With an abundance of culture, natural beauty, and historical hospitality, the Berkshires offer the perfect setting for a summer weekend escape.
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In 1973 in Rockport, Maine, an entrepreneur named David H. Lyman founded what would become America’s first large-scale photo workshop. Offering summer seminars in this picturesque harbor village, Maine Photographic Workshops soon drew students from around the world, who came to learn from such luminaries as Ernst Haas and Mary Ellen Mark. Today the program […]
Verdant fields roll down to the water and artists gather in a magical land called the Farm Coast. Learn more about this special corner of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Yankee rounds up summer events well worth the drive.
Massachusetts
Boott Cotton Mills Museum | Local Treasure
Though New England’s textile boom is long past, its echoes still rumble through Lowell National Historical Park.
New England
The Best 5 New England Wilderness Lodges
Leave civilization behind at these scenic and remote New England wilderness lodges.
The hills are alive with hiking, fishing, and a bounty of farm-to-table eateries in Manchester, Vermont. And, of course, some of the best outlet shopping in New England.
Massachusetts
PJ’s Family Restaurant | Local Flavor
If any eatery owns the taste of summer on the Cape, it might just be PJ’s Family Restaurant, a Wellfleet institution.
Aboard the Maine windjammer J&E Riggin, a sailor’s life never tasted so good. Learn more, plus sailor-approved recipes for dishes like zucchini gratin and pecan sticky buns.
Massachusetts
The Most Famous Fish Shack in the World | First Light
Behind its picturesque facade, this little red building in Rockport, Massachusetts, holds meaning and memories.
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 […]
New England
Dear Yankee | July 2018
Below the Surface In “The Many Worlds of Winnipesaukee” [May/June], the photo of the vintage speedboat gets a 10. The text, however, ignores the Great Spirit weeping in despair. Winnipesaukee and its shoreline are victims of avarice, bloated egos, ostentation, and ignorance…. Sounds of songbirds and the slap of a fish jumping are lost in […]