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.
Mel Allen
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 […]
New England
Dear Yankee | November/December 2018
Readers respond to their favorite Yankee Magazine articles.
E.B. White wrote some of the most enduring words in American literature from his farm in Brooklin, Maine. Now, the house, barn, and 44 acres could be yours.
New England
What Autumn Teaches | Inside Yankee
I am writing this during the third week of July. On this day I will enjoy about 15 hours of daylight. By mid-September, when the first foliage seekers visit the mountains and lakes of northern New England, the light will have lessened by two and a half hours. When the roads fill with tourists in […]
New England
Secret Sharers | Inside Yankee
Tens of thousands of tourists have photographed or painted the iconic shack in Rockport, Massachusetts, known as Motif No. 1. But when writer Todd Balf, who grew up in Rockport, took a look inside [“The Most Famous Fish Shack in the World,” p. 20], he was able to let us in on a local secret: It’s […]
On a small island in Maine, explorers of all ages find a wide-open window into the natural world.
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The Last Explorer
Christina Tree’s travel writing has shown New England to the world. And after 50 years, she’s still hitting the road in search of new adventures because, as she puts it, “I never wanted to be left behind.”
New England
Seeing with New Eyes | Inside Yankee
Some of my favorite and most enduring memories from my three years as a fourth-grade teacher in Maine happened in science class, when I would pass out magnifying glasses to the children on spring days, with the grass greening and the earth awakening at their feet. We’d go outside, to a field that stretched to […]
The Newton family was camping at Coburn Gorge in northern Maine over Labor Day weekend in 1975 when Kurt, age 4, disappeared. What followed has been termed “the most extensive woods search in the history of Maine.” But all the thousands of volunteer searchers ever found were unanswered questions.
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Earth Days | Inside Yankee
My son Josh was born on Earth Day 1988, and he grew up with a love of natural places seemingly imbued by fate. I mention him here because it is his generation and the ones that follow that will judge how we have treated this planet. This year Earth Day will be observed on Sunday, April […]
Wherever she appears, Jane Smith of Manchester, Maine, knows with absolute certainty how she will be introduced to her audience: Jane Smith, mother of schoolgirl Samantha Smith.