A chance encounter stirs the author’s memory of the man who gave him a new life.
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Yankee
Is this New England’s greatest gift to America? Well, it’s just our opinion…
We asked Henry Traverso, author of The Art Lover’s Pocket Guide, to share his choices for the 5 best small museums in New England.
Every year at this time, as the last note of “Deck the Halls” fades into the general hubub of Christmas party conversation, the question hangs in the air, unasked: What exactly does the phrase “troll the ancient Yuletide carol” mean? Wonder no more. This troll is not a monster found beneath bridges or a method […]
In November 1888 a 22-year-old Vermont woman named Kate Gillette was plucking and dressing turkeys for the Boston market on her family’s East Randolph farm while waiting for a teaching job to start in December. Worried about how she would live on the $7 a week that the position paid, she tried a novel variant […]
North of where you’re reading this, there’s a hayfield with rolling hills, and in a certain portion which probably made poor hay, a farmer thought, “Well, let’s try some balsams.” And in the spring of 2003, he did. Had you visited this plantation last week, you would have wandered across the sprawling meadow into a […]
On the first day of 1802, the residents of Cheshire, Massachusetts, presented Thomas Jefferson with perhaps the oddest gift ever offered to a U.S. president — a stupendous cheese weighing 1,235 pounds. A local paper reported how the event came about. “The old dairy town, in a triumphant mass meeting, resolved to put its curds […]
By the late 1960s, there hadn’t been wild turkeys in New Hampshire for more than a century. Then wildlife biologist Ted Walski came along.
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The Lure of a Simpler Life
If someone offered you a simpler life, would you take it? I did once. It was just before the birth of my son and I was working as a reporter for a daily newspaper in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The hours were unpredictable and the work was frustrating at best (covering territorial politics is a […]
Sometimes simply being able to carry an armload of wood is reason enough to give thanks.
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True Stories | My Creative Neighbor
For many years I drove by a little hand painted sign stuck in a lawn that said, “Free To See.” Then one day I pulled in the drive and knocked on the door and asked the lady who answered, “Just what am I free to see?” Coincidentally, that’s how Yankee’s contributing photographer, Corey Hendrickson also […]