By Lucille Rines Senior Production Artist, Yankee Publishing A nice destination we always go to in the fall is Windy Hill Orchard in Greenville, New Hampshire. The farm offers tractor hayrides to take you out to the trees, where you can pick your own apples (you can also buy bags of apples already picked), plus […]
By Janice Stillman Editor, The Old Farmer’s Almanac I love autumn in the Monadnock region because it’s harvest time at the Community Gardens in Peterborough. It’s not commercial, but we welcome visitors. Several months of weeding, feeding, mulching, and sharing advice and ideas wind both up and down, as I hustle to pick and put […]
By Francie Von Mertens Peterborough Berry picking lures me out, adding a sense of productivity to my wanderings. Wild berries: June’s strawberries and July’s raspberries are small but flavor-packed. August and September’s blueberries and blackberries are abundant enough to bring home in quantity. Wild cranberry relish is a Thanksgiving tradition. Berries from the freezer show […]
By Nan Fornal Peterborough When I want to show guests — especially from the city — the essence of country life, I take them to Pickity Place. On a winding country road, just after the pavement ends, we take a left at the welcoming sign. There, an old red Cape houses a unique restaurant. We […]
The flag endeavors a typical New England winter.
By Jack Burnett Copy Editor, The Old Farmer’s Almanac The Peak into Peterborough (as in “peak” foliage) festival on the Saturday after Columbus Day is always fun, with its variety of events in the streets and river parks in one of Frommer’s Budget Travel‘s “10 Coolest Towns in America, 2006.”
By Heidi Stonehill Senior Associate Editor, The Old Farmer’s Almanac I love Harrisville, both for its natural beauty and for its small-town appeal, with quaint brick buildings: the church, the library, the old mill … As I drive home from shopping in Keene, I often take the back way on Chesham Road and then on […]
By Barbara Hall Web Editor, Yankee Magazine Last time, we brought home these treasures: small brass hanging planter yellow charger (platter) painted doorstop carnival glass candlesticks yellow pottery bowl berry-picking box brass bell Our favorite flea market is at the Cheshire Fairgrounds in Swanzey, New Hampshire, and we think of each visit as a treasure […]
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 […]
