“Wow—look at all that blue sky! You didn’t put in any of our grey winter clouds,” June Pichel Cook, the local reporter noted as she assessed the new mural, its paint still wet. “Yes, this is an idealized version,” Sarah Mutrux, the Art House’s executive director replied, “but we feel it celebrates the best aspects […]
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Lew French is part stonemason, part artist, part magician. He hand-selects each stone used in his structures to make sure they fit perfectly.
Cover by Beatrix Sagendorph
Dave Brown likes to make things. Along with his wife, Ann, he’s hewed most of their home’s furnishings: beds, tables, desks—everything but a brown couch and a reading chair that outfit the house they built. When it came time to make the spindles for the ladder back chairs, Dave purchased a second hand lathe, which […]
A collection of images from the 2013 book A Lifetime of Vermont People from celebrated Vermont author and photographer Peter Miller.
The following slideshow represent a small selection of photographs from his latest book which was published in the summer of 2013, A Lifetime of Vermont People. In it are profiles and photographs of 60 Vermonters the author has recorded over the past 63 years. It is recognized as a seminal book on rural Vermonters. Some call these Vermonters a “Vanishing Species”.
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Yankee Magazine Cover | June 1985
“The Yankee Coast,” acrylic on canvas, by D.A. Gordon Dart.
“George Washington” by Joseph Christian Leyendecker.
Few New Englanders would describe the memorable 2013 Red Sox season as anything short of miraculous. With Boston recovering from the spring Marathon bombing tragedy, the Red Sox put together a comeback season for the ages, one that mirrored the city’s strength and resiliency to “B” Strong; to set to mind a task, and get it […]
S.D. Ireland’s truck number 6 sits in the third bay of the garage on Grove Street in South Burlington, being prepped for its next outing. Unlike the concrete trucks in the first and second bays, number 6 won’t be delivering concrete for sidewalks, driveways, foundations, footings or bridges anytime soon. Its drum has been washed […]
Fifty years after the death of President John F. Kennedy, those who knew him and his extended family in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, reflect on a time when Camelot was their neighbor.
November 1993 | “Cornucopia” (detail) by Joyce Patti.
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Angels Among Us 2013
Yankee Magazine profiles three New Englanders who are making an extraordinary difference in others’ lives.