By Polly Bannister Home and Garden Editor, Yankee Magazine I’ve lived in the Monadnock region for 30 years — almost long enough to consider myself local. In my migration around the area over the years, I’ve lived in seven of the 40 or so towns that consider themselves located in the shadow of the mountain […]
By Debbie Despres Administrative Assistant to the President, Yankee Publishing The beauty of Pack Monadnock in Peterborough’s Miller State Park for me is that I can make the round-trip hike in about an hour, and know that I got in a great workout for the day. The beauty of a fall hike up Pack Monadnock […]
By Debbie Despres Administrative Assistant to the President, Yankee Publishing The pumpkin ice cream appears on the menu sometime in September. Yes, I can manage to avoid the temptation of Kimball Farms’ ice cream in Jaffrey most of the summer, but the lure of their perfectly creamy, perfectly spiced pumpkin ice cream calls to me […]
By Justin Shatwell Assistant Editor, Yankee Magazine Not a native New Englander, I never went on a childhood vacation to Mt. Monadnock. I first saw the lonely peak as a grown man when I moved to Keene a year ago. From a distance it’s a rare beauty — solitary and serene — and for a […]
By Annie B. Copps Food Editor, Yankee Magazine Most people like to hike up Monadnock. I do, too, but I think it’s the summit of Skatutakee that I prefer. It’s a moderate hike, which is great if you like to haul a substantial picnic and cameras — which I do. The best part is that […]
By Mel Allen Editor, Yankee Magazine It can be a bit of a local sport, deciding where exactly to find the absolute best view of Monadnock. I’m here to tell you where. Driving from the east, make your first left past Yankee‘s red buildings onto Upper Jaffrey Road. Drive a few miles, until just before […]
Eight years ago, dentist Steve Seigars saw a NOVA episode on 12th-century trebuchets — and it changed his life. These giant catapult-like machines, once used to lay siege to medieval castles, are essentially first-class levers, like seesaws, with a counterweight on one end and a sling holding a projectile on the other. Today they’re used […]
It looks a little medieval, but for unusual fall sports, take a look at Yankee Siege, the Greenfield, NH, pumpkin-tossing catapult. The fun begins Oct. 3-4, 2009, and continues Saturdays and Sundays through Oct.31 and Nov. 1. Read more: Pumpkin Tossing Trebuchet
The secret to savoring New Hampshire’s Monadnock region is to drive slowly and stop often.
Yankee classic from August 1991 Those who first climbed Mount Monadnock for fun in the early 1800s probably went in search of those blueberries of which Thoreau wrote. Hikers today can still scale Monadnock’s slopes and return with buckets brimming with berries. There may be easier places to find that azure fruit, but perhaps none […]
Yankee classic from March 1999 On May 1, 1992, Larry Davis climbed Mount Monadnock. He liked it so much that he did it the next day, too. And the next. And the next. And every day after that. In fact, barring any mischance between the day of this writing and March 1, 1999, Larry Davis […]
Yankee classic from November 1990 You’ve never heard of Eliot Elanman. It’s not even his real name. I came to know him during the two years my wife and I were resident-managers in a halfway house in Boston, Massachusetts. The people who came to live with us were mostly manic-depressives or alcoholics or drug addicts. […]
