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Wreaths for Sale
The Lucy’s Hearth 6th Annual Designer Wreath Sale will be held Saturday, December 2, from 9 to 1 at the Rotunda ballroom at Easton’s Beach in Newport, Rhode Island. For more information about the sale or to find out more about the wreath-making workshops, visit lucyshearth.org or call 401-847-2021.
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Wreath Sale: A Circle for Life
Christmas lights twinkle in a greenhouse in Tiverton, Rhode Island. People haul unwieldy stacks of evergreens from car trunks and the backs of pickups and station wagons through the frosty night. The greenhouse at Manchester Tree & Landscaping pulsates with conviviality while pruning shears snap to the Supremes’ Christmas Collection. It is the night of […]
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America’s Bloodiest War
In 1600, southern New England was home to approximately 90,000 Indians. Approximately 12,000 were Pokanokets, a tribe living at the head of Narragansett Bay. From 1616 to 1619, bubonic plague, introduced by European fishermen in Maine, killed up to 90 percent of the Indians in some areas along the New England coastline. Massasoit, sachem (leader) […]
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A Pilgrim Primer
English Separatists, a wing of the new Puritan movement, had fled oppression at home and found refuge in the Netherlands around 1607. In 1620, part of the congregation decided to build a new life in the New World. Their pastor, John Robinson, stayed behind and did not live to join his flock in America. The […]
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Why the Pilgrims Still Matter
A conversation with Mayflower author Nathaniel Philbrick about why the Pilgrims still matter in today’s world. Why We Should Care About the Pilgrims The Pilgrims were America’s first illegal immigrants. Their patent did not apply that far north, and yet they said, “We’re going to go our way and the heck with you guys.” We […]
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Iwo Jima Remembered
At the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, a bronze memorial stretching 78 feet from its base to the tip of the flagpole recreates the stunning moment caught by the late photographer Joe Rosenthal. Rene Gagnon was one of the three surviving members of the flag raising who modeled for the sculpture. New Hampshire […]
Rene Gagnon was just 18, a high school dropout who worked in the textile mills of his native Manchester, New Hampshire, when he became a Marine in May 1943. Less than two years later, it was Rene, a month shy of 20, who carried the American flag — the second one to fly that day […]
In the dunes between Race Point, Provincetown, and High Head in North Truro sit 17 dune shacks, originally constructed out of driftwood and found materials between 1935 and 1950. These shelters, which replaced even older structures used as rescue stations, are now part of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Two organizations have an agreement with […]
For two weeks last fall, photographer Alison Shaw lived in a tiny shack on Cape Cod as part of an artist’s residency. She had no running water, no electricity, and no heat; the nearest road was a 30-minute hike away, up and over the dunes. Heaven. At the remote tip of Cape Cod lies a […]
Welcome to the June 2007 edition of “Jud’s New England Journal,” the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, editor-in-chief of Yankee Magazine, published for over 70 years in Dublin, New Hampshire.This month “Jud’s New England Journal” is brought to you by The New England Quarterly: Publishing the history of our region for eight decades. […]
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Book Review: Wild Acadia
Jerry and Marcy Monkman, frequent Yankee contributing photographers, first visited Acadia National Park together in 1989. Since then, they have traveled to the park at least once a year. Their love of Acadia is evident in their new book, Wild Acadia (University Press of New England), due out May 31. The book highlights this regional […]