A collection of images celebrating the New England eagle population from featured amateur photographer Bill Dean.
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The author was there on Moosehorn Lake that winter day when his father’s team of Clydesdales broke through the ice. Even as the company manager, assuming there was no hope for the beautiful team, went for his rifle, the author’s father was planning a daring rescue attempt. My father had a deep affection for horses […]
A Providence diner — Olneyville New York System — serves up hot wieners with its own brand of dinner theater.
When people come to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, they gaze at the volumes and say, “Who ever knew such a literature existed?” Don’t you know Yiddish is dead?” When Aaron Lansky, then a graduate student of Yiddish literature, first proposed saving the world’s Yiddish books in 1980, many scholars were pessimistic, […]
The Blizzard of 1888 dumped the greatest amount of snow ever to have fallen in the United States in one storm. And author Judd Caplovich discovered more about it than anyone who lived through it.
Across the high country of Vermont and New Hampshire and down the coast from Portland to Boston, our time-travel adventure takes you from ski slopes to cities where classic New England endures.
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Nanny, Rose, and I
A painting showed a young woman what love looked like. And then it came to life.
Our weekly Classic Cover Challenge on the Yankee Magazine Facebook page has proven itself to be one of our most popular features. Each Monday we put up two cover images from Yankee’s nearly 80-year history from the current month, and the winner takes on a challenger until the month is over. Here’s a roundup of […]
How Boston cream pie — a French-inspired cake — became New England’s favorite pie. Well, sort of …
History
Ordeal on Bay Ledge Buoy
Just before a sudden winter squall swamped his 15-foot open boat, the young clammer managed to leap to the comparative safety of the Bay Ledge Buoy. It was the beginning of the longest — and nearly the last — 27 hours of his life. Sunday morning. January 15, began as any working day for […]
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Winter in New England | Instagram Photos
Yankee Magazine’s editors have been snapping photos of New England for our Instagram feed for a few years now. See their photos of winter in New England.
Contributing writer Annie Graves captured the tail end of winter in these Bennington, Vermont, photographs for her ongoing series, Could You Live Here, about life in our small New England towns. Please enjoy these images that highlight her travels, including one very famous gravesite.