Deb Bastien and Kate Saliba have been teammates for decades, first as varsity field-hockey players at Bates College, and now in their Boston-based stationery company, where they produce offset-printed and letterpress notes, invitations, calendars, gift wrap, and holiday cards. The business originally started on Cape Cod, where Deb had relocated to be closer to family. […]
Legend has it that George Ernest Arlett, “the father of the Head of the Charles,” was born in an oar box on the working side of England’s storied rowing river town, Henley-on-Thames. He grew up in the early 20th century in a “boatman” family that ran a livery. A skilled professional sculler, “Ernie” Arlett was […]
Every competitor at the Head of the Charles Rowing Regatta comes with a story. But none is quite like the story of the 1980 American women Olympians, whose chance to make history ended forever when the Olympic Games were boycotted in Moscow.
What are tapas? M.T., Weston, MA Tapas are the Spanish equivalent of what the French call hors d’oeuvres, the Italians antipasti, and some other Mediterranean nations mezes — appetizers or small bites of simple foods eaten before, or in lieu of, a big meal. The apocryphal beginnings of the tapas (the verb tapar means “to […]
New England has bragging rights to a whole dinner party’s worth of dishes. Some, like New England Clam Chowder, Boston Baked Beans, and Boston Cream Pie need no explanation. Others, like Indian Pudding, Parker House Rolls, and Johnnycakes may not be immediately familiar, but are no less deserving of their place at the table. In […]
Welcome this edition of “Jud’s New England Journal,” the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, the Editor-in-Chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, New Hampshire. A Modest ProposalGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Might we consider changing the name of Columbus day? It seems to me that […]
The relic boat in the foreground adds interest and depth to the distant abandoned smokehouse located in this secluded down east Maine coastal cove. This location in Trescott, Maine Is known by the name “Baileys Mistake” since back in the 1700’s. The story goes something like this: There was then a renowned sea captain, a […]
Brookline began its life in 1638 as a hamlet of Boston called Muddy River. In 1705, it was independently incorporated, but it remains surrounded on three sides by the city. And despite being home to nearly 60,000 residents, with a population density similar to that of Cambridge, it still stubbornly calls itself a “town,” not […]
At the Lincoln family’s Vermont estate, now a museum, an important piece of American history pulls into the station.
I’m going to let you in on a little secret today. It’s a vintage/antique shop in a town you’ve probably never visited, and it’s wonderful—not just for its inventory, which is well curated, but for its prices. They are easily half what I see at shops in cities and more touristy areas, not to mention […]
On a perfect blue-sky summer day, two dozen members of the New England Unit of the Herb Society of America are mingling over coffee and fresh scones in the South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, garden of Eva Sommaripa. It’s almost time for the day’s main event: a talk and tour with their host, who, in these circles, […]
A visit to beautiful Moosehead Lake in Maine, the largest mountain lake in the eastern United States.
