Expert house care advice from the oldest and largest heritage organization in the country. The clapboards on our old Cape are in terrible shape. I’m considering replacing them with vinyl. Beyond the general aesthetic issues of having vinyl clapboards on an old Cape, are there other things I should consider before going this route? R.K., […]
Fannie Farmer changed the world with a simple idea: that home cooking was a serious pursuit. Learn more, plus our take on 4 favorite recipes.
Stephen King reminisces about the publication of his first book, “Carrie.” Excerpt from “The Man Who Writes Nightmares,” Yankee Magazine, March 1979.
Apple season brings an autumn ritual and a toast to dear friends. I feel like I’m just going around in circles,” I complain to Dave, but there’s a twinkle in my eye. Every fall I bucket up some apples, and haul them over to my neighbors, Dave Brown and Ann Ingerson, to make cider on a […]
When Maine passed an 1897 bill requiring hunting guides to register with the state, the first license issued went to ‘Fly Rod’ Crosby, a sportswoman and journalist whose natural flair for public relations had helped establish western and northern Maine as outdoor-sports destinations. Cornelia Thurza Crosby was born in Phillips, Maine, on November 10, 1854. […]
They’re an unlikely pairing for immortality together: Alfred Eisenstaedt, a German-born photographer who roamed New York with his Leica for Life magazine, and George Mendonça, a young sailor, just back from World War II, who was raised in a Rhode Island fishing family and would soon return to that life. In a Times Square instant […]
Jud Hale, Yankee’s editor-in-chief, is one of New England’s greatest gifts to America. Still the editor. Still the chief.
For five nights in September 1990, Americans watched, transfixed, Ken Burns’s PBS series The Civil War. We had never seen the conflict through eyes as compassionate and as cinematic as the film Burns had created from his Walpole, New Hampshire, studio. His war was about not just battles, but also ordinary people swept up in […]
It’s never too early to start thinking about leaf-peeping season and plan a fall foliage trip. We’ve pulled together a list of links to help you begin planning your next leaf-peeping adventure. Free Mobile App Find and report on fall foliage in your region! Yankee Magazine‘s Leaf Peepr app helps fall-foliage fans find and report […]
In those days, the fabled L. L. Bean store in Freeport, Maine, was known principally for snowshoes and what we called “Barker Boots,” the rubber-bottom, leather-top, lace-up item that we thought was in universal use among lumberjacks in the deep woods of the North Country. If the bottoms ever wore out, we knew that L.L. Bean […]
When the townspeople of Craftsbury, Vermont, hang out at the general store, the line blurs between “store” and “story,” a scenario little changed since America’s first country store opened in Adamsville, Rhode Island, in 1788. Little more than a century has passed since folks hitched horses off the porch and rambled into the Craftsbury General Store […]
Our favorite recent letters, Facebook posts, Instagram comments, and tweets. Happy 80th When we arrived home this Monday, August 24th, from a quick weekend to Wells, Maine, our Yankee magazine awaited us in our mailbox. It reminded me of why I love living in New England. As a native, with roots in New Hampshire, Vermont […]
