At Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, horticulture guru Bill Cullina celebrates the beauty of the state’s most overlooked landscapes: its woodlands. Ninety percent of Maine is woodland: That’s the highest percentage of any state, but it’s no surprise to anyone who has driven north on I-95, a straight line cutting through the endless forest on either […]
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Susan Cole Kelly is a Boston-based photographer and regular contributor to Yankee Magazine and YankeeMagazine.com. She captured the Boston Marathon memorial on Boylston Street in a series of photographs and shares her feelings on how the memorial has affected her and the Boston community. See more of her photographs of Boston at kellypix.com. I avoided […]
With the weather finally warming up, it’s time to head outdoors and enjoy the sunshine! Need some inspiration? Here are some suggestions for the best Massachusetts outdoor activities from the Yankee Magazine 2012 editors’ picks for the Best of New England. Share your picks in the comments! BEST SKY TRAILS Berkshire East Canopy Tours, Charlemont […]
Award-winning photographer Smari grew up in Iceland. He bought his first camera at the age of 14, financed by selling the daily Icelandic newspaper, and has been obsessed with photography ever since. After studying business, Smari left Iceland for California to attend Brooks Institute of Photography. He then crossed the country to Boston and recently […]
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DeCordova’s Boston Biennial
Back in 1987, the then-DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, mounted New England Now: Contemporary Art from Six States, a truly authoritative regional survey of the sort that New England needs. The DeCordova became the New England regional hub for new art under curator Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, but, now renamed DeCordova […]
Note: JD Hale, Yankee Publishing Vice-President, is the great nephew of Yankee Magazine’s founder, Robb Sagendorph. Until last Monday I had not been to the finish of the Boston Marathon since I ran it in 1986. I was a rookie BAA volunteer in my yellow Adidas jacket along with my friend Bill Goodwin and wife, […]
I live in Brookline, Massachusetts, which puts me about 3 miles from the site of this week’s Boston Marathon bombing. We were nowhere near the finish line at the time, having opted to head to Sturbridge Village for the day. But it’s impossible to live in or near the city right now without feeling rattled. […]
Here’s a bright and fresh salad that will satisfy any craving for fresh spring vegetables (and those cravings beginning to hit, thanks to the warming weather). It comes from The Chefs Collaborative Cookbook, a lovely new book from the Boston-based Chefs Collaborative and author Ellen Jackson. If you’re not familiar with the Chef’s Collaborative, they […]
Yankee classic from February 1982 Boston in the summer of 1918 was hot and very dry, with only 8.13 inches of rain in four months, according to the U.S. Weather Bureau. For the men in “Receiving Ship,” a naval barracks on Commonwealth Pier where as many as 7,000 enlistees boarded while awaiting assignment or returning […]
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My Favorite April Moments
Welcome to the April 2013 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, NH. My Favorite April Moments After a long winter, there’s nothing more welcome than the first sighting of a suddenly-open lake. But I recently saw something […]
At a press luncheon on Monday, Marsh 25, the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine previewed the elegant and elemental new Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion which, when it opens on July 13, will make the Colby museum the largest art museum in the state of Maine and one of the premier college art museums in […]
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston is something of a misnomer as New England’s premier all-purpose art museum does not show only fine arts. Currently, for example, several of the most interesting MFA exhibitions feature works of craft, applied art, commercial art and portrait photography. The exhibition that caught my attention is New Blue and […]