Things that helped brighten our week, in the hopes that they will help brighten yours.
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In over 40 years of writing about New Englanders, Yankee editor Mel Allen calls the story of Wil Smith and his daughter Olivia the most inspirational.
I am writing this on a blue-sky morning, the day before the first day of spring. In an ordinary year, that would be a touchstone for all of us. Time to plan gardens, to think about summer trips. But this is not an ordinary year. We are all at a place where we are feeling […]
Lives are changed when a young asylum seeker in Maine asks a teacher to help him win a national poetry recitation.
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Life in the Kingdom | The Fix
On getting water from a well without digging too deep into one’s pockets.
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The Shark Detective
Greg Skomal has been tailing great white sharks for more than a decade to unravel the many mysteries they raise—including how to deal with their growing numbers off Cape Cod.
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Dear Yankee | March/April 2020
Readers respond to their favorite Yankee magazine articles.
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Sweet Spots | Inside Yankee
This is how spring sneaks up on us in New England. The snow softens, and skiers discover March is the kindest month of all. The first songbirds land in our yards, and we think … It’s coming. By early March, we see sap buckets fastened to maples, plastic tubing threading through the forests, smoke pouring from sugarhouses.
The coveted patch is simple enough—red and green with the emblem of a pine tree in its center—but it proclaims its wearers to be the stuff of legend: Registered Maine Guides. Years ago prospective guides just needed to prove outdoors expertise to a local game warden. Today they face a few more hurdles, including choosing […]
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Mark Synnott | Uncommon Sense
“We all have our own El Capitan. If [Alex Honnold] can free-climb El Capitan, what could we accomplish, if we truly set our minds to it?” —Mark Synnott (born December 11, 1969). This Jackson, New Hampshire–based climber and journalist notched a New York Times best-seller with the tale of his friend Honnold’s world-famous feat, […]
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5 Questions with Author John Hodgman
Vacationland author and Weekends with Yankee guest weighs in on growing up, uncomfortable Maine beaches, and the indignities of middle age.
“I don’t want no sideshow,” said Larry Carrara of Shrewsbury, Vermont, when a lovesick moose (Josh) fixated on one of his cows (Jessica) for 76 days in 1986, but that’s exactly what he got.