Martha Hale Harvey documented the landscapes and people of turn-of-the-century Cape Ann. Among Martha Hale Harvey’s hundreds of photos of Cape Ann life is this portrait of her husband, George Wainwright Harvey (1855–1930), an oil and watercolor artist renowned for his landscape and maritime scenes. Born in Gloucester in 1862, Martha Hale Rogers married her […]
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Annisquam Harbor Light
Sunset at Annisquam Harbor Light. Gloucester, Massachusetts.
New England’s Small Museums | The Memory Keepers
Can New England’s small museums survive a nation’s short attention span? Can they still bear witness to lives that mattered, to the stories they tell?
Follow aimless paths and carved boulders to Cape Ann’s Dogtown — New England’s most famous abandoned settlement with a checkered past.
Is spring the season to put aside all thoughts of winter, or is now the time we should be thinking about it most of all?
Modern-day convenience meets old-fashioned charm. How one Maine couple turned a 1984 house into the antique home of their dreams.
Sayings of the Oracle
Excerpt from “Sayings of the Oracle,” Yankee Magazine January 1964. ♦Me.: Dear Oracle: A question you may be able to answer. My husband has a century-old clock with wooden works–used by his grandfather on a clipper ship. Do you know of anyone who can make it run? A.S.Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations […]
The Double Life of Laura Shaw
Was Laura Shaw a reclusive, lonely, mild-mannered claims clerk or a high-rolling, horse-owning millionaire? When she embezzled more than 4 million dollars, she was both. Laura Shaw is rich. A millionaire horsewoman with homes in three states. Some say she’s a lottery winner. Or the daughter of a Midwest jeweler. Or a supermarket heiress from […]
The Single Soldier Monument | Civil War Memorial
In small towns throughout New England stand statues of a Civil War soldier, memorials to the nation’s deadliest conflict, which ended 150 years ago this April. We see them everywhere, yet they are nearly invisible. On hundreds of village greens across new england, in hundreds of city parks, before hundreds of libraries and town halls, […]
Photos of New England | Weekly Instagram
Yankee Magazine‘s editors and contributors have been snapping photos all over New England for our Instagram feed. Here we present a sampling of their most popular photos from February, March, and April of 2015.
Spring in New England | Photographs
View a sampling of our editors’ images depicting spring in New England. Follow our Instagram feed for your daily dose of New England. Pickity Place in Mason, NH Cabot Cove in Kennebunkport, ME Gingerbread Cottages in Oak Bluffs, MA Flowering Trees in Providence, RI Harbor View in Mystic, CT Bleeding Hearts in Keene, NH Taftsville Covered […]
Ashfield, Massachusetts | Could You Live Here?
A tightly knit community of artists and artisans gives the pretty hill town of Ashfield, Massachusetts, a creative energy like few others.