By Sara E. Pratt Lyndeborough Start with breakfast or lunch at the Melting Pot in the town of Wilton. After exploring the myriad downtown shops and taking a peek inside the 1886 brick Town Hall Theatre head west out of town on Route 101. Pass the junction with Route 31 South and begin looking for […]
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Underwater Pumpkin Carving Challenge
By Jennifer Kahn Consumer Marketing Manager/New Business, Yankee Publishing Carving a pumpkin underwater is a bit of a challenge. To start with, you usually wear thick neoprene gloves, so your manual dexterity is reduced. Also, pumpkins are completely full of air, and one of the carve-off rules is that the pumpkin can’t have any cuts […]
Stoddard: Blueberries on Pitcher Mountain
By Heather MarcusPhoto Editor, Yankee Magazine When I was a child, my mother took my sister and me up a small peak to pick sweet, wild blueberries every year. Somehow we managed to pick enough berries for a pie or two, but most of the berries ended up in our very full bellies. I had […]
Peterborough: Harlow’s Pub
By Dave Weisberg New Media Manager, Yankee Publishing Hidden away on the corner of School and Grove Street in the center of Peterborough is a classic European-style pub called Harlow’s. The warm, cozy atmosphere and the mix of the crowd gives Harlow’s a family atmosphere, while the small outdoor deck and seating area makes it […]
Vermont Country Store
This photo taken on October 7, 2007 by Mike and Nancy Garner of Birdsboro, Berks County, PA at the Vermont Country Store in Weston, VT.
Two-Wheeling in the Shadow of Monadnock
By JD Hale Publisher, Yankee Magazine For those of you who are cycling enthusiasts, there are many levels of rides and beautiful roads to enjoy in the Monadnock region. Just yesterday there were about 15 cyclists in our Dublin parking lot unloading their bikes out of two pickup trucks. They were a 65+ age group, […]
By Jamie Trowbridge President, Yankee Publishing There are many lakes and ponds in the region, and they all have public access. The town of Harrisville has at least 10 ponds. Even if you don’t want to go into or onto the water, the ponds in Harrisville are beautiful to look at. The center of the […]
Henniker: Let the Book Browsing Begin
By Eileen Terrill Managing Editor, Yankee Magazine One of my favorite fall jaunts in the Monadnock region is a weekend excursion to Old Number Six Book Depot in Henniker (603-428-3334). With 160,000 volumes, it maintains the biggest stock of any used bookstore in New Hampshire. But half the fun is getting there — up over […]
Mystic Seaport, CT: Scale Model Version
Slide show: Mystic River Scale Model. Inside a modest white building on the northwestern edge of the green at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut, you’ll find an homage to the human need to tinker, to our quest for unachievable perfection. In the early fall of 2005 on my first visit to the museum, I looked […]
Greenville, New Hampshire: Apple Orchard
By Rachel Kipka Senior Production Artist, Yankee Publishing It’s way in the corner of the Monadnock region, but it’s definitely well worth the drive: Washburn’s Windy Hill Orchard in Greenville, New Hampshire. Take your whole family on a tractor-drawn hayride into a huge apple orchard. You can choose from lots of varieties of apples, stop […]
Greenville: A Wonderful Family Orchard
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 […]
Harvest Time at the Community Gardens
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 […]