The perfect pint? “It takes patience and about three pours — at least four minutes,” says David Coakley. He’s been in the States 20 years, and for the past two he’s been pulling the tap at the Plough & Stars pub. He has more than enough patience to go around. Everyone knows him there, and […]
Yankee
A three-mile climbing drive brings you to a hillside of berry bushes laden with so much fruit that the blue color looks like a mirage, and in the distance there’s Mount Monadnock. Fenella Levick, her husband, Anthony, and their three children sell jams, jellies, baked goods, smoothies, and crafts. But the most important job is […]
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Jill Hoy, Painter, Stonington, Maine
Come summer, meeting a Maine artist is no problem. Meeting a good one can be. If you want to meet a real artist in a real Maine fishing village, you definitely want to stop by to see Jill Hoy in her Stonington gallery. Jill’s paintings are joyous celebrations of everything we love about Maine: the […]
If Eben Horton minds the crowd of tourists, he doesn’t show it. His studio operates out of an old-fashioned gas station. Even with the twin bay doors flung open, the heat is oppressive. Lifting, turning, blowing, his craft is an endurance challenge. He gets just 20 seconds at a time to work the glass at […]
For 24 years, vaudevillian Mark “Woody” Keppel has slipped into the skin of his alter ego, Woodhead. Hitching up his Bermuda shorts, tripping over props, flailing away on any instrument that’s handy, and juggling with frantic fury, he’s entertained on six continents, in theaters from Beijing to Berlin. “I’m just out there humiliating myself for […]
A warm evening breeze drifts over Tanglewood. The muted sounds of flutes, clarinets, violins, and a harp join the rustle of pine boughs overhead. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is tuning up, preparing for tonight’s concert: Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle and a Brahms symphony. Cellist Owen Young walks among the picnickers, tucking away their hampers. They spread […]
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25 People You Must Meet This Summer!
If you love laughter, music, craftsmanship, ice cream, history, heart-stopping scenery, wooden boats, old trains, the best popcorn anywhere, and downright fun and quirky people, come see these unforgettable New Englanders. Here are 25 people you should meet this summer!
Contemporary Collaborations: Artist and Master Printer at the Portland Museum of Art features fine art prints by 30 artists who worked with master printers to create lithographs, serigraphs, etchings, aquatints, silkscreens, monotypes and mixed media multiples of all kinds. Most if not all of the artists have Maine connections, but this is by no means […]
Welcome to the June 2008 edition of “Jud’s New England Journal,” the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, editor-in-chief of Yankee Magazine published since 1935 in Dublin, New Hampshire. Anyone Ever See a Sailing Ship on Fire? We love taking the Point Judith Ferry (Galilee, Rhode Island) out to Block Island, and so do […]
Connecticut
California Comes to New Britain, Connecticut
New Britain Museum of American Art is an easily overlooked jewel in the crown of New England culture. I confess I had never been to New Britain, Connecticut, let alone to the New Britain Museum of American Art before stopping by last week on my way to a soccer tournament. New Britain on a Sunday […]
Dylan in the Movies is the type of band I can’t help but root for. The band’s founder and lead singer, Brian Sullivan, is the kind of tenacious underdog musician you want to see make it big. His story is classic — practically archetypal. A regular guy who grew up on the periphery of the […]
As often seems to happen with the inspiration for museum exhibitions, the idea for Georgia O’Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity occurred to Portland Museum of Art curator Susan Danly as she was looking at photographs in the museum’s own collection. The Portland Museum of Art happens to own three portraits of the […]