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 […]
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Edward Hopper in Maine
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 […]
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Bear Pond Waterford
LOCATION: Bear Pond, Waterford Date: October 10 Time: 3:45 p.m. Equipment: 60mm lens ” I feel as though there are two sides of autumn. There’s the active autumn, where there’s lots of energy involved: fairs, festivals, pumpkin stands, apple picking, leaf peeping. And then there’s the quiet autumn, like a lake with colors on the […]
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Pine Point
LOCATION: Pine Point (northeast of Old Orchard Beach) Date: October 4 Time: 5:05 p.m. Equipment: 40mm lens “I was driving and suddenly saw the slash of red on the grass of the marsh, and then I noticed the piece of wood.”
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Scarborough Marsh
LOCATION: Scarborough Marsh Date: October 4 Time: 4:00 p.m. Equipment: 150mm lens “I love the golden yellow of marsh grasses. I switched to a longer 150mm lens to get more color. I wanted to be sure I got the bridge in the photo; it sets up the expansiveness of the marsh.”
My sense of fair play tells me it is way too soon to return to the Center for Maine Contemporary Art for a review even though the July 20 post about Steve Mumford’s drawings and paintings of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has been the most popular and controversial Just Looking post ever. But, […]
If you picked up the July/August issue of Yankee Magazine, I hope you took time to peruse the photo essay, “Summer on the Lake,” in which Richard Schultz captured the essence of lakeside living in a stunning array of photographs. I certainly did and was intrigued not only by the images, but also the description […]
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Biddeford Pool 40mm
Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe LOCATION: Biddeford Pool Date: October 19 Time: 8:30 a.m. Equipment: 40mm lens “I’d come here the day before in the late afternoon to do some scouting and noticed that the marsh shot would be better in the morning. I came back then for sunrise […]
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Parsonsfield 150mm
LOCATION: Parsonsfield Date: October 13 Time: 5 p.m. Equipment: 150mm lens “Reverent is how I feel in graveyards. Respectful, seeing gravestones in a row, families still held together by stone walls and wrought-iron fencing. First I framed the image with the gravestones and mountains, but the fencing seemed so important–families being protected from … what […]
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Biddeford Pool
Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe LOCATION: Biddeford Pool Date: October 18 Time: 6:35 p.m. Equipment: 60mm lens “I was just losing the sun, and I just happened to see the yellowing leaves and rose hips on the bushes. There’s so much more to capture in autumn than colorful leaves […]