Joyce Tenneson is famous for her ethereal, romantic photographs of women, flowers, seashells, and now trees. She is one of the few serious photographers who dares to tackle obvious beauty in an age of ironic ugliness. I have long regarded her as the Andrew Wyeth of photography. Just as Wyeth painted as though […]
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I Took a Voyage on the R.M.S Titanic
Excerpt from “I Took a Voyage on the R.M.S Titanic,” Yankee Magazine, June 1981. Marjorie Newell Robb of Westport Point, Massachusetts, was one of the last survivors of Titanic disaster. Here’s her story: At the age of 56, Mr. Arthur W. Newell of Lexington, Massachusetts, had finally attained that station of life to which he […]
In New England Old Is Good
Welcome to the April 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. In New England Old Is Good That is, in most cases. (But not all.) It’s true that in New England old is good while new […]
Are you a die-hard Red Sox fan? Did you know the number worn by more Red Sox than any other is #15, worn by 52 players? Test your knowledge of Red Sox Team Uniform Trivia.
The Many Faces of F. Holland Day
Fred Holland Day (1864-1933) was a colorful and controversial character in his time, a wealthy Bostonian who championed photography as an art form. A noted Pictorialist himself, he created romantic photographs that aped paintings. In this he was eclipsed in his own time by his rival Alfred Stieglitz and in history by the rise […]
Yankee Magazine Cover | March 1999
Painting by Robert Crawford.
Wally Warren’s Roadside Attractions
Wally Warren has been described variously as a folk artist, a faux folk artist, an outsider artist, an earth artist, an environmental artist, an assemblage artist, a found object artist, and a recycle artist. He just thinks of himself as a sculptor. In 2011, Warren had a rare institutional exhibition of his colorful, […]
Yankee Magazine Cover | March 1988
March 1988 | “The Skaters,” by Andy Dearwater.
Yankee Magazine Cover | March 1998
“The Homecoming,” by Norman Rockwell.
Yankee Magazine Cover | March 1973
“March in Connecticut,” by George Cherepov.
Yankee Magazine Cover | March 1961
Cover by Joseph Barber.
In a world of easy disposability, these New England restoration artists aim to help people hold on to the past.