Yankee Magazine
Welcome to the September 2009 edition of Jud’s New England Journal, the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, the Editor-in-Chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, N.H. Some Things We Can Count on Not to Change It’s not quite as easy to come up with unchanging things as we first thought… We […]
New England
VIDEO: Ziplining
Zipline tours are the new rage in New England ski towns. Alpine Adventures in Lincoln, in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, offers two courses; some jumps feature dual lines, letting riders race each other. Listen to Yankee editor Justin Shatwell describe his adventure on the zipline. Photos by Annie Card. See more photos by Annie Card
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Sunrise In Narragansett
Photo of sunrise at Narragansett Beach
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Barbecue Bean Supper
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Corn Mazes in New England
Have you been to a corn maze? Bring a sense of adventure and get ready to laugh, scream, and have fun at these New England fall farm features. Visit, for example, Marini Farms in Ipswich, Massachusetts, where an 8-acre, interactive Maze Quest opens with clues via 3-D glasses and text messages. The maze takes about […]
It was the summer of 1953. Ernest F. Fetske, a prominent naval architect from New York, and his wife, Bettina, were taking a load of bricks in their boat out to their vacation home on five-acre Brockway Island in Essex, Connecticut. They’d been spending weekends there since purchasing it in the early 1940s. Folks around […]
When it came to the kitchen counters, Stephen Florimbi opted for thin over thick: “I wanted something that had a classic New England look with a slightly modern touch.” This boatbuilder found his solution in a material he’s more than a little familiar with: copper. He cut out two sheets of the metal (one for […]
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When You Go — Ziplines
Alpine Adventures Treetop Canopy Tour & Sky Rider Lincoln, NH (offices) 888-745-9911, 603-745-9911 alpinezipline.com Wildcat Mountain Ziprider Pinkham Notch, NH 888-754-9453, 603-466-3326 skiwildcat.com/ziprider.html Adventure Gorge Zipline Canopy Tour Plymouth, NH 888-289-1020 whitemountainexploration.com/zip_line.htmlGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Bretton Woods Canopy Tour Bretton Woods, NH 603-278-4947 mountwashingtonresort.com/activities/canopy_tour/overview Sugarbush Zipline Warren, VT […]
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