The last person to see Abraham Lincoln didn’t pass away until almost a hundred years after Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865.
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A Home of One’s Own | The Farmer’s Life: Dispatches from Chickadee Farm in Craftsbury, Vermont
Making a house yours sometimes means building upon all that came before.
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Bird Man | A Thousand Words
In the upcoming May issue of Yankee, we profile Nantucket’s longtime doctor and only surgeon, Tim Lepore. Here, Yankee senior photographer Mark Fleming tells the tale behind a selected outtake from the piece.
Living
A Home of One’s Own | The Farmer’s Life: Dispatches from Chickadee Farm in Craftsbury, Vermont
Making a house yours sometimes means building upon all that came before.
Magazine
Weekends with Yankee Unlocks the Best of New England in New 13-episode Travel & Lifestyle TV Series
BOSTON [March 7, 2017] – “Weekend” warriors, take heart! With New England as one of the nation’s favorite tourist destinations, the iconic Yankee magazine and public media powerhouse WGBH have teamed up to launch Weekends with Yankee, a captivating 13-episode documentary series this spring. The half-hour series taps into Yankee magazine’s extensive behind-the-scenes access to […]
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Ocean Walks, Secret Paths, And Famous Rambles Revealed in March/April Issue of Yankee Magazine
Plus: Immigration And Hope In Lewiston, ME; Tagging Along With A Country Vet; And A Sneak Peek At Yankee’s New TV Series, Weekends with Yankee, With Senior Food Editor Amy Traverso DUBLIN, NH (March 3, 2017) – With temperatures warming up and spring just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to begin planning outdoor […]
While the world mourned the death of Dr. Seuss, the man who created the Grinch and the Cat in the Hat, in Springfield, MA, they mourned for Theodor Geisel.
It’s been nearly a century since a 7-pound baby boy was born at 83 Beals Street in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. His parents named him John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and it’s almost inconceivable that he would have turned 100 this year, since we know him forever as a president with youth, vigor, and optimism, […]
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Dear Yankee | Our Readers Respond
Getting the Picture Your article on Joel Woods [“A Hard Life Made Beautiful,” January/February] speaks volumes on what it takes to become an artist in photography. The real artist is self-taught and schooled by reality; gets his photo ops in the rough, instantaneously, while being extraordinarily alert and balanced; and uses any camera he can […]
From the Marginal Way in Maine to Bluff Point in Connecticut, here are our 12 favorite places in New England to stroll by the seashore.
Fifty years ago Boston Traveler photographer Harry Trask snapped these three pictures at the Boston Marathon—and runner 261 became a legend.