On Route 100 in Vermont, between Morrisville and Stowe, Thea Alvin’s unique stone arches, circles, and sculptures are a familiar sight. “Does your husband do this?” the man asks Thea Alvin, as he sweeps his arm, a gesture encompassing all that can be seen from the road: the loop de loop rock wall and an […]
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Constant Comment
Since 1945, the Bigelow Tea Company has been supplying New England and beyond with quality teas, and none is more popular than the brand’s signature blend, Constant Comment. It was invented by Ruth Campbell Bigelow in the kitchen of her New York City brownstone in 1945. Unhappy with the teas available on the market at […]
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Good Enough for Eve | Mary’s Farm
Apples. Have they been with us since the beginning of time? If you believe the story of Adam and Eve, then they were here before we were, since quite a few years pass between the time a seed is planted and the time a good apple can be plucked from the tree’s branches and eaten. […]
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Charles W. Morgan | Video
Watch the crew of the Charles W. Morgan prepare the whaling ship for sea.
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September/October 2014 Cover
1623 year Myles Standish proposed creating a canal separating Cape Cod from the Massachusetts mainland for safer, more efficient travel 291 years until the canal finally opened:July 29, 1914 600+ number of people who drowned in those shipwrecks Fourteen ThousandGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe boats now passing through the […]
The Northern Quahog | Up Close The deep waters of the open ocean are too salty for the northern quahog’s comfort, so these hard-shelled clams live buried in the sandy bottoms of estuaries along the Atlantic coast. They’re most prevalent between Cape Cod and New Jersey, with Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay a prime source. Ever […]
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Gearing up for Apple Season
It’s always exciting to see the first local apples in the markets. I saw some this past weekend at a farm stand on the New York/Vermont border. They were labeled “Early Macs,” which means they were probably just McIntosh apples that ripened early. Here’s a roundup of the early season apples you’ll most commonly find […]
On a weekend camping trip near Palm Springs we stopped at a remote supermarket for supplies. Around the soup section, I discovered a real old-timer. His wrinkled face was red and rough, and his pushcart contained only two items: cranberry juice and Cape Cod potato chips. “With your taste in food, you could be from […]
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Yankee Magazine Cover | August 1973
“People on the Beach, Ogunquit, Maine,” by Mabel Woodward.
We asked steeplejack Jay Southgate…What’s the Point? [slideshow post_id=”557637″] Jay Southgate is the owner of Southgate Steeplejacks, headquartered on the grounds of a former granite-processing facility in Websterville, Vermont. A steeplejack is … wait … we’ll let Jay tell you himself. Suffice it to say that he and his four “awesome employees” make their living […]
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Bud | A Vermont Dog
Bud was a Vermont dog, a purebred malamute. He lived in and about Adamant, a village bounded by mountains and set in a curving bowl of fields, woods, marshes, and ponds. Bud was brought to Adamant by Louis Porter, a ten-year-old boy, during the summer of 1986, but in September of that year, when Lou […]