Once hundreds of trap-fishing companies plied the Rhode Island coast; today only four remain. Photographer Markham Starr spent 40 days documenting a vanishing way of life for the last trap fishermen of Rhode Island. On the evening of May 20 in Atlanta, Georgia, the City and Regional Magazine Association, which comprises 74 city and regional […]
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Mary’s Farm | The Things We Keep
Last year, I accomplished something I didn’t think possible: I cleaned out my barn. Rolling open the big doors revealed a great hodgepodge of objects from the past, files from stories I’d written over the years, family papers, and things I think I might need or might fix someday. Lacking a compelling reason, one can […]
As much as I love art, it is rarely possible for an artist to improve upon the beauty of the natural world. The myriad forms of teeming, swarming, walking, winged and rooted life are just so impossibly intricate and overwhelming that just paying attention to what’s drifting and floating by in the air, in the […]
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A George Nick Tribute in Duxbury
Twenty-one years ago, back in March of 1991, I wrote a short profile of Boston painter George Nick for Yankee in which I observed that “though he rarely paints people, George Nick is a society painter.” “In the solid, reassuring facades, high bay windows, and ornate stone entries along Beacon Street and Commonwealth Avenue, he […]
The beauty of the New England islands has inspired an enduring legacy of artists and fine art, some 150 years in the making.
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. I avoided […]
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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?
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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. Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Great Brook Farm State Park (Carlisle, MA) Twenty miles […]
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, […]