Do you ever stop and wonder what it is that you were put on this earth to do? For Florence Griswold, the answer was art.
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Trivia and tidbits about a fabled New England lake.
“There’s nothing magical about bringing about change … Imagine a world where everybody who cared about doing something to better the planet volunteered a couple of hours a month. Imagine what the world would be like.” — Jody Williams (born 1950 in Rutland, Vermont). One of the most influential peace activists in the world, Jody […]
Comes late summer, come the country fairs. They appear along the branches of rural roads and byways like the very harvest fruits they display. They are perhaps the oldest village shows on earth, these local contests and exhibits of what man and earth and season can produce. But with their golden age clearly in the […]
Building a homestead taxes both body and mind.
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New Territory | Inside Yankee
The first story I published in Yankee was in 1977. I wrote it in longhand on yellow lined paper, then typed it on my gray manual Smith Corona. If I made a mistake (and I made many), I’d slip a sliver of correction tape over the mangled word and make things right. I typed thousands […]
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Dear Yankee July/August 2016
Connections Just after receiving my first issue of Yankee, I had to write to express my gratitude for helping me reconnect to my New England roots, and I have my cousin Sue C. to thank also. She’s a longtime and dedicated reader of your magazine, and I can see why! My family moved from New […]
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Delphiniums | Beautiful Blooms
A great-aunt’s legacy lives on through a packet of delphinium seeds.
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Dear Yankee | June 2016
Our favorite recent letters, Facebook posts, Instagram comments, and tweets. Victory for Pipeline Opponents On April 21, residents in southern New Hampshire and parts of Massachusetts awoke to the surprising and welcome news that energy giant Kinder Morgan had suspended its plan to build a nearly 200-mile pipeline, from a point west of Albany, New […]
For several years I made a region outside of New England my home. There was a lot to miss, but more than anything, I longed for the summers. I was landlocked and had no outlet from the oppressive humidity that defined the warmer months. Trips to the shore and the sweet smell of the sea-salt […]
“I don’t care if I’m beautiful; I don’t care what I am on the outside. It isn’t about the outside.” —Donna Summer (1948–2012). Famous under her stage name of Donna Summer, she was born LaDonna Adrian Gaines in Boston and raised in the Mission Hill neighborhood by her father, a butcher, and her mother, a […]
The Allen sisters, Frances and Mary, found uncommon beauty in the people and landscape of Deerfield, Massachusetts. For three decades, from the end of the 19th century into the early 1920s, the photographs made by two sisters, Frances Stebbins Allen and Mary Electa Allen, bathed the people and landscape in and around their home in Deerfield, […]