For five nights in September 1990, Americans watched, transfixed, Ken Burns’s PBS series The Civil War. We had never seen the conflict through eyes as compassionate and as cinematic as the film Burns had created from his Walpole, New Hampshire, studio. His war was about not just battles, but also ordinary people swept up in […]
It’s never too early to start thinking about leaf-peeping season and plan a fall foliage trip. We’ve pulled together a list of links to help you begin planning your next leaf-peeping adventure. Free Mobile App Find and report on fall foliage in your region! Yankee Magazine‘s Leaf Peepr app helps fall-foliage fans find and report […]
Well, some of the best medical breakthroughs that came from New England. In a region as rich in medical and scientific history as New England, it’s tough put a limit on the number of monumental breakthroughs, so when we set out to include a few as gifts in our special 80th Anniversary Issue (“80 Gifts New England Gave […]
New England Innovations | People and Deeds That Have Inspired a Nation The mosaic-making robot doesn’t have fingers, just a single suction cup that has a sure touch with glass and ceramic tiles. It plucks them from a tray and places them into a 12-inch-by-12-inch grid, creating abstract patterns or recognizable images. Standing next to […]
In those days, the fabled L. L. Bean store in Freeport, Maine, was known principally for snowshoes and what we called “Barker Boots,” the rubber-bottom, leather-top, lace-up item that we thought was in universal use among lumberjacks in the deep woods of the North Country. If the bottoms ever wore out, we knew that L.L. Bean […]
When the townspeople of Craftsbury, Vermont, hang out at the general store, the line blurs between “store” and “story,” a scenario little changed since America’s first country store opened in Adamsville, Rhode Island, in 1788. Little more than a century has passed since folks hitched horses off the porch and rambled into the Craftsbury General Store […]
Our favorite recent letters, Facebook posts, Instagram comments, and tweets. Happy 80th When we arrived home this Monday, August 24th, from a quick weekend to Wells, Maine, our Yankee magazine awaited us in our mailbox. It reminded me of why I love living in New England. As a native, with roots in New Hampshire, Vermont […]
More than one contributor to Arthur Griffin’s New England: The Four Seasons noticed how much livelier than his or her own essay was Griffin’s laconic yet vividly factual account of when and where and how he took the picture. God is in the details, they say; certainly photographic excellence stems from attention to details. That, […]
“Humor can be dissected, as a frog can,” E. B. White famously said, “but the thing dies in the process.” Nevertheless, throwing caution to the wind (along with some lint picked off an old sweater), we examine here the contributions made to the field by Yankee humor, which was anaesthetized using extracts of Town Meeting […]
Autumn’s fruit yields a rich bounty. Most people are surprised to learn that apples, the most American of fruits, aren’t actually native to North America. They originated in Central Asia, growing wild in the foothills of the Tien Shan mountain range until humans carried them west and north along early trade routes. When the first […]
Yankee Classic: Everything unraveled one sultry late-summer afternoon in 1958, the horrifying day that changed the Allagash River forever.
The Glenwood cookstove was America’s first true home appliance. Learn how gradually (very gradually) Yankee contributor Edie Clark learned that she could do many things on this stove that she couldn’t do on a modern stove.
