Welcome to “Holiday Appetizers Through the Decades,” a special series celebrating over 75 years and 9 decades of Yankee Magazine holidays and tasty party appetizers! Each post spotlights a new decade with a classic cover, seasonal advice from the pages of Yankee, and one special party-pleasing holiday appetizer recipe for you to try. Yankee Magazine […]
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Clothespin Gift Toppers
As the holidays draw near, it’s time to think about wrapping gifts. Clothespin gift toppers add visual appeal to wrapped gifts and they can double as holiday ornaments—they pin right onto Christmas tree branches. I initially thought these gift toppers would take a lot of time to make but I was mistaken. These are so […]
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When Does Snow Stop Being Fun?
Somehow it surprises me every year. Summer days melt away all thought of winter; so much so that when those first flakes appear, it’s like I’m seeing them for the first time. Winter arrived in Western Mass with a modest overnight dusting. Watching the shadows of precipitation flit through the beam of my headlights, I […]
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Kringle Candle Company | More Than a Candle Store
When Michael Kittredge III, the son of the founder of Yankee Candle Company, launched a college business project on candles in 2009, the Kittredge family soon found themselves drawn back into the candle business. And the village they created around their flagship store – which includes The Farm Table restaurant, a Chocolate Cottage, a café, and Kringle Christmas Barn — […]
Linda Tenney’s holiday feasts give guests a culinary tour of her ancestral homeland. Linda Wisz Tenney is a tour de force in the town of Antrim, New Hampshire, where she has lived with her husband, Eric, since they married in 1966. Together, and with their extended family, they run Tenney Farm, a farm stand that […]
Christmas tree season is upon us, and with it comes the mission of selecting just the right tree. Since this task is clearly among the most important of the season, we went looking for an expert, and found one in This Old House’s Roger Cook. As a contractor for the PBS series, Roger has been […]
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Earmuffs Invented in Maine
When Chester Greenwood of Farmington, Maine, received a new pair of ice skates on Christmas morning (quite an expensive gift in 1873), all he could think of was his ears. “They’ll start aching. They always ache when I’m out in the cold too long,” he complained. His mother suggested wrapping a scarf around his head, […]
Along the Kennebec River lies Hallowell, Maine, a town where the cafés, the people, and the music create what locals call their “New Orleans of the North.”
A Belmont, Massachusetts, artist transforms her two-story condo into an eclectic home that’s especially festive during the holidays.
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A Christmas Miracle
A chance encounter stirs the author’s memory of the man who gave him a new life.
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DIY Christmas Cones
Christmas Cones have many holiday uses– they can be hung on your Christmas tree as ornaments; they can be used as place settings at a dinner party; or they can be hung on doors and elsewhere for decoration. Look over the materials list and see what you can find in your holiday decor and supplies […]
Is this New England’s greatest gift to America? Well, it’s just our opinion…