photographer Harry Trask snapped these three pictures at the Boston Marathon—and runner 261 became a legend.
Photographer Burt Vernon Brooks found inspiration in the rural villages along the Swift River in Massachusetts.
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.
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.
Few people knew what was driving a young man to become one of the most honored college students in America.
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 […]
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 […]
