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If it’s quality summer stock theatre you’re looking for, you’ve found it. Here’s our list of some of the best summer playhouses and theaters in New England.

Yankee’s longtime editor, Mel Allen, shares a list of favorite things to do in Maine — from sailing on the coast to skiing in the mountains.

Kosti Ruohomaa’s classic photographs of rural Maine in the 1940s and 1950s are now being shared with the help of the Penobscot Marine Museum.

For culture, recreation, and youthful energy, our nominees for the best college towns in New England can’t be beat.

In over 40 years of writing about New Englanders, Yankee editor Mel Allen calls the story of Wil Smith and his daughter Olivia the most inspirational.

From thrilling ski contests to tasty food festivals, we’ve rounded up regional events that are worth the drive.

Five wheelbarrows are scattered haphazardly around a large ground-floor workshop in an eccentric, circular building in the woods just a two-minute walk from Maine’s rocky coastline. None of the wheelbarrows looks like the others, and frankly, none looks much like a wheelbarrow. They’re all handmade, four of them by a man named Bill Coperthwaite. (The […]

From ice castles and ice harvests to boat shows and film festivals, these New England winter events are well worth the drive.

Decades after Bowdoin graduate Robert Peary first staked his claim, the path to the North Pole stills runs through his alma mater at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum.

“A great and free country is not merely defense and protection. For every earnest spirit, it is opportunity and inspiration.” —Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828–1914). As a Bowdoin College professor who volunteered for the Union Army, Chamberlain earned the Medal of Honor for defending Little Round Top at Gettysburg in July 1863. During his military service […]

5 Secret Autumn Escapes, 75+ Top Events Of The Season, A Trip On The Connecticut River, The Best Pumpkin Patches And Much More Yankee Also Profiles Bill De La Rosa, From Son Of An Illegal Immigrant To One Of Most Honored College Students In America DUBLIN, NH (September 6, 2016) – The fleeting summer heat has the […]

Few people knew what was driving a young man to become one of the most honored college students in America.