I once read in a guidebook: “Of all the natural regions of the United States, New England is the smallest, the most compact and convenient to get around in, the most homogeneous… ” For four decades now, I’ve lived and worked in New England, the land from which America evolved. There are few nooks and […]
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Tim Llewellyn photographed Barack Obama on the trail that led through New Hampshire to Washington, D.C. “From Manchester to Berlin…at the ‘Yes, We Can’ speech in Nashua…I had the best seat in the house,” he says. Click below for a slide show of those photos. Read Tim Llewellyn’s text See more Tim Llewellyn photos: FOURL.com […]
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The Ghost of Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth is dead. He reportedly passed away peacefully in his sleep at the great age of 91. Had this been summer, he probably would have drifted away in Port Clyde, Maine, but, as it is winter, his final resting place was Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, the little hamlet where he was born in 1917. America’s […]
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As Others See Us
A figurative painting tends to be a representation of an unidentified person, a generalized image of the human form, often that of a model. A portrait is a likeness of a particular individual, an attempt in part to capture or conjure his/her being. Since the advent of photography, portrait painting has slowly been relegated to […]
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Old Mayor, New Mayor
POLITICAL AFFILIATION Cianci: Spoke at Republican National Conventions, wanted to be Ronald Reagan’s running mate in 1980, and knows Dick Cheney personally. Cicilline: Cofounded a College Democrats chapter at Brown University with John F. Kennedy Jr., was a delegate to a Democratic National Convention, and is friendly with Hillary Clinton. BEST RUDY GIULIANI MOMENT Cianci: […]
Mike Stanton’s biography of former Providence mayor Buddy Cianci is the basis of the forthcoming film, The Prince of Providence. Read Yankee‘s newest interview with Buddy Cianci, “What Does It Take to Make a Comeback?“ In these two Yankee Classics, Mike Stanton interviews two city mayors, Buddy Cianci’s successor, David Cicilline, in Providence, RI, and […]
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David Cicilline: Mayor of Providence
From Yankee Magazine March 2005 THWAP! David Cicilline, the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, drives a gloved fist into his sparring partner’s gut. SMACK! WAP! BAP! A pair of red Everlasts flashes in the dim early-morning light. Twice a week, Cicilline begins his day in a boxing ring, channeling the pent-up frustration of governing this […]
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Writers of the Future
For eight years I’ve taught magazine writing at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. The class is always small, seminar-like, about 12 or 13 students. Over 15 weeks we get to know each other well. They write unflinchingly about their lives in personal essays, they explore the lives of strangers in their profiles, and they […]
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Poems and Paintings
Editors Note: This week we have a special treat. Along with two poems by Elizabeth Potter, we also have the paintings that inspired them. It’s rare that we get to feature this kind of collaboration, so I hope you enjoy it. Fog Bank An apparition moves when the sea desires company. Get Our FREE Yankee […]
Richard Stoltzman’s Phoenix in Flight is pretty much what you’d expect from the world’s foremost clarinet soloist: a solid hour of classical repertoire that reminds us why he won the two Grammys and we didn’t. A world away from the squawks and squeaks of our high school band memories, Stoltzman manages his instrument with the […]
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From Cape Cod to Colby
For 18 years, Bevin Engman, an artist on the faculty of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, primarily painted still-lifes. For most of that time, she painted books. Books – open, closed, stacked, shelved, scattered, arranged in an architecture all their own – provided the armature over which she applied paint. There was a formal, academic […]
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The Up Side to Recession
Recently I brought some pants in to Jane’s in Stitches, a tiny nook of a place on a side street in Peterborough, New Hampshire. In her neat, cozy room, Jane sews and alters and repairs whatever it is people wear and want to keep wearing. A young man stood in front of me; he had […]