Seeking new horizons can take many forms.
New England
Mel Allen
Passion projects show us what happens when work entwines with joy.
For more than a century, the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, has given writers, artists, and composers the freedom to produce some of the most enduring works in their fields.
New England
Treasured Islands | Inside Yankee
Decades ago, on a blustery spring day, I boarded a ferry in Rockland, Maine, and a long two hours later, after a wave-tossed crossing of 23 miles, I stumbled, white as a ghost, onto the wharf where a watchful contingent of Matinicus islanders waited to see the hopeful prospective teacher for their one-room school. I […]
New England
Tests of Time | Inside Yankee
It is human nature to explore, to want to discover the new, and then to celebrate when we find it. This is why we travel. But there is also pleasure in those places and experiences that have stood the test of time, where what you see and feel has been seen and felt in almost […]
Magazine
Bringing Kosti Home
After Kosti Ruohomaa died in 1961, his legacy as one of New England’s greatest photographers was all but forgotten. Now his photos have a new life.
New England
Food for Thought | Inside Yankee
The first thing I do each morning is turn on my computer and see what emails have arrived from Yankee readers. Lately, something new has been cropping up in this correspondence: comments about Weekends with Yankee, the national PBS show in which our knowledge of New England’s special places and its unique people takes center […]
New Hampshire
Winter Daytrip to Portsmouth, NH
Looking for things to do in Portsmouth, NH? Check out a day trip to the dog-friendly town with ideas on what to do and where to eat.
Magazine
Taking the Wheel
A novice boat captain in Stony Creek, Connecticut, learns to navigate the choppiest waters of her young life.
New England
Guiding Lights | Inside Yankee
Sometimes winter can settle in with a dark thud—we’ve all felt it, at one point or another—and when it does, inspiration is needed like a burst of blue sky and sun. This issue is filled with that burst: in stories of New Englanders following their hearts and their passions, stories that may prod you to […]
When the paper mill that had defined Bucksport, Maine, for eight decades shut down just before Christmas 2014, the town, like others before it, could have withered away. Instead, something else happened.
New England
In Praise of Small Gifts | Inside Yankee
In the last week of August, a reader from East Dummerston, Vermont, sent us an email that began, “I don’t know why I haven’t written before to say how much I love Yankee.” She went on to write: “I savor every article and even read the ads … I won’t allow myself to read the […]