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Jud’s Journal: Massachusetts
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!
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As Simple As That | Mary’s Farm
In a lifetime of change, a cast-iron cookstove and a porch with a view remain constants. Many years ago, my husband Michael and I moved up here from the city. We built a little house, paying cash as we went and doing all the work ourselves, including building the four-flue center chimney. This was in […]
From Caribou, Maine, to somewhere south of Hartford, there’s only one big-league ball team for New England…but a wide assortment of characters who love them, known as Red Sox Nation.
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Yankee Magazine Cover | April 1992
“Poppies, Isles of Shoals,” (1891), by Childe Hassam.
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Spring | New England Numbers
What are the numbers behind spring in New England? The ounces of blood a blackfly will draw, the number of strolling heifers in Brattleboro, VT, lupine in Acadia National Park… 0.00007 ounce: blood drawn before a blackfly says, “I’m stuffed.” $2.00 price of “WE BREED ‘EM, YOU FEED ‘EM” bumper sticker from the Maine Blackfly […]