Things that helped brighten our week, in the hopes that they will help brighten yours.
Yankee
In over 40 years of writing about New Englanders, Yankee editor Mel Allen calls the story of Wil Smith and his daughter Olivia the most inspirational.
I am writing this on a blue-sky morning, the day before the first day of spring. In an ordinary year, that would be a touchstone for all of us. Time to plan gardens, to think about summer trips. But this is not an ordinary year. We are all at a place where we are feeling […]
One of America’s oldest chocolate bars, Sky Bar is an old-fashioned New England candy favorite filled with caramel, vanilla, peanut, and fudge.
The Dorr Rebellion of 1842 — perhaps one of the oddest moments in New England history — was Rhode Island’s very own, very small Civil War.
When a police chief and a defense lawyer from a small town in NH took a closer look at the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping and murder case, they found themselves taking on a legend.
Lives are changed when a young asylum seeker in Maine asks a teacher to help him win a national poetry recitation.
Magazine
Life in the Kingdom | The Fix
On getting water from a well without digging too deep into one’s pockets.
Today
The Shark Detective
Greg Skomal has been tailing great white sharks for more than a decade to unravel the many mysteries they raise—including how to deal with their growing numbers off Cape Cod.
Magazine
Dear Yankee | March/April 2020
Readers respond to their favorite Yankee magazine articles.
Magazine
Sweet Spots | Inside Yankee
This is how spring sneaks up on us in New England. The snow softens, and skiers discover March is the kindest month of all. The first songbirds land in our yards, and we think … It’s coming. By early March, we see sap buckets fastened to maples, plastic tubing threading through the forests, smoke pouring from sugarhouses.
The coveted patch is simple enough—red and green with the emblem of a pine tree in its center—but it proclaims its wearers to be the stuff of legend: Registered Maine Guides. Years ago prospective guides just needed to prove outdoors expertise to a local game warden. Today they face a few more hurdles, including choosing […]