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 […]
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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 […]
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Feedback | Autumn 2015
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 […]
More than one contributor to Arthur Griffin’s New England: The Four Seasons noticed how much livelier than his or her own essay was Griffin’s laconic yet vividly factual account of when and where and how he took the picture. God is in the details, they say; certainly photographic excellence stems from attention to details. That, […]
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Apples | In Season
Autumn’s fruit yields a rich bounty. Most people are surprised to learn that apples, the most American of fruits, aren’t actually native to North America. They originated in Central Asia, growing wild in the foothills of the Tien Shan mountain range until humans carried them west and north along early trade routes. When the first […]
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In the Kingdom of the Jalberts
Yankee Classic: Everything unraveled one sultry late-summer afternoon in 1958, the horrifying day that changed the Allagash River forever.
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Ship Shape
For the shipwrights at Mystic Seaport, a way of life sails on.
A video tour of Mary’s Farm, the Harrisville, New Hampshire, home that Edie Clark immortalized in the pages of Yankee.
Our editor-in-chief recalls his first morning working for Yankee Magazine’s founder. During every Fourth of July, my mind turns to Robb Sagendorph, founder of Yankee Magazine, who died 45 years ago, on July 4, 1970, but whose presence I still feel within the pages of every issue, including this one. He was my first boss […]
Did New England invent leaf peeping as a destination? Perhaps. Here’s a look at our favorite foliage season musts — our “7 Wonders of Fall.”
When you take a foliage daytrip along Route 100, you’ll understand why this stretch of highway has been called the most scenic in New England.
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Life in the Kingdom | Eating the Sun
The Yankee work ethic is alive and well on the Hewitt homestead.