Even back in the 1970s when I was a graduate student in Boston, I wasn’t a big fan of the Museum of Fine Arts. I dropped in at the elegant and eccentric little Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum regularly just to smell the gardens in winter and breathe the ancient air, but the MFA struck […]
Ferris Wheel at Story Land by Jessica Vescera When we saw this photo, we were immediately drawn to the vintage look and feel of this image. It has an interesting composition that captures the timelessappeal of children enjoying one of our all-time favorite rides at one of New England’s most beloved amusement parks. See […]
“Last year I had the best year ever,” my old friend Eric Hopkins told me back in May when I stopped by to visit him at his new studio on the edge of downtown Rockland, Maine. Sometimes it seems as though Eric, one of the most popular and prolific painters in Maine, rules […]
In the year since Tropical Storm Irene barreled through New England, Vermont continues to recover. The storm claimed lives and homes. Businesses, too. And in certain sections of the state, entire towns were cut off for days from assistance. But Vermont and Vermonters are resilient. Communities quickly banded together and today the state is back […]
In the year since Tropical Storm Irene barreled through New England, Vermont continues to recover. The storm claimed lives and homes. Businesses, too. And in certain sections of the state, entire towns were cut off for days from assistance. But Vermont and Vermonters are resilient. Communities quickly banded together and today the state is back […]
Sometime before the end of the year, when we head to Providence to visit our oldest daughter and her family, we will definitely stop by the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art to check out Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection. The exhibition (September 23 to […]
What is it about a rectangular patch of grass that so captivates the New England psyche? Is it genetic? Cultural? What am I missing? For the life of me I can’t figure out why everyone thinks the Yankee parking lot is the Dublin Town Green. Our office has a simple horseshoe parking lot that runs […]
The Jaffrey, New Hampshire, Festival of Fireworks is an annual event that bills itself as “the best fireworks show in New England.” It was held on August 20th (it’s generally the third week in August) and has earned its following of fireworks aficionados owing to the dazzling display put on by Atlas Pyrotechnics. A company […]
Welcome to the September 2011 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. The Aftermath of the Most Famous New England Murder And it continues to this very day! The premier murder case in New England — possibly […]
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art has been setting attendance records this summer with Edward Hopper’s Maine, an exhibition (through October 16) of some 90 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints of Maine landscapes and cityscapes created during nine trips to Vacationland between the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and the stock market […]
As a child on Cape Cod, Ethan Daniels fell in love with water and the mysteries within it. He learned to swim and sail there, and later (in order to become an intern at the New England Aquarium) he learned to dive in its murky depths. “The study of life around the planet was the […]
The Rhode Island Red breed began in Adamsville (a village of Little Compton), Rhode Island, in 1854, when William Tripp crossed his Cochin hens with a Red Malay or Chittagong rooster purchased from a sailor in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Isaac Wilbour, above, Tripp’s neighbor, bred his hens with the “Tripp fowl,” creating what he called […]
