Welcome to the October 2016 edition of Jud’s New England Journal, the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, the Editor-in-Chief of Yankee Magazine, published in Dublin, New Hampshire since September 1935, and The Old Farmer’s Almanac published since 1792 in Massachusetts and then, since 1939, in Dublin. It’s Fun To Believe In Ghosts […]
Superstitions are actually so deeply ingrained in New England character that we seldom recognize them — or, for sure, admit to them. And I guess I’d have to include myself in that category.
“Charlie on the MTA” was written for the 1948 campaign of Boston’s Progressive Party candidate for mayor, but the phrase means something else today.
The good news: You’re taking a kid to college in Boston. The bad news: You’re taking a kid to college in Boston.
We took a look through history at summer gold-medal Olympians that have called New England home. Here are a few of our favorites.
On the subject of Boston and Bostonians… Probably “snobby” is too harsh a description. “Proud” might be better.
Did the pilgrims eat popcorn? We asked Plimoth Plantation for the truth about this common popcorn myth.
Sure, It’s Only 47½ Miles Long, But… Don’t get Rhode Islanders started on the subject of their state. That is, unless you have plenty of time.
Baldwin Coolidge found inspiration in the comings and goings of Woods Hole scientists and students. The intersection of art and science came together when Baldwin Coolidge (1845–1928) brought his heavy, large-format cameras and dry-plate glass negatives to the dock on Quissett Harbor in 1897, at a time when Woods Hole, a village in the town […]
Five years after the devastation of 2011’s Tropical Storm Irene, those who lived through it in Wilmington, Vermont, remember both what they lost and what they found.
After decades of whispers, our analyst puts the Nutmeg State on the couch for a little identity therapy. Is Connecticut really New England? We think you’ll approve of the answer.
When the first volume of Robert B. Thomas’s Farmer’s Almanac appeared in October 1792, George Washington was just finishing his first term as president. That same month, the cornerstone of the White House was laid in the newly formed federal district of “the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia.” From the start, the […]
