It’s admittedly counterintuitive, calling the sensation of wearing almost no clothing in 20° to 30° air and 38° ocean water “warm and fuzzy,” but that’s precisely how Nantucket Islanders describe the feeling on Children’s Beach on Thanksgiving morning. Nantucket’s “Cold Turkey Plunge” pulls some 500 big and little dippers out of bed and away from […]
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Harry Parker’s Legacy
Row past the Head of the Charles finish line and you’ll reach the place where freshwater once met saltwater at high tide, when the Charles still filled and emptied twice a day. Nearby, on a broad bend in the river, you’ll find the boathouse for Community Rowing Inc. (CRI), the country’s first and largest public […]
Welcome this edition of “Jud’s New England Journal,” the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, the Editor-in-Chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, New Hampshire. A Modest Proposal Might we consider changing the name of Columbus day? It seems to me that in recent years, Columbus Day has lost a little of […]
<!– _ It’s the size and shape of an ice cream truck. And certainly kindles the same enthusiasm, “They’re here!” shout the kids of a North Troy day care, as the big white truck lumbers down their long dirt road. Yet it’s not ice cream sandwiches and popsicles, they’re giddy about, it’s The Lunch Box […]
I’ve been fixing the same old pasture fence for more than 20 years, and in that time the fence has educated me. This old horse fence, unpainted wooden boards and posts, has schooled me in wood and tools. George Iselin built this fence 17 years before we bought our house with its old barn, outbuilding, […]
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Yankee Magazine Cover | October 1971
October 1971 | “Pre-Season Workout,” Bolton, Massachusetts by Will E. Kirkpatrick
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Yankee Magazine Cover | October 1984
The art for the October 1984 cover is titled “Mystic Porch Series: With Molly,” an acrylic painting by Carol Raab, who lives and works in North Carolina. This painting was inspired by the artist’s cat, Molly, and family home in Mystic, Connecticut.
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Yankee Magazine Cover | October 1975
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Yankee Magazine Cover | October 1968
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Yankee Magazine Cover | October 1954
October 1954 | “Roadside Stand,” by Beatrix Sagendorph.
Join Fred Marple as he gives a guided tour of his local swap shop, and be sure to check out www.frostheaves.com for more Fred Marple fun!
September 1984 |”Cocker Spaniel Pups,” by John Weiss.