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Collision Course
To save endangered whales, New England’s iconic lobster industry is facing unpopular and possibly dangerous changes.
In Maine’s Aroostook County, everyone chips in during fall potato harvest.
Sometimes contentment comes from knowing how special the ordinary can be.
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Changing Landscapes | Inside Yankee
In the last days of September 1978, I joined a potato harvest crew on Donald Gallagher’s farm in northern Aroostook County, Maine. I worked for 40 cents a barrel. To fill a barrel you bent over, put a basket between your legs, and picked potatoes with both hands. After only an hour my legs had […]
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The Sanctuary | First Person
By Tim Loftus I stand silently in this hemlock grove a few times each year. Collectively, every tree shares the same name: Tsuga canadensis, or Eastern hemlock, for those who only understand them to be just another commodity of lumber or pulp paper. But to me, each and every one of these trees is my […]
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Dear Yankee | September/October 2022
Readers respond to their favorite Yankee magazine articles.
One family has always kept its eyes on the Mount Washington Auto Road.
How a TV witch came to cast her spell on visitors to Salem, Massachusetts.
Catching up with a Green Mountain State trailblazer and featured Weekends with Yankee guest.
Now turning 50, the famed road race in Falmouth, Massachusetts, might just be the best in America.
Having helped to win a war, MIT’s early work on radar still touches our daily lives.