73 years the Frantzis family has owned Quassy Amusement Park in Middlebury, CT 35 mph: top speed of the 80-year-old Yankee Cannonball, oldest roller coaster in the U.S., now at Canobie Lake ParkGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe 177,408 cookies devoured each year by reindeer at Santa’s Village in Jefferson, […]
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Welcome to the June 2010 edition of “Jud’s New England Journal,” the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, editor-in-chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, New Hampshire. What to Do When Your Car Steering Wheel Comes Off Sure, it’s unlikely. But it’s best to be prepared There’s been a lot of chatter […]
Welcome to the May 2010 edition of “Jud’s New England Journal,” the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, editor-in-chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, New Hampshire. Learning the New England Language Trouble is, as soon as you’ve identified a rule, you discover more exceptions than examples. For instance, you might hear […]
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Water: New England Numbers
10 miles: width of Lake Champlain between Burlington, VT, and Port Douglas, NY, its widest point 1,300 lakes and ponds in New Hampshire 6,000 lakes and ponds in MaineGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe 4 feet: Cape Cod National Seashore land lost each year to erosion 316 feet: maximum depth […]
There are, of course, a lot more than two signs of spring in New England about now. But these are my favorites… After the various early signals of spring in New England — the Boston Flower Show, spotting a robin among snow patches on the lawn, and gathering pussy willows for the dining room table […]
Read More: New England Numbers: Hurricane of ’38 Wind That Shook the World $308 million total price tag from devastation caused by Hurricane of ’38 1,100 deaths in Massachusetts during July 1911 heat wave, with temps topping 110 degrees in BostonGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe 94 deaths and 1,300 […]
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AUDIO: Andrea Phillips Interview
MORE: Yankee‘s interview with Captain Richard Phillips Audio Interview: Captain Phillips _________ Captain Richard Phillips jokes that his wife, Andrea, had it harder at home than he did with the pirates. He may be right. In this interview with Yankee editor Mel Allen, Andrea Phillips describes the bonds of love and faith that kept her […]
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My Favorite Survival Story
“Please, tell us about the Gloucester, Massachusetts, guy who rowed across the Atlantic Ocean without any hands or feet.” That’s a typical request I receive in the mail (or e-mail) from time to time. But most people don’t have it quite straight. Yes, a Gloucester fisherman by the name of Howard Blackburn did row across […]
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AUDIO: Captain Richard Phillips
MORE: Yankee‘s interview with Captain Richard Phillips AUDIO Interview: Andrea Phillips _________ In April 2009, the world watched while Captain Richard Phillips of Underhill, Vermont, was held hostage by pirates off the East African Coast. Listen to his accounts in interviews with Yankee editor Mel Allen. Captain Phillips on the Business of Piracy: In Somalia, […]
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Boston Red Sox Team Uniforms
More Red Sox lore: More about Uniforms Baseball Collectibles Red Sox Fun Facts The number worn by more Red Sox than any other is #15, worn by 52 players. Until the 1931 season, the Red Sox didn’t wear uniform numbers. Red Sox in pinstripes? For much of the period between 1912 and 1931, both home […]
Whatever happened to the Old Man of the Mountain in NH? It’s been years since its collapse, but its fate still hangs in the balance.
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February, a Month of Questions
Welcome to the February 2010 edition of “Jud’s New England Journal,” the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, editor-in-chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, New Hampshire. To most of us, the month of February means Washington’s birthday (celebrated this year on the 15th, although he was born on the 22nd), Valentine’s […]