I think I must have been about eight years old the first time I felt the Atlantic Ocean at the Cape call to me. I remember that particular trip so well: the first whiff of the briny air, the turn up a sandy dirt road, and my mother saying, “Listen you can hear the ocean […]
1. Budget gift: New England food baskets. 2. Recipes for budget food gifts from Annie B. Copps’ Today Show video. 3. Plan your menu. Recipes for Side dishes and the turkey. 4. Decorate with nature and color and Matthew Mead ideas. 5. Alone on Thanksgiving? Create a family around the holiday table. 6. Perfect pie […]
A photograph is essentially a split second in time captured on film or digitally, a record of what light revealed for the instant the shutter was open. Most of the time when you’re looking at a photograph, you are seeing something like 1/125th of a second captured from the eternal present as it passes before […]
The most wonderful part of winter in New England is Christmas in Vermont. See how three towns – Grafton, Chester, and Woodstock – celebrate their own Christmas in Vermont.
Welcome to the November 2008 edition of “Jud’s New England Journal,” the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, editor-in-chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, New Hampshire. When “Maudlin” Was “In” Years ago in New England, people viewed death and dying quite differently …Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! […]
Seeing Boston Ballet’s The Nutcracker for the first time is a special memory for writer Annie Graves. If it made such an impact on a child in the audience, what about the children who perform onstage? Yankee‘s Justin Shatwell talks with one of the girls who played Clara in Boston. Backstage photos of last year’s […]
More times than I can count we made the yearly pilgrimage. Driving dark, icy roads from a small town in southern New Hampshire, we slid into the brilliance of Boston, threading through narrow streets to our destination: the warmth and light of the Boston Opera House, glowing like a beacon of Art and Culture. Inside […]
Find out how many lights there are in Forest Park and other holiday facts 600,000 holiday lights in the “Bright Nights at Forest Park” display, Springfield, MA 41 Pilgrims signing the Mayflower Compact while docked in Provincetown Harbor (Nov. 11, 1620) 0 native wild turkeys in MA in 1852Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England […]
Despite the sophistication and high income levels of Boston’s South Shore, there’s a dearth of good dining options. While hard to find (it’s a half-mile or so down a dirt road), Martha’s Stone Soup at the Tavern stands out amidst Plymouth’s chain-restaurant options for the earnest, seasonal meals coming from its kitchen. Chef/owner Martha Stone […]
One of my favorite New England writers is John Hanson Mitchell, whose Ceremonial Time (1984) investigated the “deep history” of Scratch Flat, a one-square-mile piece of ground 35 miles northwest of Boston, from the Ice Age to the Digital Age. His new book, The Paradise of All These Parts (Beacon Press; $24.95), attempts the same […]
To stoic Yankee stock, I’m that most unnatural of New Englanders: a person who wears her heart on her sleeve. I exude enthusiasm and fail to mask disdain. A feeler and a talker, I understand, and at times, over-share. It’s no wonder I’ve never been much of a card player. A close-to-the-vest stance seems to […]
Expert advice on heating old houses from home-improvement expert Tom Silva. In an age of rising fuel prices, can we still love old homes?
