When an oil train derailed just over the Maine border in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, it ignited a horrific inferno that took 47 lives and forever changed the community and its people.
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If the town had been called “Connecticut Point” or “South Mystic,” I could have resisted. But it was a word I’d never seen or heard—the sign read, “Noank.” About four miles southwest of the Mystic River Drawbridge, my mom and I pulled into a little lot by the water. “Yeah, you can tell who lives […]
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In Heaven | Mary’s Farm
A week at Mary’s Farm could put you in another frame of mind. In this isolated place, the woes of the rest of the world sometimes seem very far away, quite imaginary. But I have an apartment in the downstairs of this house that I rent out in the summertime. Guests come from all over–California, […]
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Sand Castles | Beach Memories
The drive to build such fleeting structures as sand castles must satisfy some ancient urge. Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, which is a fancy way of saying that children are barbarians. I see this every summer at the beach when my kids build sand castles. The younger the child, the more primitive the architecture. Joel, who is […]
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Yankee Magazine Cover | June 1980
June 1980 | “The Gathering,” by Joseph Correale.
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Yankee Magazine Cover | June 1977
June 1977 | “Open Church Door,” by Katharine Newell Grimes.
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View a sampling of sites along New England’s “Maritime Trail,” covering 400 years of seafaring history.
Learn more about the steamboat Ticonderoga, a popular attraction at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont. Launched in 1906, the Ticonderoga (or the Ti, for those who knew it well) was a state-of-the-art side-wheel steamer that transported passengers, freight, and cars—even an elephant once—on Lake Champlain, cruising at 23 miles per hour; only trains could […]
Welcome to New England, home of culinary creativity … and more than a few oddities.
There were cows and calves aplenty on their dairy farm when Diane Young was a girl growing up in South Albany, Vt., but for some reason her baby brother Alan had his heart set on getting a lamb. One day their father relented and brought home the pined for lamb, but it was white, and […]
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Podunk | Lexicon
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Podunk can refer to any “small, unimportant, and isolated town.” But according to Indian Place Names of New England, “Podunk” is literally translated as “a place where the foot sinks in” and is a real place — a former village and pond in Worcester County, Massachusetts. East Brookfield now owns […]