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Learning the New England Language

Just when you think you’ve mastered the New England language, you soon discover more exceptions than examples…

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Tracking Maine Black Bears | Photographs

Follow a team of wildlife biologists, including photographer Carl D. Walsh, into the winter shelters (yes, that means the dens) of Maine black bears.

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How to Take the Plunge | Ask the Expert

If you want the best tips on jumping into icy water for a good cause, just talk to New Hampshire’s Bill Jones: He’s got the Penguin Plunge down cold.

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The Mapparium | Up Close

When you walk into the Mapparium at the Mary Baker Eddy Library at Boston’s Christian Science Center, you enter a world like no other.

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Life in the Kingdom | The Wheel Deal

Vermont claims a state bird (hermit thrush), a state flower (red clover), and a state mammal (Morgan horse), but its truest symbol may be its unofficial state automobile, the Subaru.

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Dear Yankee | Our Readers Respond

We received many wonderful online comments on our November/December story “A Fatal Mistake,” about the sinking of the container ship El Faro. Here are four of the most memorable.

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Hard Drive | Mary’s Farm

The GPS crowd learns that when it comes to country roads, some are less taken for a reason.

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