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Stephen King Quote | Knowledge & Wisdom

Stephen King (born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine). Following on the heels of his 70th birthday this year—and the release of the big-screen adaptation of his novel It—Halloween seems a fitting time to celebrate Maine’s horror master.

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Tour de Maine | First Light

An unforgettable bike trip into the heart of a famous landscape and the lives of its people.

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Beacon of Strength | Mary’s Farm

Credit: courtesy of the author I almost drowned three times before I turned 5. The first near-miss happened when I was only 3 and my father was carrying me out to the big surf, as I had begged him to do. An enormous wave tore me from his arms and into the crashing sea. It […]

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Tomatoes | In Season

The tomato is a relative latecomer to the American table, the product of a meandering journey from its native South America through Europe and back to the Americas. Along the way, it was met with suspicion: A member of the nightshade family, it was assumed to be poisonous and used only as an ornamental plant. […]

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Yankee Classic | The Keeper

Bill Johnson’s lifelong collecting obsession has created, depending on whom you ask, an eyesore, a junkyard, or an unforgettable, unknown museum.

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Ask Historic New England | August 2017

I’m confused: The walls in the wood shed of my old New England farmhouse are made of rough wooden boards. Are these boards shiplap? It’s a hundred miles from my house to the ocean…. —Jordan T., Tiverton, RI It’s not clear when the definition of the term shiplap shifted from a type of overlapping joinery […]

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Flour Power | A Thousand Words

Credit: Mark Fleming     In the September issue of Yankee, we take a look at a new crop of grain farmers and artisan bakers who are making some of the best breads in the country. Here, Yankee senior photographer Mark Fleming tells how he made this creative portrait of Andrew Heyn of Elmore Mountain […]

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