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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 […]
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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 […]
When you pay attention to the ground in winter, and if you are being guided by someone who can read a winter ground as easily as a book, these questions emerge: Is that track from a walker, hopper, bounder, or waddler? Are those teeth marks on the trees? On the day I join the Curious […]
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Adoption Resources in New England
More than 6 million Americans are adoptees; surveys indicate that at least half of them search for a birth parent’s identity at some point in their lives. Laws governing an adoptee’s degree of access to his or her original birth certificate and adoption file vary from state to state. From the 1920s until the 1970s, […]
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Baby Boy #3331: An Adoption Story
Dear Rosalie, It has taken me almost 40 years to finally ask about you. For years now, I’ve had all the papers my adoptive parents kept. The papers call me simply “baby boy #3331.” They came from the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers, as you knew it then, in Burlington, Vermont. In the bundle […]
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A Letter to Our Readers
I know in most instances you’ll glance at an editor’s letter and zip by. I’m the new editor of Yankee, and I hope you’ll stay with me a moment longer. From the time I published my first story in this magazine, more than 300 issues have left our Dublin, New Hampshire, offices, each one different […]