“Attack of the Killer Beach Ball,” by Michael Paraskevas.
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Yankee Magazine Cover | July 1971
Before I accepted my Assistant Editor position here at Yankee Magazine back in November 2011, I was a full-time office worker by day and food blogger by night…including most weekends. Blogging started as a hobby but soon grew into a passion, and in time, I slowly went from bumbling novice to comfortable baker and slightly […]
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Favorite Candy Stores of New England
We’ve been visiting a lot of New England resort towns this summer, which means we’ve also been to a lot of seafood shacks, bookstores, beachy home decor boutiques, and candy shops. And the candy shops have been the most thrilling because they’re all about sweetness and fantasy. Even if you’re not a huge fan of […]
On Friday, July 13, I am planning to attend a press preview of the William Wegman retrospective at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine. Entitled William Wegman: Hello Nature, the exhibition is the first major show by Wegman, a Maine summer resident and one of the country’s most famous photographers. The […]
Welcome to the July 2012 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. There Are No Heart Attacks Among Native New Englanders None at all. The simple explanation has to do with the way we speak… There are […]
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Yankee Magazine Cover | July 1995
July 1995 | “Hometown,” by Ned Young
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Yankee Magazine Cover | June 1995
“Edgartown: A View Looking over the Outer Harbor Towards Chappaquiddick,” by John Stobart.
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Hartley in Dogtown
“Dogtown looks like a cross between Easter Island and Stonehenge – essentially druidic in its appearance – it gives the feeling that an ancient race might turn up at any moment and renew an ageless rite there. Dogtown is therefore not the ground for sketch artists and that is why they never go there […]
There are no easy answers when “invasive” plants move into our forests, meadows, and backyards. Learn more about New England invasive plant species.
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A Mother’s Impact
“My mom was born into the war in Germany, survived that, and raised four kids as a single parent while working full-time.Anything that was in her way didn’t last long, and I think maybe I inherited some of that perseverance from her. She always believed in me. I realize these days that kids have so […]
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Jenny Thompson | The Big Question
Few Olympic athletes achieve the kind of success that swimmer Jenny Thompson did. Born in Danvers, Massachusetts, and raised in Dover, New Hampshire, she became the most decorated female American Olympic athlete to date, with 12 medals, including eight golds, over the course of her long career. Today, Thompson has embarked on a new life […]