From thrilling ski contests to tasty food festivals, we’ve rounded up regional events that are worth the drive.
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The New Makers
Their skills are as old as New England itself; their materials, timeless. But there’s a modern gleam that runs through the work of these 10 artisans.
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Taking the Wheel
A novice boat captain in Stony Creek, Connecticut, learns to navigate the choppiest waters of her young life.
Remembering Boston’s Great Molasses Flood, a freak accident that still fascinates scientists and storytellers a century later.
A pair of simple and delicious Christmas cookie recipes from Repertoire, the first solo cookbook from food writer and Vermont native Jessica Battilana.
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Big Plan on Campus
Olin College, a little engineering school in Needham, Massachusetts, is retooling higher education.
Celebrating eight decades of classic holiday covers from Yankee Magazine.
As his sons grow into young men, the author ponders a future without them nearby.
The Worcester fire of 1999 was dangerous, but the kind the firefighters fought several times each year. Then something happened, and everything when black. Learn more in this 2000 Yankee classic.
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Dreams and Observations
by The Collector THE EDITOR OF THIS department has been as badly bitten by the collecting bug as any other true Yankee, though his special field is not mentioned in the trade magazines. He doesn’t know Stoddard glass from Keene pottery, but he is a specialist in his line. Nose a-twitch and ears cocked like […]
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Book Lady of the Air
by Maude W. Schrader Mrs. Schrader, now lecturing at Chautauqua, N. Y., will be remembered by many not only for her broadcasts on Massachusetts radio stations, but also for many women’s clubs activities. She “gets’’ Monadnock from her home on Norway Hill in Hancock. GIVE ME THE HILLS and a book and contentment is mine. […]
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Shoe Industry in New Hampshire
by W. B Grover THERE ARE OLDER INDUSTRIES in New Hampshire than that of making footwear, but few of the State’s principal businesses can boast of a more spectacular growth nor of more widespread investment of capital. Although less than one hundred years old in the White Mountain State, the shoe industry has given employment […]