More than 6 million Americans are adoptees; surveys indicate that at least half of them search for a birth parent’s identity at some point in their lives. Laws governing an adoptee’s degree of access to his or her original birth certificate and adoption file vary from state to state. From the 1920s until the 1970s, […]
Dear Rosalie, It has taken me almost 40 years to finally ask about you. For years now, I’ve had all the papers my adoptive parents kept. The papers call me simply “baby boy #3331.” They came from the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers, as you knew it then, in Burlington, Vermont. In the bundle […]
I know in most instances you’ll glance at an editor’s letter and zip by. I’m the new editor of Yankee, and I hope you’ll stay with me a moment longer. From the time I published my first story in this magazine, more than 300 issues have left our Dublin, New Hampshire, offices, each one different […]
Ben Hewitt is a regular contributor to Yankee Magazine, former Eastern editor at SKIING magazine, and a devotee of winter sun, soft snow, and freshly groomed trails. Here are his picks for the best ski cruisers in New England, in no particular order. 1. Cannon, Vista Way Stunning views of Franconia Notch combine with a […]
House care answers from the largest heritage organization in the country. My sister recently bought a home in western Massachusetts that was built around 1830. The most interesting discovery about the place was that the original location of the kitchen was in the basement. Was that typical of homes from that era? Why? Basement kitchens […]
Did you know snowy owls can live up to 32 years? Learn more tidbits and trivia about one of New England’s favorite owls. 560 snowy owls that Mass. Audubon’s Norman Smith has caught in the vicinity of Logan Airport over the past 32 years 10/22 earliest arrival of a snowy owl at Logan Airport 32 […]
A New Hampshire cabinetmaker gave his new kitchen island the antique treatment. Rough handling and a unique hand-finishing technique gave this new piece the distressed, timeworn look that cabinetmaker Jack Kurilla was after. PROJECT: ANTIQUED KITCHEN ISLANDGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Jack Kurilla’s craftsmanship is about perfection. As a […]
The Trappist Monks of St. Josephs’s Abbey feed their souls with prayer and meditation while facing a future filled with questions without answers.
Did you know that Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women has never been out of print? Learn more tidbits and Little Women trivia celebrating the classic book.
A red oak meets its end, but not the limit of what it can offer. A decade ago, when I first moved to an 1850s farmhouse set beside two huge red oaks, my new neighbor, Mrs. Atwood, heaved open her window and leaned out to announce, “Your leaves are on my lawn.” I stood by my […]
Yankee Classic: December 1987 If an entire town can be said to share one ghost, then Newbury, Vermont, has held clear title to Orville Gibson ever since he disappeared 30 years ago this month. It wasn’t until 85 days after he vanished that the town, and then the nation, learned the grim fate of Newbury farmer […]
Once I believed that the holidays meant rituals of obligation: a Thanksgiving feast, and then with barely a breath in between, an almost obsessive need to bestow gifts. When my sons were young, I filled secret places with toys and gadgets, even making one final sweep on Christmas Eve for that “needed” stocking surprise. I […]
