LOCATION: Bear Pond, Waterford Date: October 11 Time: 6:15 a.m. Equipment: 40mm lens “I’d gone by Bear Pond in the dark, so I hadn’t noticed the gorgeous granite boulders, definitely one of my weaknesses! I have a hard time passing them by.”
LOCATION: Keoka Lake, Waterford Date: October 3 Time: 6:22 a.m. Equipment: 40mm lens “I left the house before 5 a.m. There was mist rising off the lake, and there’s always a good chance for a good photo when mist is rising off water … When I drove into Waterford, I drove by Keoka Lake. The […]
Next summer, my house will turn 250 years old. I’m at a loss as to how to celebrate this once-in-a-lifetime milestone. I’ve taken part in only 14 of those years, fewer than 10 percent, and yet I feel its protection like a turtle in her shell. I have no diaries to tell me of the […]
3.6 million: number of foliage tourists who visit Vermont each autumn $331.9 million: average annual value of foliage tourists to Vermont’s economy 16,000 number of apple-cider doughnuts sold each weekend day in October at Cold Hollow Cider Mill in Waterbury Center, VTGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe 30,560 number of […]
Why is it that so many writers of spooky stories–Edgar Allen Poe (Massachusetts), H. P. Lovecraft (Rhode Island), Stephen King (Maine)–have been New Englanders? Now Vermont’s Chris Bohjalian joins the lineup. Or should I say the coven? After reading Bohjalian’s The Night Strangers, I wonder how much it has to do with our architecture. Every […]
Often the smartest person in the room is also the weirdest, a fact that is rarely more evident than at Harvard University’s annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. For one evening every fall, the average IQ inside Sanders Theatre spikes as the brightest minds around (and that’s a high bar in Cambridge) gather to toast the […]
Orren Fox is a lot of things. He’s a chicken farmer, beekeeper, staunch foodie, and avid Celtics fan. He’s also a blogger with a large following. And, oh yeah, he’s only a freshman in high school. Since getting his first chickens five years ago, the 14-year-old vegetarian has immersed himself in the issues surrounding not […]
Sometimes a miracle happens–a parent can become a hero again.
Some people are musician groupies and collect signed concert ticket stubs. I am a writer groupie and collect signed books. This year was a particularly good one for me. I met two of my favorite living authors. Or, at least I met one author who I wished would be my new best friend, and I […]
Art is all about making personal choices, not just for the artist, but also for the audience, the dealer, the collector, the curator, and the critic. What exhibitions am I going to see? What artists am I going to write about? What art do I think is important? What art am I going to buy? […]
Several weeks ago, I received an email from Keith Davis, a Maine entrepreneur who has devoted the past few years to reviving a beloved Maine treat called the Harbor Bar. Harbor Bars are chocolate-dipped ice cream sandwiches filled with either vanilla or mint ice cream. They were first created in the late 1970s as a […]
Welcome to the August 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. When Richard Wagner Came to Camp on a Scow It was a summer of music I’ll never forget What with all the band concerts, chamber […]
