What if your faith doesn’t include Christmas as a celebration? Naomi Shulman ponders a blue-and-white Christmas in this touching essay.
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New England
5 Best Places to See Mrs. Claus in New England
Meet the multitasking woman who keeps Christmas on track in our list of 5 best places to see Mrs. Claus in New England.
A walk and talk with Steve Moffatt, Christmas tree grower.
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5 Classic Yankee Christmas Stories
New England is a special place to be during the Christmas season. Here are 5 favorite Christmas classics from the Yankee archives.
Being the town Santa is not all ho-ho-ho and Merry Christmas. A report from the Yankee archives explains the other side of the beard.
Credit: Paula Lerner It’s a long road to Rangeley. Route 4 twists through miles of thickly forested land, rising and falling as it heads north from Augusta, and on winter nights snowbanks narrow the road, shining white in the headlights, tunneling through the darkness. Surrounded by the mountains and lakes of western Maine, Rangeley has […]
Credit: Tim Tomkinson I was 7, and I was a Sugarplum Fairy. Standing backstage in my sequined blue tutu, I was awestruck — not by the spotlights, but by the hundreds of tiny colored bulbs on the enormous Christmas tree at the center of the stage. A teacher whispered frantically behind me: I was missing […]
The day of celebrating light dawns dark and cheerless. A cold east wind drives freezing mist up the valley, out of Caribou, across a half-dozen miles of frozen Aroostook potato field. In New Sweden the farmhouses are lit. On Jacobson Hill and Bondeson Corner, on Route 161 toward Jemtland, smoke rises from chimneys to greet […]
A nostalgic remembrance of New England Christmases past from the Yankee archives by editor-in-chief Judson D. Hale.
As Christmas approaches, Santa Claus will be popping up in some jolly interesting places. Here are 5 favorite spots that aren’t the mall.
Living
Dear Yankee | December 2017
I want to commend the subtle way in which your editing has broadcast the message that the faces of New England cross religious and racial lines; that this part of the country is more inclusive than one associates with its origins. In the November/December issue, there was the Christmas tree story that noted customers were […]
New England
This Issue | What’s Old Is New Again
It’s about a three-second walk from my office to the room where we keep the Yankee archives. Whoo, that place can be a time-suck. Many a time I’ve ventured into the room to look up an old article only to emerge, half an hour later, with a new appreciation for bean hole suppers, Stephen King’s […]