“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.” —E.B. White (July 11, 1899–October 1, 1985) This celebrated writer and longtime Mainer lived through some of the nation’s most tumultuous times—the Great Depression and two world wars, not to mention the Cold War and […]
Catching up with the noted Vermont winemaker and Weekends with Yankee guest.
A race riot engulfed New York City that March, sparked by rumors that police had killed a Black teenager accused of shoplifting and fueled by the Depression’s staggering unemployment. Sweeping through other parts of the country were cataclysmic weather events that would force hundreds of thousands to uproot. Political battle lines hardened between FDR and those who declared his New Deal and Social Security Act to be examples of un-American socialism. Distant rumblings of militaristic countries threatening neighbors made people unsettled and anxious. This was America in 1935, when in September, Robb Sagendorph published the first issue of Yankee.
Readers respond to their favorite Yankee magazine articles.
Connie Small dreamed of being a painter but somehow became a lighthouse keeper’s wife instead.
When this courageous New Hampshire girl learned to communicate, she broke ground for Hellen Keller.
How are New England artists and entrepreneurs weathering the current storm? This week: A New Hampshire artisan gives her creativity free rein during the shutdown, while the owners of the venerable Red Lion Inn in Massachusetts look forward to reopening at long last.
The incredible story of Steven Callahan of Ellsworth, Maine, the only man in history to have survived more than a month alone and adrift in an inflatable life raft.
Sitting down with the celebrated craftsman and Weekends with Yankee featured guest.
Readers respond to their favorite Yankee magazine articles.
On July 1, 1776, the first vote on national independence from Great Britain was taken in the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. The motion carried 9–2. The next day, the vote was taken again, with all 12 delegations voting in favor, 10 of them unanimously. And as far as John Adams was concerned, this was the […]
“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo—far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” —Jodi Picoult (born May 19, 1966), from her novel My Sister’s Keeper. Though born and raised on Long Island, this best-selling writer lives with her family in Hanover, New Hampshire, and many of her 25 novels have been […]
