“Nesting Lon II” (detail) by Joan M. Nixon © 1992.
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The Pleasures of May
Maybe this month is called “May” because of all the new things that are possible. “A stick, a stone, it’s the end of the road…” so goes the catchy bossa nova song, “The Waters of March,” which lists an inventory of some lovely (and brutal) things unearthed in the torrents of spring. Following March and […]
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25 number of times a lobster sheds its shell during the first five years of life 98 estimated number of calories in a typical 3-ounce serving of lobster 61:9.5 feet and inches: length of the world’s longest lobster roll, containing 48 pounds of meat, recorded at the Old Port Festival in Portland in 2009Get Our […]
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Fruitlands | Local Treasure
A visit to Fruitlands begins with the view. Perched at the top of Prospect Hill in Harvard, Massachusetts, it’s impossible to resist the miles-wide, postcard-perfect rolling landscape below along the Nashua River. “When people drive in, you can see it on their faces,” says the museum’s marketing manager, Mary Delaney. “Even for us, it’s a […]
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Yankee Magazine Cover | May 1978
“Ruby’s Hollyhocks,” a painting by Katherine Newell Grimes of Hamden, Connecticut.
“We were new in Vermont,” Don Avery writes in the forward to his 2014 nursery catalogue, “In the spring of 1980 Cady’s Falls Nursery started out with three cold frames and a glassed in porch. We had the simplistic idea of making a living growing plants. In the decade that followed, a miracle unfolded and […]
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Yankee Magazine Cover | May 1981
May 1981 | “Pawlet [Vermont},” an oil painting by Charles Curtis Allen.
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Seaquankeyquash | Lexicon
Find out the definition and origin of the word Seaquankeyquash!