The Moosehead Lake Region of Maine features fall colors, moose, and mountains. Here are some tips to help you enjoy your fall foliage trip to inland Maine — Greenville and Moosehead Lake Region. 1. Don’t rely totally on a GPS for the best route, or quickest. GPS’s are great for the city, but […]
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New England
Fall Foliage in New England
According to a non-expert (me), this one of the most remarkable foliage displays in recent memory. The reds have been popping in my neck of the woods. According to the experts, the abundance of rain earlier in the summer provided wonderful growing conditions for trees and leaves which has a positive impact on fall foliage […]
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Foliage Photo Tips
To compose the perfect fall foliage picture, says Jeff Folger, start with what’s known in photography as the “rule of thirds.” Mentally divide the viewfinder into three sections both horizontally and vertically, and align your subject along those lines or at one of the four points where the lines intersect. Another good way to draw […]
Magazine
The Leaf Seeker: Jeff Folger
It’s the church steeple that causes Jeff Folger, a.k.a. Jeff “Foliage,” Yankee‘s compulsive foliage blogger, to spin his red Silverado pickup truck around the town green of Brooklyn, Connecticut. The steeple is an unusual one, with a rectangular base giving way to a mansard-roof cupola covered in copper sheathing. And more to our purpose, it […]
There’s a reason this stretch of highway–some 200 miles from Massachusetts to Lake Memphremagog–has been called the best foliage drive in VT, and even the most scenic in all of New England.
Design
Kayak: Season’s Must Have
Scoping out fall foliage from a vantage point on a pristine pond or gently flowing river means enjoying a double dose of riotous color: bedecking the trees overhead and reflecting off the water’s glistening surface. We found the perfect leaf-peeping vessel in the new Vapor 12xt Recycled kayak from Old Town Canoe Co. ($709 suggested […]
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New England Numbers: Autumn
20,000 estimated leaves on a large, mature, healthy maple tree 30 apple pies served at the annual baking contest at Shelburne Orchards in Shelburne, VT 132,000 acres of potatoes planted in Maine in 1950Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) 56,000 acres of Maine potatoes in 2008 168 million total weight in […]
History
When “Maudlin” Was “In”
Welcome to the November 2008 edition of “Jud’s New England Journal,” the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, editor-in-chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, New Hampshire. When “Maudlin” Was “In” Years ago in New England, people viewed death and dying quite differently …Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! […]
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KidsZone: Photo Contest
Attention Kids: Submit your digital photos today for a chance to win a $50 gift card. 1. To celebrate fall and KidsZone, Yankee Magazine is hosting a foliage photo contest for children ages 13 and under in 2011. In past years, we hosted a drawing contest, but we are changing things up this year! To […]
New Hampshire
Foliage Drive: Isaac Frye Highway
By Sara E. Pratt Lyndeborough Start with breakfast or lunch at the Melting Pot in the town of Wilton. After exploring the myriad downtown shops and taking a peek inside the 1886 brick Town Hall Theatre head west out of town on Route 101. Pass the junction with Route 31 South and begin looking for […]
New England
Post Season Ski Disorder
Winter is suddenly over. There are three kinds of people. There are people who hate snow and never want to see another white flake, ever. There are people who like snow, but only a couple months of it, then want it to go away. And there are people who love snow and are sad when […]
Find bottle gourds at Michael’s, The Arts & Crafts Store, or a local farm stand. (This is the type of gourd that is frequently made into a birdhouse.) Here, Matthew sets two gourds upright and one on its side, decorating around them with deep orange persimmons, votive candles, mini-gourds, fall foliage, and antique bottles. (You […]