In “New England Under Glass,” Tovah Martin took everything we love about the New England landscape and captured it in a series of lovely terrariums. Use the natural materials found in your own backyard to make this woodland scene terrarium. Materials to Make a Woodland Scene Terrarium Glass container, with or without lid Live Hypnum […]
In “New England Under Glass,” Tovah Martin took everything we love about the New England landscape and captured it in a series of lovely terrariums. Create a New England-inspired beach scene terrarium to add a touch of summer to your home all year long. Materials to Make a Beach Scene Terrarium Open glass container 3/8-inch pebbles (for […]
We’re happy to share the 2013 “My New England” Photo Contest winners and honorable mentions in the following slideshow. The theme for our second annual photo contest was “My New England”, a broad topic that encompasses everything from landscape, portraits, and even details. How you see New England through your lens is open to interpretation, and […]
In “New England Under Glass,” Tovah Martin took everything we love about the New England landscape and captured it in a series of lovely terrariums. While searching for terrarium accessories, we came across the work of Dave Camber of Creative Laser Design in Lyndonville, Vermont. Dave is an engineer, but his passion is model trains; […]
When the family of artist Oliver Balf combed through a lifetime of paintings, they discovered truths about the artist’s passion, and themselves. October 2010: I remember his being tired but relieved after a long day of international travel. The spare kibbutz “guest house” that we arrived at in advance of a family wedding amused us […]
New Englanders know that the hands-on growing and nurturing aspect of a garden is virtually out of the question during the long, cold winter months. However, a window view of a garden that’s been spiffed up for winter can offer hours of enjoyment. A visually inspiring winter garden scene is a sight to behold which […]
Dashing through the snow? Check. In a one horse open sleigh? You betcha. O’re the fields we go? Yep.Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Laughing all the way? Ah, not really. It was more like speechless awe. Our Vermont sleigh ride had us riding on rails instead of radials, with […]
For more than 100 years, Dartmouth students in Hanover, NH have embraced winter in their own unique way with the Dartmouth Winter Carnival.
Yankee Classic from January 1996 If only you had come to Acadia National Park in winter when less than one percent of the year’s three million park visitors pass through. It would have been colder then, but at least you could have had the illusion that all this beauty was yours alone. I drove through […]
Lew French is part stonemason, part artist, part magician. He hand-selects each stone used in his structures to make sure they fit perfectly.
Driving by farms and landscape late November was such a treat to me. I had never ventured past the favorite towns before. I was surprised so much was country. To me this captures the part of Martha’s Vineyard that tourists don’t have time to see. What a wonder place in every season.
Each spring, the research ship Henry B. Bigelow drags a net along the seafloor in the Gulf of Maine, cataloguing the fish it catches. What it finds will change the life of every fisherman in New England and impact every consumer who loves seafood.
