Travel And Lifestyle Public Television Series From WGBH And Yankee Magazine Airs Nationwide BOSTON, MA (January 29, 2018) – This April, the popular travel and lifestyle national public television series Weekends with Yankee returns for a second season to explore more of the hidden gems, spectacular landscapes, fun adventures and delectable tastes of New England. […]
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Bean to Bar | Chocolate Recipes
On the trail of New England’s newest batch of premium-chocolate makers, plus four gourmet chocolate recipes.
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Suited to a T | Timeless New England
Though the novelty of “horseless carriages” had largely worn off by 1914, the sight of Virgil White motoring through Newport, New Hampshire, that February caught the attention of the media. Under a published photo of White’s unusual conveyance, parked on a snowy roadway and filled with bundled-up passengers, was this wry description: “It appears to […]
In memory of Yankee’s Edie Clark, we look back on our 2018 tribute after she said good-bye to the historic homestead where she found “the best, most rewarding kind of love.”
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Looking Back on Our Town
Eighty years after Thornton Wilder wrote Our Town, the classic play still lives in the small town of Peterborough, New Hampshire.
We asked veteran Maine musher Polly Mahoney: What makes a top dog?
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Storm Chaser | Winter Comforts
When I was in my twenties, I spent the better part of my leisure time at a certain bar in Cambridge, Massachusetts, situated in a basement-level space on that somewhat charmless stretch of Mass. Ave. between Harvard and Central squares. It was called the Cellar, and it possessed all the elements of a good cold-weather New […]
From ice castles and ice harvests to boat shows and film festivals, these New England winter events are well worth the drive.
Decades after Bowdoin graduate Robert Peary first staked his claim, the path to the North Pole stills runs through his alma mater at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum.
Libby’s Bistro & Saalt Pub, a North Country standby, brings a taste of the world to rural New Hampshire.
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Peak Chic | Up Close
Tom Padham suiting up for his job in winter is a little like a firefighter donning turnout gear. Both must protect themselves from head to toe against an extreme environment, which for Padham is the Northeast’s highest summit (where last January saw 127 mph gusts and a wind chill of -65). True, Padham can take […]
Credit: courtesy of the Library of Congress “Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.” —Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Though she wrote hundreds of plays, novels, stories, and poems during her lifetime, this Massachusetts author is best known for Little Women. That novel, which turns 150 this year, […]