THE TAG ON THE little fellow’s basket there on our front cover has a note inside it. It reads like this, and it is a particular message just for you, your family, and your friends. Though man has the faculty of tradition, according to Walter Lippman, it is an uncertain one. “Oftener than not he has been unable […]
BOTH THE NAME and the purpose of Mr. Sagendorph’s new magazine, Yankee, have a strong appeal to me, personally and officially, and I am glad to say a word of welcome, in behalf of the state of New Hampshire, to this new arrival among us. May it live long and prosper and “grow up with […]
DUBLIN, NH (November 2018)— In the six years since Yankee launched the Editors’ Choice Food Awards, they’ve witnessed a flowering of the New England food landscape that goes beyond the restaurant scene right to our own tables and pantries. More artisan foods are coming to market, finding a local audience, going national and even earning […]
Celebrating New England’s best cheeses, chocolates, jams, coffees, and other gift-worthy edibles in Yankee Magazine‘s annual food awards.
Already a college football phenom, Doug Flutie became a star in 1984 with a Hail Mary pass that many New Englanders still talk about.
Reaching out to girls who have lost their mothers, Cara Belvin is on a deeply personal mission to help them open up to others and reconnect with joy. Learn more about Cara and her nonprofit EmpowerHer.
Being the town Santa is not all ho-ho-ho and Merry Christmas! A report from the other side of the beard in this 1992 Yankee Classic from Donald Hall.
Five wheelbarrows are scattered haphazardly around a large ground-floor workshop in an eccentric, circular building in the woods just a two-minute walk from Maine’s rocky coastline. None of the wheelbarrows looks like the others, and frankly, none looks much like a wheelbarrow. They’re all handmade, four of them by a man named Bill Coperthwaite. (The […]
Learn trivia about one of America’s oldest, scenic parkways, the Merritt Parkway.
Credit: Kevin Day Photography “You should be able to count on the goodwill and generosity of others to survive … and by ‘others’ I mean our society and our society safety net. ‘Others’ is all of us.” —Celeste Ng (born July 30, 1980). Exploring ideas of race, class, and family, this Cambridge, Massachusetts, author first […]
With family away, life during a cold snap is distilled to the pleasure of chores, the warmth of cats, and a ski trek across the land.
Credit: Clare Owen/i2iart Those of us born in December often arrive late, or so say the old wives, who claim that these fiery infants aren’t anxious to come forth into the cold world. I was apparently not interested in that cold entry, as I was born on December 10 rather than November 14, the day […]
