Our 9th annual appreciation of Angels Among Us, celebrating ordinary New Englanders with who are making an extraordinary difference in others’ lives.
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The Summit Project | Angels Among Us
Learn how The Summit Project is memorializing Maine’s fallen soldiers.
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Beatrice Trum Hunter | The Natural
More than 50 years ago, Beatrice Trum Hunter published the first natural foods cookbook in America. Now approaching 100, she’s still fighting to help people eat better and live without toxic chemicals.
In 1987, Yankee asked Gunnar Hansen about his famous 1974 role as Leatherface in the cult horror movie classic, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Hansen spent his childhood years in Maine, and returned there in 1975 to begin a career in writing, which included appearances in Yankee. He passed away on November 7, 2015 at his […]
In the spring of 1954, Milton Graton landed a job that would change his life and the fate of covered bridges around the country, New England especially. A structure mover out of Ashland, New Hampshire, the 46-year-old Graton was a large-scale hauler, moving buildings mainly. Which is how he ended up in Rumney, […]
Thousands of viewers tuned in to see Julia Child’s kitchen, which they saw as an extension of their own, and where they came to be instructed and entertained.
If the earth could speak, it might offer words of gratitude to New England for inspiring the most persuasive environmental voices the nation has ever known. Perhaps, as some fear, the tipping point of the earth’s warming has already been reached—but that hasn’t silenced the indefatigable Bill McKibben, ardent environmentalist and lucid writer, who from […]
Go find one of Kate Hepburn’s early movies from the 1930s: Bringing Up Baby or Holiday, for example. It’s almost shocking how modern she is, how different from the other women in those films. She’s all angles and intelligence—so sharp you could cut yourself on her. What’s she doing with all those moon-faced girls? How […]
Love a menu with historic ties? This collection of 21 fresh-but- familiar holiday recipes from the Yankee recipe archives is here to help.
Feisty Annie Smith Peck conquered the world’s highest peaks —and horrified her Rhode Island relatives in the process. Born into a traditional New England family in 1850—her father was a lawyer and businessman, her mother a direct descendant of Roger Williams—she mortified her parents when she vowed she would develop the strength and stamina to […]
Would there have been a Malcolm X or a Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. without W. E. B. Du Bois? Most likely, but the civil-rights world they led and shaped would undoubtedly have looked much different. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1868, at the dawn of Reconstruction, Du Bois died in 1963, during […]
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Samantha Smith | New England’s Gifts
In the summer of 1983 the most famous child in the world was Samantha Smith, the 10-year-old girl from Maine who sent a letter to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov: “My name is Samantha Smith … I have been worrying about Russia and the United States getting into a nuclear war …” Her subsequent journey to […]