More often than not, New England Flag & Banner flies under the radar, but this Watertown, Massachusetts, company, the country’s largest producer of custom, hand-sewn appliqué banners and flags, is responsible for some of New England’s most iconic sports imagery. Appliqué, a technique in which colored fabrics are layered, with sections cut away to reveal […]
History
Design historians usually give credit for the evolution of wicker furniture in America to a grocer named Cyrus Wakefield, who discovered a use for the strips of rattan he’d seen on the wharves in Boston.
How many of these immortal phrases do you recognize? “Taxation without representation is tyranny.” —James Otis (1725–83) Colonial lawyer and member of the Massachusetts provincial assembly “What a glorious morning is this!” —Sam Adams (1722–1803) One of the “Founding Fathers” of the Revolution, upon hearing the sound of musket fire at Lexington, Massachusetts, April […]
History
A Laugh Worth Remembering
Welcome to the October 2015 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, N.H. for the last 80 years. A Laugh Worth Remembering It seems like yesterday… All my life (so far), I’ve had a tendency to remember laughs better […]
New England Innovations | People and Deeds That Have Inspired a Nation The mosaic-making robot doesn’t have fingers, just a single suction cup that has a sure touch with glass and ceramic tiles. It plucks them from a tray and places them into a 12-inch-by-12-inch grid, creating abstract patterns or recognizable images. Standing next to […]
When the townspeople of Craftsbury, Vermont, hang out at the general store, the line blurs between “store” and “story,” a scenario little changed since America’s first country store opened in Adamsville, Rhode Island, in 1788. Little more than a century has passed since folks hitched horses off the porch and rambled into the Craftsbury General Store […]
“Humor can be dissected, as a frog can,” E. B. White famously said, “but the thing dies in the process.” Nevertheless, throwing caution to the wind (along with some lint picked off an old sweater), we examine here the contributions made to the field by Yankee humor, which was anaesthetized using extracts of Town Meeting […]
The Glenwood cookstove was America’s first true home appliance. Learn how gradually (very gradually) Yankee contributor Edie Clark learned that she could do many things on this stove that she couldn’t do on a modern stove.
There’s Just Something About Maine… But which Maine do you mean?
From a Massachusetts bakery to an Alabama goat farm, these days, the chance to chance to change your life as the owner of a new business could require nothing more than a brief essay, minimal entrance fee, and a bit of luck. “Essay-for-a-business” contests have been popping up all over the country in 2015, and […]
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Frisbee | New England’s Gifts
1871 year when Frisbie Pie Company was founded in Bridgeport, CT 3 disc toys invented by Fred Morrison before the Frisbee (Whirlo-Way, Pluto Platter, Flyin-Saucer) seven players on an Ultimate Frisbee teamGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe 100,000,000 Frisbees manufactured 1957–1994 80+ countries in which Ultimate Frisbee is played 74 […]
7/3/1916 The fateful day when “Chubby” Woodman of Essex, Mass., became the first person to batter-fry a clam 5,000 Guests at the biggest clambake Woodman’s ever hosted (1938 in Marietta, Ohio) 0 Tweaks to Chubby’s original fried-clam recipe 300+ Family members who have worked at Woodman’s since 1916 1,620 Clams Woodman’s fried on a busy […]