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“I’d walk into the house and Dave [Stephenson] would be standing there, looking up at it,” recalls Baxter Harris. “We had to figure out a way to satisfy the building code and have it look great.” What resulted is, as so often happens with seemingly impossible situations, both creative and masterly: a curving, suspended walkway […]
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!
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 […]
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 […]
In Maine, virgin soil is still tilled as I walk; oxen strainGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe to pull a large fieldstone from its place. The hard crack is heard of stone on stone– each one upon the last as walls are built up. Women in long dresses bend, pluck […]
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 […]
The Blind On Sundays too he would rise before dawnGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe and brew a pot of coffee over the fire, then call the dogs with a backwards yawn before packing up decoys, weights and wire in a wicker backpack and two homemade hods. I’d wait until […]
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 […]
