I hewed the road out of wilderness in 1779 with my pickaxe as one of Colonel Hazen’s men. I took over the yoke in 1789 when one of the oxen sickened, pulling the sled the last hundred miles to Wolcott. I herded a thousand turkeys over to Boston in 1826, making twelve miles a day […]
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New England
New England Fall Foliage Outlook For 2012
Perhaps you haven’t noticed yet, but there are signs of fall beginning to show up all around us. The sun is setting a little earlier, and rising a little later. The birdsongs of spring and summer have quieted now as the birds molt before migrating. The last of the wildflowers: the goldenrod, the JoePye weed, […]
Magazine
A Day at the SoWa Market
Every Sunday from May through October, the open-air SoWa Market in Boston’s South End entices with food, craft, and vintage market finds – plus food trucks!
Magazine
Oh, Canada, Their New and Native Art
Oh, Canada (not to be confused with the Canadian national anthem O Canada) is a survey of contemporary art from Canada at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in the far western Mass. Art mecca of North Adams (through April 1, 2013). I am indebted to my colleague Greg Cook of the Boston […]
Sean Litchfield is a Boston-based editorial and fine art photographer. A Cape Cod native, Litchfield holds a BS in Photography and works in large and medium format film as well as digital. He produces earnest, beautiful images that evoke the deep sense of uneasiness that marks the contemporary landscape. Ordinary scenes are rendered extraordinary, evocative […]
Connecticut
Coventry Farmers’ Market in Coventry, CT
No matter where I travel around New England from May through October, I am always thinking about which Farmers’ Market I can visit as part of my trip, and I know I’m not alone. The popularity of community markets has grown so much over the past few years that it seems most towns set aside […]
Everyone is talking about the weather this summer. With record-breaking days more often then not, it’s hard NOT to talk about the weather. I remember the first summer I moved to Boston. Coming from the Midwest, where central air is the norm, I was shocked to find that most apartments didn’t have air conditioning at […]
Summer is in full swing, and it’s a HOT one this year. Most of the country is experiencing record breaking temperatures already! To beat the heat, we’ve been doing everything we can to avoid using the oven to cook dinner. This means a lot of salads — like this recipe for grilled chicken salad with […]
Welcome to the July 2012 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, N.H. There Are No Heart Attacks Among Native New Englanders None at all. The simple explanation has to do with the way we speak… There are […]
Cooking Advice
4th of July Desserts and Traditions
One of my favorite holidays is the 4th of July’s, America’s Independence Day. Because it falls smack in the middle of summer, the 4th has always been a holiday I associate with swimming pools, hot dogs dripping with ketchup, cold cans of orange soda, drawing my name with sparklers, and a delicious roster of 4th […]
Where to Stay in Hull, Massachusetts: Josephine’s on the Bay Homey and relaxing, Jospehine’s sets out to capture the pace and feel of a beach community of the 1920s. The B&B has only three rooms, which means that there is plenty of individual attention to go around. www.josephinesbandb.com/index.php Where to Eat in Hull, Massachusetts: […]
New England
Best 5 Classic Baseball Fields
Contributing editor Jim Collins wrote about fields of dreams in The Last Best League (Da Capo Press, 2004), a narrative account of one season in the fabled Cape Cod Baseball League. “Of course, no ballpark in New England–or anywhere else–can touch Fenway Park,” he says. “But you already know that.” For photos and histories of […]