A collection of archival shots and contemporary photos from Mark Fleming capturing a 1930s-inspired winter road trip throughout New England.
Yankee
It’s best not to call the moderator at Town Meeting a liar, and there are a few other “don’ts” we’d suggest, too…
Harold Orne captured the thrill and the drama of skiing New Hampshire’s awesome Tuckerman Ravine. In April 4, 1937, some 2,800 hardy spectators and a small number of ski adventurers, many of them members of the Dartmouth Outing Club, trekked the roughly 2.5 miles from Pinkham Notch, New Hampshire, to the base of the immense […]
History
Nichols House Museum | Photos
A collection of photos from the Nichols House Museum, which offers an intimate look at turn-of-the-last-century domestic life on Beacon Hill in Boston.
Read on to gain invaluable insight from a survivor of New England’s infamous mud seasons.
History
The Red House | Yankee Classic
To one growing up in the oldest continuously occupied house in New England, time seems not linear but circular—patterns repeat, and everything becomes a mirror of something that has happened before.
Magazine
“My New England” Photo Contest Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. 1. HOW TO ENTER: Please submit your photograph(s), maximum submission is 5 photographs, that best define New England. Photographs will be judged based on creativity, composition and the ability to capture a strong sense of place. Previously published or awarded photographs are not […]
Enter the 2016 “My New England” Photo Contest by November 1 for a chance to win cash prizes and be published in Yankee Magazine!
Magazine
Hide and Seek | Inside Yankee
As I’ve said before in this space, sometimes a theme emerges in an issue, unexpectedly, as if it’s been hiding in plain sight. Only when I read the entire issue again, on the first weekend of this new year, did I find this one: the people and places we pass by each day without really […]
Theaters are in Garen Daly’s blood: His grandparents were vaudeville performers. A former theater manager, he also produces the Boston Science Fiction Film Festival—in between hosting The Garen Daly Show on WNTN AM 1550, blogging at FrugalYankee.com, and serving as a movie critic for print, radio, and television. He says that some of America’s most […]
For more than two centuries, lumber from the Wilkins sawmill has built barns and homes, redone kitchens, and framed additions. Tom Wilkins keeps the legacy alive.
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Who Is FERC?
One federal body has the power to decide whether a pipeline is needed. FERC—the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission—issues a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to a project it approves. The commission’s “statement of policy” says that it must consider “the enhancement of competitive transportation alternatives, the possibility of overbuilding, the avoidance of unnecessary disruption […]