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Bill Staines | New England’s Gifts

I first saw Bill Staines perform at The Folkway in Peterborough, New Hampshire. It was 1979, and my sister, Anita, had come from Boston to visit me in Dublin, where I had just moved. Bill Staines was tall and lean; he wore a cowboy hat with jeans and boots, and his songs were like short […]

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Expert Home Advice | Autumn 2015

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., […]

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Fannie Farmer | New England’s Gifts

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.

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Stephen King | New England’s Gifts

Stephen King reminisces about the publication of his first book, “Carrie.” Excerpt from “The Man Who Writes Nightmares,” Yankee Magazine, March 1979.

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The Farmer’s Life: Hard Pressed

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 […]

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Fly Rod Crosby, the First Maine Guide| New England’s Gifts

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.

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‘The Kissing Sailor’ | New England’s Gifts

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 […]

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Ken Burns | New England’s Gifts

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 […]

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Plan a Fall Foliage Trip

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 […]

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