Yankee Classic: December 1987 If an entire town can be said to share one ghost, then Newbury, Vermont, has held clear title to Orville Gibson ever since he disappeared 30 years ago this month. It wasn’t until 85 days after he vanished that the town, and then the nation, learned the grim fate of Newbury farmer […]
I wondered if perhaps New England could lay claim to the very first American Christmas tree, so I began rummaging around in our library.
At The Rocks Estate Christmas Tree Farm in Bethlehem, New Hampshire, it’s as though a rural Downton Abbey has merged with Kris Kringle’s village.
It’s not unusual for live Christmas trees to need to be trimmed a bit before they’re decorated. Whether it’s to help fit the tree through the door and into the house or merely to tidy up the branches, clipping some boughs leaves you with a pile of heavenly-scented tree trimmings. Before tossing them into the compost pile, consider these five fun and […]
The traditional white-clapboard exterior of Kristin Nicholas’s 1751 farmhouse betrays no sense of the merry and bright holiday decor within.
Once I believed that the holidays meant rituals of obligation: a Thanksgiving feast, and then with barely a breath in between, an almost obsessive need to bestow gifts. When my sons were young, I filled secret places with toys and gadgets, even making one final sweep on Christmas Eve for that “needed” stocking surprise. I […]
Whimsical shapes just right for the holidays It’s a mix of shadow play and cookie making … “It” is hand-cookie making, which can be as creative as you are and as traditional as you make it. Hand cookies in their simplest form are cut out around an outspread hand—and a child’s hand is the most […]
The growing season may be over, but a gardener’s thoughts are never far from the love of nature’s bounty and the gifts from the good earth. The holidays are a perfect time to celebrate the everlasting spirit of gardening. Read on for five ways to incorporate gardening into holiday decor. Garden-inspired Christmas trees — 3 ways to […]
Many communities put on a show for the holidays, but Christmas celebrations in Manchester and Woodstock, Vermont, are especially festive.
Do you know where your food comes from? It’s a loaded question, one that often leads to even more questions. For the farmers of the Champlain Valley, the region that encompasses some of western Vermont in the area south of Burlington, that question has become a livelihood. I recently traveled to three farms in the […]
While more than 60 lighthouses dot the craggy shoreline of Maine, the most-photographed just might be Cape Neddick Light, more commonly known as Nubble Light. Enjoy these photos submitted by our talented readers.
Love a menu with historic ties? This collection of 21 fresh-but- familiar holiday recipes from the Yankee recipe archives is here to help.
