One of my favorite photo pieces we’ve run in Yankee focused on the young performers of Circus Smirkus in 2001. Our photographer, Dana Smith, captured these beautifully composed portraits in black and white. There is such an intensity and allure to each of the images. I remember having all of the black and white prints […]
My good friend Rob Shetterly and I had a major difference of opinion recently over the ethical if not the aesthetic merits of drawings by Steve Mumford. Rob, president of the Union of Maine Visual Artists, an art activist, creator of the American Who Tell the Truth portrait series, and a plaintiff in the lawsuit […]
Connecticut is the New England state least defined by its geography — a gentle green landscape of low, rolling hills, highways, and suburbs, a commuter haven more determined by culture than nature. As such, the Nutmeg State is also a splendid destination for art lovers. The established Connecticut Art Trail features 14 distinctive museums, each […]
I have always been ambivalent on the subject of hunting. I understand the arguments but love our friends in the wild. A trip to New Jersey, which inevitably includes the sight of deer carcasses scattered along the roadside like so much litter, can help along the arguments not only for thinning the herd, but also […]
My editor and a longtime travel writer, Mel Allen, often hands out the sagely advice to “get lost, but carry a good map.” Sometimes this works better in theory than in practice. Don’t get me wrong, it’s definitely good advice for people in our line of work. Good travel writing takes readers to places they’ve […]
If you know the difference between Camille Pissarro, the French Impressionist painter, and Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish explorer, you may also know that Pissarro was considered the Father of Impressionism and is celebrated and loved for his gentle, soft focus landscapes and scenes of rural life. What you may not know is that Camille Pissarro […]
Welcome to the July 2011 edition of Jud’s New England Journal, the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, the editor-in-chief of Yankee, published since 1935 in Dublin, New Hampshire. Okay, So Who Was the First to Fry a Clam? I feel pretty certain as to who was the first to EAT a clam. But […]
Though one could easily describe the handcrafted children’s clothing Mary-Alice Dalton produces as art , she’d prefer not to think of it that way. “My work is meant to be worn every day, by an active child, and I design and construct every piece with that in mind,” says the founder of Belmont, New Hampshire-based […]
The Portland Museum of Art is spending the summer of 2011 back in the first half of the 20th century, featuring a pair of exhibitions devoted to artists who brought Modernism to the coast of Maine. Maine Moderns: Art in Sequinland, 1900-1940 (through September 11) is an exhibition of more than 65 paintings, drawings, sculptures […]
“The regulars sit at the counter. They come in between 8:00 and 9:00, and they talk about politics and things in town. The good old boys. Sometimes you get involved in the talking, but when it comes to politics, I try not to say too much. They all have a lot to say!” “People have […]
A typical workday for Tracie Smith, an organic-vegetable farmer in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, is a long one. Weeding, harvesting, planting–on midsummer days she’ll be on the move for as many as 16 hours to meet the demands of her 300-member CSA (community-supported agriculture) business. Except at lunch. That’s when Tracie and her small staff sit […]
Like the house, the property’s bullpen has had many lives. This stout little post-and-beam barn sits on a solid foundation of quarried granite. Inside, the ring that once held a bull in check by his nose remains embedded in the stone wall, but not much else is the same. At first, Jilly and Alex Walsh […]
