Yankee food editor Annie B. Copps suggests these — meatloaf, chicken and rice, pancakes, and macaroni and cheese. Tell us yours in the comment box below. Everyone can use a little comfort!
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Winter in New England might be the season you look forward to all year, or it might be the season you endure, but no matter — we’ve got all of the tips, treats, and must-see places to make winter fun all season long. Grab your mittens and let’s go! #1 Build An IglooFirst, brush up […]
I almost ran out of wood last year. In the middle of winter I had to scramble and find some good, dry wood, just about as easy as finding ripe peaches at that time of year. I sometimes think that the best way to save on heat might be to just go to Florida. I […]
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VIDEO: Family Meals on a Budget
Yankee food editor, Annie B. Copps, introduces family meals on a budget on the Today Show‘s “Managing Today” series. She shares her recipes below for extending a pork roast into stir fry, sandwiches, and ravioli, for example. Click here for more pork recipes and for a special “presidential pork” recipe from one of Yankee‘s Best […]
Santa Claus will come to town, the herald angels will sing, and the bells will jingle all the way. Those seasonal sounds have been struck in December at Symphony Hall dating back to 1974, when Arthur Fiedler led the Boston Pops. And it starts all over again this December 11 through 28, when the Boston […]
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Maine Reflections
In Maine, virgin soil is still tilled as I walk; oxen strainto pull a large fieldstone from its place.The hard crack is heard of stone on stone–Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe each one upon the last as walls are built up.Women in long dresses bend, pluck blackberriesfrom the sun. […]
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Good Bones
I went down to Connecticut for Thanksgiving with my cousins. We were many and there wasn’t much left over by the time the roasting pan had been scrubbed and the last counter wiped down. But there was the carcass and I begged to bring it home with me, a request that was gladly granted. Everyone […]
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Poetry of K. A. Markee
The Blind On Sundays too he would rise before dawnand brew a pot of coffee over the fire,then call the dogs with a backwards yawnGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe before packing up decoys, weights and wirein a wicker backpack and two homemade hods.I’d wait until I could not see […]
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Cape Cod: A Place and a Dream
I think I must have been about eight years old the first time I felt the Atlantic Ocean at the Cape call to me. I remember that particular trip so well: the first whiff of the briny air, the turn up a sandy dirt road, and my mother saying, “Listen you can hear the ocean […]
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The Cape House
The corner house on Cove Street was a castle atop a hill. Overlooking the bay, it was a summer home to my family for over 60 years. My great-grandpa had originally purchased the Victorian home with his best friend. Together their families grew with the home and new generations arose. Despite the creaky box-spring beds […]
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Rhode Island: Boys’ Reformatory
Rhode Island Paranormal Research Team, Scituate, Rhode Island The group collected some very eerie EVPs (electronic voice phenomena) at Saconawa Prison, which used to be a boys’ reformatory. “We had a recording of Ray and Barbara setting up the equipment, but in the background, you can hear someone saying, ‘Get out!’ in a very ominous […]
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VIDEO: Boston’s Nutcracker Dancers
Seeing Boston Ballet’s The Nutcracker for the first time is a special memory for writer Annie Graves. If it made such an impact on a child in the audience, what about the children who perform onstage? Yankee‘s Justin Shatwell talks with one of the girls who played Clara in Boston. Backstage photos of last year’s […]