Welcome to the March 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, NH. An Evening With the D. A. R. Whenever I’ve stereotyped groups of people in my mind, invariably something occurs to prove me wrong….. The Daughters […]
In Rhode Island, Gov. Lincoln Chafee, that rarest of all political animals, a liberal Republican turned Independent, has been raising a little private money to beautify the state’s highways with murals by prominent local artists. Last May, a scene of the America’s Cup yacht race designed by North Providence native Anthony Russo was painted on […]
Find out what it’s like to learn how to ski…again.
The rise of the fields’ soft curves, the seasons of the hay, the broad reach of the old apple trees, the long-blooming rosebush on the split-rail fence, the in-your-face view of Mount Monadnock, the brilliance of the night sky … These are just some of the aspects of the beauty that brought me here. It […]
Bill Rodgers knows marathons. In the 1970s and early 1980s, no other runner dominated the sport as he did. He won both the Boston and New York City races four times and became the first American marathoner to break the 2:10 mark. These days, Rodgers, 65, is still running (it’s half-marathons these days)and still spreading […]
Bob King stands at the headworks of an old, 18-foot-high hemlock-and-stone crib dam spanning the Westfield River between Agawam and West Springfield, Massachusetts. It’s mid-April 2012, in the midst of what has been a historically warm spring following an unnaturally dry winter, and the only water coming over the dam shoots through two open sluiceways […]
Shakespeare warned that “all that glitters is not gold.” In fact, I’ve found that most of what glitters is not gold; it’s usually gold vermeil, or gold plate, or gold-filled, or even faux gold-washed. All this false finery might bother you, if you believe that fakery is a pure abomination. I’m not that much of […]
Would you have chosen integrity over money when the Northern Pass Project came to town? These New Englanders did, proving that love of place can run so deep that it’s like faith.
A unique project in the small Vermont town of Cabot reveals what its people, young and old, treasure most.
“This is work I’ve always known. Where I grew up in Arkansas, my parents had a small auction and antiques shop. During our childhood my sister and I were dragged to auctions and flea markets. I remember thinking, I’m never going to do this. But then when I was in college, Sotheby’s sold all the […]
Jud talks about a desired acquisition for his museum.
“Weir Was Here—Secret Rooms, Doors and Windows” is the first artistic photographic collection documenting the interiors of the key historical structures at Weir Farm National Historic Site, located in Wilton and Ridgefield, Connecticut, which have never been seen by the general public. The homestead was continuously occupied by artists starting with Julian Alden Weir, one […]
