It’s been said many times that Yankee stories are different than other kinds of magazine stories. We hear that a lot from our readers, but it also resonates with the people who work at Yankee, too. We don’t do exposes, take down pieces, or big celebrity interviews, let alone Best Docs packages. Our stories have […]
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Message In a Box: Pen Pals
Pen Pals It’s been said many times that Yankee stories are different than other kinds of magazine stories. We hear that a lot from our readers, but it also resonates with the people who work at Yankee, too. We don’t do exposes, take down pieces, or big celebrity interviews, let alone Best Docs packages. Our […]
The Making of a Yankee Cover
It all begins with a lineup: a roll call of story ideas that we “line up” for each of our six issues per year. We make some final decisions on what our stories will be, we have each piece written, the text comes in, and it’s distributed to myself and Heather Marcus, our photo editor. […]
But Wait, There’s More…
Environmentally-conscious Way Out Wax isn’t only for buggy outside situations; Way Out Wax’s Clean Air product line for indoors does an equally excellent job – naturally. Using a scientifically proven technology, Clean Air really lives up to its name. It doesn’t mask offensive odors; it destroys them – fast. Don’t ask me to explain exactly […]
Finally! It’s spring (sort of) in our neck of the woods. And let’s face it, after what seemed like an endless winter here in New England, we all want to spend as much time outside as we can. Unfortunately, sharing the great outdoors with a bumper crop of blood-thirsty black flies and mosquitoes is the […]
Tough Mudder New England
As I trekked around the sprawling snow free, mud streaked landscape of Vermont’s Mount Snow last Sunday, I asked myself: what would the early New Englanders think of the spectacle in front of them? You know, the pioneering souls who scraped the earth bare of boulders each year, only to find more the next. They […]
What do you get when you fill a hotel ballroom with magazine editors? A whole lot of doubt, social awkwardness, and over analyzing. Ahhhh, the City and Regional Magazine Association Conference, how I missed you. The CRMAs, or Creamas as I like to call it (it’ll catch on, I swear), is an annual ritual for […]
Historic Family Photos
I love old photos. I feel fortunate that part of my work week often involves researching historic images, whether it’s tracking down an obscure antique, a historic building or town, or images of long gone celebrities and politicians via historical societies or online photography stock houses. There’s a beauty and a romanticism to an older […]
Starving off the Land in Cape Cod
Figuring out first-hand food I always thought of myself as a city mouse, but it wasn’t until I left Manhattan for a very rural part of Cape Cod that I realized I didn’t know jack about mice. Three years ago my husband Kevin and I traded in our Upper West Side condo for two wooded […]
I always thought of myself as a city mouse, but it wasn’t until I left Manhattan for a very rural part of Cape Cod that I realized I didn’t know jack about mice. Three years ago my husband Kevin and I traded in our Upper West Side condo for two wooded lakeside acres and a […]
Perusing the Yankee Index
Yankee has been publishing stories since 1935. Occasionally the need arises for us to go back and find one in particular. This is always a nightmare. The trouble is that Yankee Magazine doesn’t have a single, comprehensive index. For the years 1935-1978, we have a slick, professional, hardbound index that is the envy of the […]
Shelburne Farms
Hugging Lake Champlain, this operation is a working grower, as well as a dairy, inn, restaurant, and education center. We love everything these folks do, but their selection of cheddars–which have garnered multiple honors from the prestigious American Cheese Society several years running–is the thing that has us really hooked. 1611 Harbor Road, Shelburne. 802-985-8686; […]