The beauty of the New England islands has inspired an enduring legacy of artists and fine art, some 150 years in the making.
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Susan Cole Kelly is a Boston-based photographer and regular contributor to Yankee Magazine and YankeeMagazine.com. She captured the Boston Marathon memorial on Boylston Street in a series of photographs and shares her feelings on how the memorial has affected her and the Boston community. See more of her photographs of Boston at kellypix.com. [slideshow post_id=”423603″] […]
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About “Peepehs” and Peas….
Welcome to the May 2013 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, N.H. About “Peepehs” and Peas….Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Both are integral parts of a New England spring… […]
Researchers in the field (hay mostly, but occasionally they wandered into the corn) have identified 10 distinct varieties of New Englanders. Which one best describes your personality? [slideshow post_id=”386855″ exclude=”396729″]
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Best 5 Mountain-Bike Trails
Longtime Yankee contributor and Massachusetts native Todd Balf, who has ridden mountain-bike trails from New Zealand to Venezuela. We asked him to share his picks for the best 5 mountain bike trails in New England. Great Brook Farm State Park (Carlisle, MA) Twenty miles of trails beyond the red farm buildings at the entrance to […]
Though I don’t get to the University of Maine Museum of Art, two hours north of me in downtown Bangor, very often, I have never been disappointed when I have. The Alan Bray exhibition I saw there last fall was the best solo show I saw all year and the I-95 Triennial 2013 (through June […]
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DeCordova’s Boston Biennial
Back in 1987, the then-DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, mounted New England Now: Contemporary Art from Six States, a truly authoritative regional survey of the sort that New England needs. The DeCordova became the New England regional hub for new art under curator Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, but, now renamed DeCordova […]
Note: JD Hale, Yankee Publishing Vice-President, is the great nephew of Yankee Magazine’s founder, Robb Sagendorph. Until last Monday I had not been to the finish of the Boston Marathon since I ran it in 1986. I was a rookie BAA volunteer in my yellow Adidas jacket along with my friend Bill Goodwin and wife, […]
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Jud’s Journal: Vermont
Jud Hale joins us in his next installment of the New England states. This time we discuss Vermont’s common sense. Transcription: Well, we’ve been doing the States during this 75th anniversary of Yankee Publishing, the New England States. So, it brings us to Vermont. There’s a lot you could say about Vermont, but I think […]
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Jud’s Journal: Indian Summer
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Chief Sitting Bull’s Eagle Claw
Find out how Jud ended up with five eagle claws from Chief Sitting Bull in this episode of Jud’s Museum.