When Maine passed an 1897 bill requiring hunting guides to register with the state, the first license issued went to ‘Fly Rod’ Crosby, a sportswoman and journalist whose natural flair for public relations had helped establish western and northern Maine as outdoor-sports destinations.
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They’re an unlikely pairing for immortality together: Alfred Eisenstaedt, a German-born photographer who roamed New York with his Leica for Life magazine, and George Mendonça, a young sailor, just back from World War II, who was raised in a Rhode Island fishing family and would soon return to that life. In a Times Square instant […]
Jud Hale, Yankee’s editor-in-chief, is one of New England’s greatest gifts to America. Still the editor. Still the chief.
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A Laugh Worth Remembering
Welcome to the October 2015 edition of Jud’s New England Journal, the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, the Editor-in-Chief of Yankee Magazine, published in Dublin, N.H. for the last 80 years. A Laugh Worth Remembering It seems like yesterday…Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe All my life […]
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Ken Burns | New England’s Gifts
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 […]
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Plan a Fall Foliage Trip
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 […]
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Feedback | Autumn 2015
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, […]