Every Christmas, families across NH are magically transported to the North Pole by train. Learn more about the Polar Express experience in this 1998 Yankee Classic.
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A Blue-and-White Christmas
What if your faith doesn’t include Christmas as a celebration? Naomi Shulman ponders a blue-and-white Christmas in this touching essay.
A walk and talk with Steve Moffatt, Christmas tree grower.
In his new book, Vanishing Vermonters, writer and photographer Peter Miller both honors Vermont and captures a side of his home state he fears we may be losing.
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5 Classic Yankee Christmas Stories
New England is a special place to be during the Christmas season. Here are 5 favorite Christmas classics from the Yankee archives.
Being the town Santa is not all ho-ho-ho and Merry Christmas. A report from the Yankee archives explains the other side of the beard.
Credit: Paula Lerner It’s a long road to Rangeley. Route 4 twists through miles of thickly forested land, rising and falling as it heads north from Augusta, and on winter nights snowbanks narrow the road, shining white in the headlights, tunneling through the darkness. Surrounded by the mountains and lakes of western Maine, Rangeley has […]
Credit: Tim Tomkinson I was 7, and I was a Sugarplum Fairy. Standing backstage in my sequined blue tutu, I was awestruck — not by the spotlights, but by the hundreds of tiny colored bulbs on the enormous Christmas tree at the center of the stage. A teacher whispered frantically behind me: I was missing […]
A nostalgic remembrance of New England Christmases past from the Yankee archives by editor-in-chief Judson D. Hale.
Why is there an extra doorknob embedded in the trim at my front entry? —Linda C., Rochester, NH A small knob in the trim next to an entry door is likely the pulling mechanism from the kind of mechanical doorbell that existed before electric doorbells became popular in the early 20th century. Historic New England […]
When you own livestock, a part of you is always with them no matter where you go. Especially in winter.
DUBLIN, NH (November 2017)— New England’s best locally made food products are celebrated in the fifth annual Yankee Editors’ Choice Food Awards 2017, as featured in a multipage layout in the magazine’s November/December issue. Beautifully photographed on location at presenting sponsor Simon Pearce’s flagship location in Quechee, VT, the 10 honorees were chosen by Yankee […]