Food

Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

These tasty chewy chocolate cookies keep for several days in an airtight container. You can make the dough in advance and freeze it, too.

Soups, Stews & Chowders

Roasted Butternut Squash Soup with Goat Cheese

A drizzle of nutty browned butter and sage in this roasted butternut squash soup recipe gives a wink to the Italian classic ravioli di zucca e salvia.

Magazine

Weekends with Yankee Season 3 Episode Descriptions

301 – Adventure On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, cohost Richard Wiese experiences the thrill of the Kennebec River, New England’s top whitewater rafting destination. Then we rise with the sun in Bremen, Maine, and head out with the “puffin man,” National Audubon researcher Stephen Kress, who almost single-handedly returned puffin pairs, and their […]

Breads

Cornbread for a Crowd

This recipe for cornbread for a crowd makes enough to feed a group — written by someone who clearly has done just that! Pair with baked beans or chili.

Magazine

Big Night for Frogs & Salamanders | First Light

In early spring, many frogs and salamanders leave their woodland homes to find rain-fed pools for mating. Often they must cross busy roads—and that’s where humans step in to help.

Living

Tracy K. Smith | Knowledge & Wisdom

This Pulitzer Prize winner and two-term U.S. poet laureate celebrates her birthday, fittingly, during National Poetry Month.

Massachusetts

The Mother Library

When a young Midwesterner started working at the Boston Public Library, he was a stranger in a strange land. What he discovered there, though, would change his life.

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