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? 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 by climbing […]
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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 […]
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Alice Nichols | Artisan Profile
Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe In 1984, Alice Nichols started Up Country Inc. with the radical notion that dog collars should be stylish and colorful. At the time, pet accessories were mostly practical affairs, with collars in solid shades of red, blue, brown, and the like. After all, why […]
He was a barn cat, half wild, half tame. When his life hung in the balance, which half saved him?Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe As usual, I let the cats out a few minutes after sunrise on that Sunday last July. We live at the end of the old […]
Everyone loves a title, everyone wants to be special, even entire communities. Take Groton and New London, Connecticut, for example. The good folks of Groton, Connecticut, posted a sign, “You Are Entering the Submarine Capital of the World,” to eliminate confusion, because some people believe that New London, Connecticut, across the Thames River is the […]
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Tales from an Old School Woodworker
When it’s beautiful, Sunny Sweatt and his daughter, Rhoda can be found on their Craftsbury workshop porch, even though by Sunny’s estimate, it takes three times as long to accomplish anything due to all the impromptu visitors. Recently, I was one of their waylayers. When I stopped by, I found the pair sitting together–Sunny’s […]
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Pez | History and Trivia
Manufactured in Orange, Connecticut, since 1974, some 3 billion PEZ candies are gobbled up annually—and that’s just the U.S. consumption.
A stay in a rented summer cottage always seems to start with a note from the owners that reads something like this. Welcome to Bide-A-We!! Before you and the gang rush out to the water, here are a few things you probably ought to know about our beloved home.Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England […]
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Pickle Day | Yankee Classic
When I think back on pickle day, I see Aunt Etta in the side yard. And I hear, at times, the rare sound of my Grandmother’s laughter.
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Yankee Magazine Cover | August 1995
“Beach Umbrella,” by Bart Forbes.