On re-embracing the business and blessings of homesteading.
Yankee
When small New England colleges fail, the towns they call home share the pain. But one Maine college has found the way to pass the ultimate test.
Maine’s World Traveler Signpost in Lynchville has been a roadside attraction for nearly a century.
Magazine
The Heron | First Person
A backyard visitor offers a lesson on what it means to be still.
Magazine
E.B. White | Uncommon Sense
“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.” —E.B. White (July 11, 1899–October 1, 1985) This celebrated writer and longtime Mainer lived through some of the nation’s most tumultuous times—the Great Depression and two world wars, not to mention the Cold War and […]
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5 Questions with Deirdre Heekin
Catching up with the noted Vermont winemaker and Weekends with Yankee guest.
A race riot engulfed New York City that March, sparked by rumors that police had killed a Black teenager accused of shoplifting and fueled by the Depression’s staggering unemployment. Sweeping through other parts of the country were cataclysmic weather events that would force hundreds of thousands to uproot. Political battle lines hardened between FDR and those who declared his New Deal and Social Security Act to be examples of un-American socialism. Distant rumblings of militaristic countries threatening neighbors made people unsettled and anxious. This was America in 1935, when in September, Robb Sagendorph published the first issue of Yankee.
History
Jimmies | New England Lexicon
Jimmies (known as “sprinkles” outside New England) are the granddaddy of ice cream toppings, but where did the name “jimmies” come from?
Magazine
Dear Yankee | September/October 2020
Readers respond to their favorite Yankee magazine articles.
Mark Twain was never without cats, even when he traveled. In a pinch, he would even rent kittens. Find out more…
From the first recorded human fatality by a shark to Jaws and frozen sharks in the news, we’re looking back at 250 years of New England shark history.
Connie Small dreamed of being a painter but somehow became a lighthouse keeper’s wife instead.