Rhode Island

Point Judith

Photo taken by Point Judith Lighthouse

Rhode Island

Support The Troops

Photo is taken of a silo in Lincoln, RI. with American Flag draped down the silo

Rhode Island

Water Fire

Just before water fire in Providence

Food

beans

Connecticut

Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin

Schoolchildren know Eli Whitney’s cotton gin as one of the most influential inventions in American history and an icon of Yankee ingenuity, but its purpose was simple: Remove seeds from cotton. The cotton gin’s impact on the South was complex and profound. This gin, patented in 1794, is the earliest known working scale model in […]

Connecticut

Connecticut Drive: Litchfield County

By Carol Cambo Get map of this trip. Yankee‘s driving tour of Litchfield County in the northwest corner of Connecticut follows a 56-mile tour in a counter-clockwise direction, beginning in the town of Litchfield and a visit to nearby Goshen to meet the animals of Action Wildlife.Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! […]

History

New England By the Numbers | Stats on the Six States

$71,000 amount generated by traffic tickets last year in Brighton, Vermont (pop. 1,200). Can you say “speed trap”?Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe 4,180 cows now enrolled in Vermont’s “Cow Power” program, producing enough methane to power 1,229 Vermont homes 250 works of art in the permanent collection of the […]

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