A lot of letters come to me, all kinds of letters. I often read that the handwritten letter is dead. Everything happens now on e-mail. Probably that is our future but in the meantime, there are reasons why all people don’t use e-mail. Not so long ago, I received a letter. The back of the […]
SLIDE SHOW: New England stone walls by William Hubbell, from Good Fences: A Pictorial History of New England’s Stone Walls (Down East Books, 2006; $29.95) When geologist Robert Thorson came to work at the University of Connecticut in 1984, he was smitten by stone walls. In all his travels–from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest to […]
Anadama Bread Winter was the worst. The farm windows iced inside, wind howled down off the upper field; through the gauze curtains it kissed our foreheads, noses buried in featherbed crazy-quilts. Wooden spindle framed our heads. It was too cold for ceiling mice. We always had to pee just before dawn. When the […]
The Rise and Fall of Eddie Perez Hartford’s Mayor on the Hot Seat I don’t know Eddie Perez, the embattled mayor of Hartford, Connecticut. But when you assign a story, edit the story, work with the photographer, see the story in layout, write a title, then see the story in the June 2006 Yankee (Eddie […]
NOTE: In memory of Pulitzer-Prize winning author and New Englander John Updike, we share this short story from Yankee Magazine September 1985. Fulham, with a history of hypertension, had taken early retirement from his brokerage firm and managed his own investments and those of a favored few old clients in an upstairs room of his […]
Saturday night I gave a speech to the Hillsborough, New Hampshire, Chamber of Commerce. It was their annual awards evening, where a business of the year and citizen of the year would be recognized, and generally a time when all the members could gather and sit at long tables in the American Legion Hall, have […]
Plum Island was deserted except for a slightly offbeat mother, her twelve-year-old daughter and four young sons, including five-year-old twins. I was that mother. If there were another whose children were running wild and free on the island that Easter Sunday, she was nowhere in sight. A winter chill hung on the breeze. Ripples furrowed […]
I once read in a guidebook: “Of all the natural regions of the United States, New England is the smallest, the most compact and convenient to get around in, the most homogeneous… ” For four decades now, I’ve lived and worked in New England, the land from which America evolved. There are few nooks and […]
Tim Llewellyn photographed Barack Obama on the trail that led through New Hampshire to Washington, D.C. “From Manchester to Berlin…at the ‘Yes, We Can’ speech in Nashua…I had the best seat in the house,” he says. Click below for a slide show of those photos. Read Tim Llewellyn’s text See more Tim Llewellyn photos: FOURL.com […]
POLITICAL AFFILIATION Cianci: Spoke at Republican National Conventions, wanted to be Ronald Reagan’s running mate in 1980, and knows Dick Cheney personally. Cicilline: Cofounded a College Democrats chapter at Brown University with John F. Kennedy Jr., was a delegate to a Democratic National Convention, and is friendly with Hillary Clinton. BEST RUDY GIULIANI MOMENT Cianci: […]
Mike Stanton’s biography of former Providence mayor Buddy Cianci is the basis of the forthcoming film, The Prince of Providence. Read Yankee‘s newest interview with Buddy Cianci, “What Does It Take to Make a Comeback?“ In these two Yankee Classics, Mike Stanton interviews two city mayors, Buddy Cianci’s successor, David Cicilline, in Providence, RI, and […]
From Yankee Magazine March 2005 THWAP! David Cicilline, the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, drives a gloved fist into his sparring partner’s gut. SMACK! WAP! BAP! A pair of red Everlasts flashes in the dim early-morning light. Twice a week, Cicilline begins his day in a boxing ring, channeling the pent-up frustration of governing this […]
