Water is at the heart of Wickford, Rhode Island, where you’ll shop to the tune of gulls, take your morning coffee within sight of swans, and find the harbor a constant companion.
Rhode Island
Publication: Yankee Magazine Special Issues
A legendary family created two magnificent spaces in Shelburne, Vermont, that locals consider the best backyards in the country.
Robert Frost’s final resting place lies in Bennington, Vermont, a small town that loves artists.
Along the Kennebec River lies Hallowell, Maine, a town where the cafés, the people, and the music create what locals call their “New Orleans of the North.”
Massachusetts
Greenfield, Massachusetts | Could You Live Here?
At the start of the Mohawk Trail sits Greenfield, Massachusetts, a scrappy combination of old-time New England and forward thinking, the first designated “green community” in the state.
Connecticut
Essex, Connecticut | Could You Live Here?
With a bucolic setting on the Connecticut River and steeped in history and tradition, Essex, Connecticut, was once named the best small town in America.
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February 2018 (plus)
It might seem a funny time, therefore, to bring up summer. (You might remember it: sun, warmth, T-shirts. Sound familiar?) But long before the calendar flips to June, New England’s premier resorts and hotels are fully booked for the season—places like Winvian Farm in Connecticut, Ogunquit’s Beachmere Inn, and Newport’s Cliffside Inn. These places evoke […]
What if you took the warmest, most inviting features from great New England lodgings and put them under a single roof?
New England
The Best Comfort Foods in New England
Rib-sticking classics meet global flavors in our cozy-dining picks for the best comfort foods in New England.
Vermont
‘Wild Skating’ on Lake Morey
Discovering Nordic-style thrills on the longest ice skating trail in the country at Lake Morey Resort in Vermont.
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December 2017 (plus)
For this issue, we went back to the archives to unearth five of our favorite Christmas-themed Yankee stories. Among them are Jud Hale’s hilarious discovery that Santa is not who he thinks he is, and Donald Hall’s wonderful remembrance of playing you-know-who in his small New Hampshire town. They’re all holiday stories, but they’re also […]
Magazine
How Boston Got Its Christmas Tree
By the time I saw the Tree again, two weeks and more than 700 miles distant from where I first made its acquaintance, I felt as though I knew it better than almost anyone else in the crowd gathered here on Boston Common to greet it. On a mid-November day last year, I had driven […]