Season 3

Weekends with Yankee travel to the most climbed mountain in New England, Mount Monadnock, to learn what makes it so special.

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, cohost Richard Wiese experiences the thrill of the Kennebec River, New England’s top whitewater rafting destination.

Weekends with Yankee co-host Richard Wiese visits the MacDowell Colony, an artists’ colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, where they foster the arts. The Colony has hosted such legends as composers Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein and Our Town playwright Thornton Wilder. This video was created in partnership with the New Hampshire Division of Travel and […]

For a season 3 episode of Weekends with Yankee, we experienced the thrill of Maine’s Kennebec River, New England’s top whitewater rafting destination. Here’s a longer list of places where you can enjoy a Maine white-water rafting adventure.

Portland is arguably New England’s best bakery town, and Two Fat Cats is one of our favorites. Their fabulous wild Maine blueberry pie piles a mix of blueberries, lemon, cinnamon, nutmeg, and sugar into a flaky crust.

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, cohost Richard Wiese experiences the thrill of the Kennebec River, New England’s top whitewater rafting destination. Then we rise with the sun in Bremen, Maine, and head out with the “puffin man,” National Audubon researcher Stephen Kress, who almost single-handedly returned puffin pairs, and their pufflings, back to Maine. Finally, cohost Amy Traverso joins Connecticut chef and foraging expert Bun Lai to learn how to find delicious food in unexpected places.

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, cohosts Richard Wiese and Amy Traverso visit Mayfair Farm, a sustainable New Hampshire farm that’s cooking up incredible dinners and raising healthy, and happy, livestock. Next, it’s all aboard for a trip to the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on a perfect New England day. Then Richard suits up and gets up close and personal with the bee colonies at Red Bee Honey in Weston, Connecticut. Finally, Amy makes some delicious desserts with actress Sandra Bullock’s sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, at her baking school in Vermont.

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, cohost Amy Traverso visits with legendary chef Jacques Pépin at his Connecticut home and helps cook up a couple of his favorite French–New England fusion dishes. Next, we travel to the most climbed mountain in New England, Mount Monadnock, to learn what makes it so special. Then cohost Richard Wiese gets a thrill from custom-built Ducati motorcycles, made in New England and shipped to some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Finally, it’s off to Vermont to meet two world-famous craftsmen, Simon and Andrew Pearce, a father-and-son team whose glassblowing and woodturning talents have built an international brand.

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, we discover why nothing says summer in New England like Tanglewood, as cohost Amy Traverso heads out to the Berkshires to see what it takes to make the perfect picnic for this famous music festival. Next, we travel to Williamstown, Massachusetts, to experience the Williamstown Theatre Festival and catch a performance by Matthew Broderick in a new play called The Closet. Then it’s over to New Hampshire to tour the Saint- Gaudens National Historic Site, the former home of one of America’s greatest sculptors. Finally, cohost Richard Wiese visits the MacDowell Colony, an artists’ colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, that has hosted such legends as composers Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein and Our Town playwright Thornton Wilder.

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, cohost Richard Wiese jumps into the world of Bangs Island Mussels, a pioneering fishery in Portland, Maine, that’s producing more than 250,000 pounds of sustainable shellfish a year. Then it’s up to the Bold Coast of Maine, home to New England’s most beautiful coastal trail. Next, cohost Amy Traverso heads to Connecticut’s famous Litchfield Hills to visit Arethusa Farm, where the cows get shampooed every day and their milk is turned into award-winning cheese and ice cream. Finally, it’s all about the mountains and the great outdoors at Vermont’s Trapp Family Lodge, founded by the family made famous by the movie The Sound of Music.

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, cohost Richard Wiese sets sail in the sailing capital of the world: Newport, Rhode Island. From there we travel to Westerly, Rhode Island, a coastal town of tranquil beauty. Then it’s north to the rugged Bold Coast of Maine to see the largest whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere. Finally, cohost Amy Traverso travels around New Hampshire to get a taste of the classic New England general store.