The first story I published in Yankee was in 1977. I wrote it in longhand on yellow lined paper, then typed it on my gray manual Smith Corona. If I made a mistake (and I made many), I’d slip a sliver of correction tape over the mangled word and make things right. I typed thousands […]
Molly Bish vanished without a trace in 2000. Her parents vow: “We’ll never stop searching. And we’ll fight to make sure children are safe.”
The May 25, 1965, Ali vs. Liston fight for heavyweight champion of the world was supposed to make Lewiston, Maine, famous. Instead, it became “the fiasco.” Excerpt from “The Night Lewiston, Maine, Can Never Forget,” Yankee Magazine, May, 1979. The rematch for the heavyweight championship of the world between Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) and former […]
The Allen sisters, Frances and Mary, found uncommon beauty in the people and landscape of Deerfield, Massachusetts. For three decades, from the end of the 19th century into the early 1920s, the photographs made by two sisters, Frances Stebbins Allen and Mary Electa Allen, bathed the people and landscape in and around their home in Deerfield, […]
There’s a little of the concierge in many of us who live in New England. We like to think we know what makes our region special. You can see this pleasant tendency when visitors pop into our office here in Dublin. Usually they’re on vacation. Their numbers pick up in summer and when the leaves […]
When Ted Williams and Bud Leavitt go fishing, as they’ve been doing for more than 40 years, something is always biting. If the fish aren’t, then the conversation is …
Five years before Ben & Jerry’s there was Steve’s Ice Cream in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Harold Orne captured the thrill and the drama of skiing New Hampshire’s awesome Tuckerman Ravine. In April 4, 1937, some 2,800 hardy spectators and a small number of ski adventurers, many of them members of the Dartmouth Outing Club, trekked the roughly 2.5 miles from Pinkham Notch, New Hampshire, to the base of the immense […]
As I’ve said before in this space, sometimes a theme emerges in an issue, unexpectedly, as if it’s been hiding in plain sight. Only when I read the entire issue again, on the first weekend of this new year, did I find this one: the people and places we pass by each day without really […]
Kosti Ruohomaa’s work told the stories of Maine’s people and the rugged lives they led. When Kosti Ruohomaa looked through the lens of his camera, he saw not only a single photograph but also a story, one filled with emotion, drama, and the complexity of life. Ruohomaa was born to Finnish immigrants in Quincy, Massachusetts, […]
When the cold settles on Prudence Island in the middle of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay, the 150 year-round residents notice a special quality of light they call “winter blue” reflecting off the water. Photographer Ron Cowie found a place of self-sufficient people with deep roots, a place where he felt “time has a different sensibility.” […]
I know in most instances you’ll glance at an editor’s letter and zip by. I’m the new editor of Yankee, and I hope you’ll stay with me a moment longer. From the time I published my first story in this magazine, more than 300 issues have left our Dublin, New Hampshire, offices, each one different […]
