To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always. -attributed to Hippocrates I saw Mr. C’s last name on the board. Was he still alive? No, the first initial didn’t belong to him…He was long gone… The first time I met Mr. C, he was slumped in a chair, unable to move his right leg. […]
Katherine Nanny Naylor was born in England in 1630 and died in Boston in 1715. Around 1650 she married a rich merchant named Robert Nanny, and when he died after a few years of marriage, she married Edward Naylor. Brother Naylor, although rich from trade in the West Indies, was what we might term today […]
Read Tim Clark’s review of Disaster in Lawrence from the January/February 2008 issue of Yankee. Excerpt from Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill, by Alvin F. Oickle, published by The History Press: John Crawford, a former Pemberton employee, had left his new job at the Washington Mills to search for his daughter, […]
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Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Witnesses reported that at first, it sounded like snow sliding off a roof, a familiar sound on a mild January day in Lawrence, Massachusetts. But on this day–January 10, 1860–the sound was the precursor to one of the worst industrial accidents in the nation’s […]
“I’d walk into the house and Dave [Stephenson] would be standing there, looking up at it,” recalls Baxter Harris. “We had to figure out a way to satisfy the building code and have it look great.” What resulted is, as so often happens with seemingly impossible situations, both creative and masterly: a curving, suspended walkway […]
Yankee food editor Annie B. Copps suggests these — meatloaf, chicken and rice, pancakes, and macaroni and cheese. Tell us yours in the comment box below. Everyone can use a little comfort!
Mochaware pottery pieces are centuries old, yet they look as modern as today’s contemporary art pottery. Learn more about this rare American collectible.
Jon Imber spends part of the year in the city and part of the year in a small coastal village, and his art reflects this movement. Imber moves between abstraction and representation about as easily and seamlessly as any painter I know. Jon Imber burst on the Boston art scene in the late 1970s after […]
Winter in New England might be the season you look forward to all year, or it might be the season you endure, but no matter — we’ve got all of the tips, treats, and must-see places to make winter fun all season long. Grab your mittens and let’s go! #1 Build An IglooFirst, brush up […]
Increasingly, New England’s churches aren’t defined by white steeples on village greens, but by evangelical megachurches changing the religious landscape.
