Tom Padham suiting up for his job in winter is a little like a firefighter donning turnout gear. Both must protect themselves from head to toe against an extreme environment, which for Padham is the Northeast’s highest summit (where last January saw 127 mph gusts and a wind chill of -65). True, Padham can take […]
Credit: courtesy of the Library of Congress “Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.” —Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Though she wrote hundreds of plays, novels, stories, and poems during her lifetime, this Massachusetts author is best known for Little Women. That novel, which turns 150 this year, […]
All the wood heat literature emphasizes that dry wood burns better than wet, which leaves you with two choices: Either get some green wood and put it under cover for a year or so, or burn wood that is already good and dry, wood that you already have, wood that you can identify without special […]
Discovering Nordic-style thrills on the longest ice skating trail in the country at Lake Morey Resort in Vermont.
Empty promises left residents in this part of Vermont with what they’ve always relied on: themselves.
At times, starlight can illuminate what is truly important.
Every Christmas, families across NH are magically transported to the North Pole by train. Learn more about the Polar Express experience in this 1998 Yankee Classic.
What if your faith doesn’t include Christmas as a celebration? Naomi Shulman ponders a blue-and-white Christmas in this touching essay.
A walk and talk with Steve Moffatt, Christmas tree grower.
Press play to listen to Jud’s Journal.
In his new book, Vanishing Vermonters, writer and photographer Peter Miller both honors Vermont and captures a side of his home state he fears we may be losing.
New England is a special place to be during the Christmas season. Here are 5 favorite Christmas classics from the Yankee archives.
