DINING Best Companions for Your Coffee: ISABELLE ET VINCENT, Fairfield In Alsace the Koenigs ran a seventh-generation patisserie and chocolate shop; lucky for us, they moved here and opened a close facsimile a year ago. Individual pastries are all exquisite, all $4.50; notable among them are the melt-in-your-mouth mille-feuilles (napoleons), for which customers queue up […]
I am not sure if you knew this about me, but besides blogging about outdoor fun in New England for YankeeMagazine.com, I am also the communications manager for Yankee. Yes, I have a day job. I am mentioning this because I am about to plug an online survey and I thought full disclosure was in […]
The excitement of snowkiting on Lake Champlain awaits. Once you get the hang of it both you and your kite will be flying high. Read more: Snowkiting on Lake Champlain
People have been fighting about it for years, but the folks at Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana and Sally’s Apizza–two blocks from each other on Wooster Street in New Haven, Connecticut–don’t seem to notice or care that their mutual specialty, and people’s devotion to it, is the subject of this state’s well-publicized “pizza wars.” Pepe’s opened […]
When painter Carlo Pittore died in 2005 at the age of 62, he left behind a lifetime of art in his Bowdoinham, Maine, studio. Artists naturally want their art to live on after them, but the fate of most posthumous art is to be packed away, scattered to the four winds, or even disposed of. […]
See Yankee‘s travel bargains in New Hampshire Yankee recommends that you call ahead to confirm dates and times. MAY 9: AMHERST, Amherst Garden Club Annual Plant Sale. Offering more than 1,300 locally grown hardy perennials at Wilkins School. Annuals, hanging baskets, heirloom vegetable plants, unique herbs, hostas, a raffle table of garden products, garden-accessory vendors, […]
See Yankee‘s travel bargains in Vermont Yankee recommends that you call ahead to confirm dates and times. MAY 1: WOODSTOCK, Opening Day at Billings Farm and Museum. Bring the family for the launch of the museum’s 27th season and celebrate with horse-drawn wagon rides and free ice cream. 802-457-2355; billingsfarm.orgGet Our FREE Yankee Best New […]
See Yankee‘s travel bargains in Rhode Island Yankee recommends that you call ahead to confirm dates and times. MAY-OCTOBER: PROVIDENCE, WaterFire Providence. For a dozen or more Saturday evenings throughout the season, 100 bonfires will float along the darkened rivers of downtown Providence. Watch and enjoy special events–including jazz concerts and dance performances–at WaterPlace Park […]
See Yankee‘s travel bargains in Massachusetts Yankee recommends that you call ahead to confirm dates and times. APR. 29-MAY 6: WILLIAMSTOWN, NORTH ADAMS, Jazz Festival. A showing of the film Ben-Hur, accompanied by live big-band music, kicks off this event, in venues throughout both towns. Other offerings include the Intercollegiate Jazz Festival, featuring 12 regional […]
See Yankee‘s travel bargains in Maine Yankee recommends that you call ahead to confirm dates and times. MAY 15-17: FRYEBURG, Northern New England Home, Garden, and Flower Show. One of the largest events of its kind, with more than 250 exhibitors of indoor home- and garden-related products, plus outdoor exhibits, all at Fryeburg Fairgrounds. The […]
See Yankee‘s travel bargains in Connecticut. Yankee recommends that you call ahead to confirm dates and times. MAY 2-3: COLCHESTER, Zagray Farm Museum Spring Show Gas Up & Swap Meet. Step back in time at this annual event: Explore an 1873 sawmill and operating antique construction and farm equipment, plus a tractor parade, free hayrides, […]
Some of our favorite writers from the pages of Yankee write about the places they love in New England — and why they love them. Come with them and learn about Reid State Park (pictured here) in Georgetown, Maine; Wickenden Street in Providence, Rhode Island; Zealand Pond, New Hampshire; and Chatham, Massachusetts. All these and […]
