Photo Credit: Library of Congress The fast way to reach the Berkshires from the east is to hop on the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90) and set your cruise control to 65, or 70 if you want to test the five-miles-over rule. Or you can drive through history–slowly, windows open, stopping here and there, taking photos, drinking […]
A team endurance challenge like no other, Tough Mudder has been called “probably the toughest event on the planet,” putting participants through an experience that is equal parts torture and badge of honor. I am sure that anyone who has competed in or witnessed a Tough Mudder event, has wished: “Why didn’t I think of […]
The calendar on the day these words will first appear will read January 27, 2012. But in our Yankee editorial offices here in Dublin we are already deep into the winter of 2013. Our colleagues at the Old Farmer’s Almanac, just down the corridor may already know about the weather next winter—but they’re not letting […]
We all want snow right now, even if only for a few days. When snow falls in mid December, the child in us that hides as a grownup most of the time, feels safe to emerge, to want to play outside, and look skyward with our own children searching for the magical sleigh. But nowhere […]
There is no better way to know a famous tourist town than arriving off season, when the tourists have left, and the locals reclaim their streets, their beaches, their way of life that brought them here in the first place, perhaps generations ago. I rarely visit a beautiful place without daydreaming at some point about […]
Each November the City and Regional Magazine Association asks editors of its nearly 70 member publications to choose the best stories, photo essays, designs, covers, and Web content produced that year. I love doing it — it’s a chance to revisit an entire year’s efforts by everyone I work with, including freelance writers, photographers, and […]
The other day I was cleaning out a closet, where I have stacked too many boxes of papers and notebooks filled with interviews from two decades (or more) ago. A photo I had not seen for many years spilled out. The photo shows a young man dressed in sequined pants, a sequined outer robe type […]
This space is where I usually tell you about the stories bound together within these covers. But there’s the matter of Irene to talk about now. What you hold here left the Yankee offices on its way to the printer less than two weeks after Tropical Storm Irene spilled its fury into the waterways of […]
LOCATION: Bear Pond, Waterford Date: October 10 Time: 3:45 p.m. Equipment: 60mm lens ” I feel as though there are two sides of autumn. There’s the active autumn, where there’s lots of energy involved: fairs, festivals, pumpkin stands, apple picking, leaf peeping. And then there’s the quiet autumn, like a lake with colors on the […]
LOCATION: Pine Point (northeast of Old Orchard Beach) Date: October 4 Time: 5:05 p.m. Equipment: 40mm lens “I was driving and suddenly saw the slash of red on the grass of the marsh, and then I noticed the piece of wood.”
LOCATION: Scarborough Marsh Date: October 4 Time: 4:00 p.m. Equipment: 150mm lens “I love the golden yellow of marsh grasses. I switched to a longer 150mm lens to get more color. I wanted to be sure I got the bridge in the photo; it sets up the expansiveness of the marsh.”
LOCATION: Biddeford Pool Date: October 19 Time: 8:30 a.m. Equipment: 40mm lens “I’d come here the day before in the late afternoon to do some scouting and noticed that the marsh shot would be better in the morning. I came back then for sunrise on the water … Autumn is the most challenging season to […]
