I went off on a bit of a chase for spring on Friday, without really knowing that was what I was doing. I was to write about a woman who lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, outside of Portland, about three hours from here. I left early to be able to arrive at 11. The hills […]
The most intriguing object in the Objects of Wonder: Four Centuries of Still Life from the Norton Museum of Art at the Portland Museum of Art (through June 6) is not a still life painting at all. It is a sculpture entitled “Grouper,” the skeleton of a fish rendered in linden wood by Fumio Yoshimura, […]
MORE: Yankee‘s interview with Captain Richard Phillips Audio Interview: Captain Phillips _________ Captain Richard Phillips jokes that his wife, Andrea, had it harder at home than he did with the pirates. He may be right. In this interview with Yankee editor Mel Allen, Andrea Phillips describes the bonds of love and faith that kept her […]
In an exclusive interview with Yankee, Andrea Phillips, wife of Captain Richard Phillips, talks about what her life was like in Underhill, Vermont, during her husband’s ordeal last April, when he was captured by Somali pirates. Andrea Phillips maintains that their newfound celebrity hasn’t changed them. “We are who we are,” she says. Click here […]
More Red Sox lore: Boston Red Sox Team UniformsBaseball CollectiblesRed Sox Fun Facts A compendium of facts and trivia about the Red Sox uniforms:Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe On December 18, 1907, shortly after Boston’s National League team revealed that the new uniforms for 1908 eliminated their customary red […]
People are always saying newspapers are full of bad news. I don’t find that to be the case, in fact, I find some of the best good news in our local papers. Maybe I just breeze by all the bizarre murders, ghoulish kidnappings and international wars, straight to the little notices that cheer me no […]
“Please, tell us about the Gloucester, Massachusetts, guy who rowed across the Atlantic Ocean without any hands or feet.” That’s a typical request I receive in the mail (or e-mail) from time to time. But most people don’t have it quite straight. Yes, a Gloucester fisherman by the name of Howard Blackburn did row across […]
Watercolor is such a delicate medium, wonderful at transmitting a sense of light on the one hand, easily destroyed by exposure to light on the other, that very few artists create major works in watercolor anymore. Many watercolor paintings spend most of their time in file drawers or, when on display, veiled by cloth covers […]
MORE: Yankee‘s interview with Captain Richard Phillips AUDIO Interview: Andrea Phillips _________ In April 2009, the world watched while Captain Richard Phillips of Underhill, Vermont, was held hostage by pirates off the East African Coast. Listen to his accounts in interviews with Yankee editor Mel Allen.Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) […]
More Red Sox lore: More about Uniforms Baseball Collectibles Red Sox Fun Facts The number worn by more Red Sox than any other is #15, worn by 52 players. Until the 1931 season, the Red Sox didn’t wear uniform numbers.Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Red Sox in pinstripes? For […]
Whatever happened to the Old Man of the Mountain in NH? It’s been years since its collapse, but its fate still hangs in the balance.
How New England Can Save the World: Part II in a series Part I: 2011 Biathalon World Cup: Aroostook County Part III: Hardwick and the New Frontier of Food Part IIII: A Bang for Your Buck in the Berkshires When Michael Wood-Lewis and his wife, Valerie, moved from Washington, D.C., to the south end of […]
