Town greens established in the 18th century, or village greens as they’re more commonly known today, were thought to have been used for militia training, the grazing of livestock, and, at times, public punishment. Cast your vote for the prettiest town green in New England in the comment section below! And if you have a […]
Across the high country of Vermont and New Hampshire and down the coast from Portland to Boston, our time-travel adventure takes you from ski slopes to cities where classic New England endures.
Inspired by a Maine farm, we found five new ways to celebrate the classic New England pairing of franks & beans.
A painting showed a young woman what love looked like. And then it came to life.
Most of New England disagrees with the dictionary definition of scrod, saying that it isn’t a fish at all, though what a scrod is seems vary.
How Boston cream pie — a French-inspired cake — became New England’s favorite pie. Well, sort of …
Susan Cole Kelly is a published photographer and author. She started her avocation as a New England stock photographer while working in an IT career in Boston. Since taking early retirement she has been able to devote more time to photography, and now travels throughout the region taking photos which are used by publishers of […]
Yankee Magazine’s editors have been snapping photos of New England for our Instagram feed for a few years now. See their photos of winter in New England.
Flavor, fragrance, and memory turn a Christmas treat into a timeless tradition. It seems as though at the exact moment when the last leaf falls each year, the gingerbread appears. From the bakery to the coffee shop to the drugstore (gingerbread-flavored lip balm, anyone?), this sweet-and-spicy combination of ginger and molasses, preferably in traditional cake […]
1892 year The Nutcracker ballet débuted in St. Petersburg, Russia 2012 year Boston reimagined its Nutcracker performance 3,600 jewels worn by the Sugar Plum Fairy 363 Boston Ballet students auditioning for The Nutcracker (only Boston Ballet students are considered) 8 dancers hidden under Mother Ginger’s skirt 2,400 Boston Ballet performances of The Nutcracker since 1963 […]
Historic New England is now the keeper of a collection of over 2,000 images, mostly glass plate negatives, that used to be stored here in a small outbuilding at the Yankee offices in Dublin, New Hampshire. The images were originally purchased by the magazine to be used to illustrate a number of books about early life in […]
The familiar phrase “go for the jugular” comes from a remark by 19th-century Boston lawyer and U.S. Senator Rufus Choate, describing John Quincy Adams, another Massachusetts resident and sixth president of the United States: “He has peculiar powers as an assailant, and almost always, even when attacked, gets himself into that attitude by making war […]
