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 […]
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More Red Sox lore: Boston Red Sox Team Uniforms Baseball Collectibles Red Sox Fun Facts A compendium of facts and trivia about the Red Sox uniforms: On December 18, 1907, shortly after Boston’s National League team revealed that the new uniforms for 1908 eliminated their customary red stockings, owner John I. Taylor of the Boston […]
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Rock of Ages
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 […]
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My Favorite Survival Story
“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 […]
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From Homer to Hopper
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 […]
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AUDIO: Captain Richard Phillips
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. Captain Phillips on the Business of Piracy: In Somalia, […]
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Boston Red Sox Team Uniforms
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. Red Sox in pinstripes? For much of the period between 1912 and 1931, both home […]
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 […]
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Antiques: Chelsea Clocks
To hear my punctual mother tell it, I was born two weeks early and that was the last time I was early for anything. A skillful procrastinator, I seem powerless to change. I hear the tick of the clock and I rage against that machine. But even as I curse the swing of the pendulum, […]
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New England Mardi Gras
On Saturday night I went to a potluck at my friend Deb’s house. She loves Mardi Gras and almost never misses it but this year, for various reasons, she couldn’t get down to New Orleans. So she threw a party instead. Everyone was greeted at the door and bedecked with the famous beads of the […]
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Town Meeting Tips
Make a Name for Yourself Some old-timers like to tell new residents not to speak at their first or (gulp) even first five Town Meetings. Nonsense, says Susan Clark. But picking your speaking spots is important. “There’s a trust that needs to develop,” she says. “If you just go in there and say, This is […]