Three seasons of work is revealed inside the farmer’s freezer. Even as my pastures are sealed inside a white vault of snow, and the garden, too, huddles in a bunker called “winter,” so my basement contains a microcosm of the farm at large. All that I’ve raised—the meat and produce of both venues—is held in […]
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Trailblazers | Nordic Skiing
New Hampshire’s thriving Nordic ski scene owes a debt to the visionaries who saw the future and worked to make it happen. It takes courage—and a good dose of blind optimism—to see the hilly, rock-filled forests of New Hampshire as the landscape for a thriving winter pastime. But in the mid-1970s, that was exactly what […]
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Comfort Food and Family in Vermont
Heath Robbins makes his living as a photographer. He is the man we turn to (as do many national magazines) when we need to capture people and food in natural settings. So when we asked him to turn his camera on his own family and the meals they prepare, he headed straight to his parents’ […]
New Englanders pack a certain reverence for big weather. There’s a pride in claiming to have lived through some of the most challenging stuff nature can throw our way. Winter, especially. The Blizzard of ’78. The Ice Storm of ’98. The list goes on. If you experienced last winter’s snows, you know what I mean. […]
Nobody who knew the Hewitt family could believe they were leaving.
New England is the birthplace of many notable inventions, but these three in particular are prized for their contributions to parties everywhere.
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Dear Yankee | February 2016
Our favorite recent letters, Facebook posts, Instagram comments, and tweets. Revolutionary Tea icon-envelope I read your article about the Boston Tea Party tea chest (November/December, p. 52) and thought you’d enjoy this absolutely true story. A few years ago my parents went to England, and my mother went gift shopping at Fortnum & Mason’s. The […]
New Englanders take a variety of approaches to snow removal. Here we present Yankee’s guide to snow shoveling, mainly so that we don’t have to go out and do it ourselves.
Does your property belong on the National Register of Historic Places? Since 1966, when it was created under the authority of the National Historic Preservation Act, the National Register of Historic Places has been identifying America’s historic resources and listing those most worthy of preservation. That list now includes more than 90,000 properties. Inclusion signifies […]
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On the Pond | Mary’s Farm
For a child, watching her grandfather skate created a memory where truth and myth lived side by side. My grandfather, whom we called Bim, loved to skate. He loved to do anything outdoors. He’d climbed the Matterhorn and surfed in Honolulu, and he did back flips off the high diving board until he was in his […]
271 estimated travel time in minutes between Boston and Montreal if the high-speed New England rail corridor is ever built. Driving between the two cities, under ideal conditions, takes about 320 minutes. 5,000 cars caught on camera running red lights during a six-month-long study in 2005 in Auburn and Lewiston, Maine. Not surprisingly, the two […]