The beauty of the New England islands has inspired an enduring legacy of artists and fine art, some 150 years in the making.
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With the weather finally warming up, it’s time to head outdoors and enjoy the sunshine! Need some inspiration? Here are some suggestions for the best Massachusetts outdoor activities from the Yankee Magazine 2012 editors’ picks for the Best of New England. Share your picks in the comments! BEST SKY TRAILS Berkshire East Canopy Tours, Charlemont […]
Pinching pennies never felt so good! Check out our picks for the best bargains in Massachusetts for 2013. Your wallet will thank you. BEST PURE BASEBALL CAPE COD BASEBALL LEAGUE, Cape Cod Since 1885, top college players have shown their mettle every summer in the 10-team Cape Cod League. Ballplayers join the community, working part-time […]
Pinching pennies never felt so good! Check out our picks for the best bargains in Maine for 2013. Your wallet will thank you.Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe BEST CITY DINER PALACE DINER, Biddeford Maine’s oldest diner is a gem, a 1926 Pollard towed here from Lowell, Massachusetts, by […]
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Best 5 Mountain-Bike Trails
Longtime Yankee contributor and Massachusetts native Todd Balf, who has ridden mountain-bike trails from New Zealand to Venezuela. We asked him to share his picks for the best 5 mountain bike trails in New England. Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Great Brook Farm State Park (Carlisle, MA) Twenty miles […]
Though I don’t get to the University of Maine Museum of Art, two hours north of me in downtown Bangor, very often, I have never been disappointed when I have. The Alan Bray exhibition I saw there last fall was the best solo show I saw all year and the I-95 Triennial 2013 (through June […]
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DeCordova’s Boston Biennial
Back in 1987, the then-DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, mounted New England Now: Contemporary Art from Six States, a truly authoritative regional survey of the sort that New England needs. The DeCordova became the New England regional hub for new art under curator Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, but, now renamed DeCordova […]
I live in Brookline, Massachusetts, which puts me about 3 miles from the site of this week’s Boston Marathon bombing. We were nowhere near the finish line at the time, having opted to head to Sturbridge Village for the day. But it’s impossible to live in or near the city right now without feeling rattled. […]
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Finding Wildflowers at Garden in the Woods
Garden in the Woods in Framingham, Massachusetts, offers a great opportunity to see native wildflowers.
Yankee classic from February 1982 Boston in the summer of 1918 was hot and very dry, with only 8.13 inches of rain in four months, according to the U.S. Weather Bureau. For the men in “Receiving Ship,” a naval barracks on Commonwealth Pier where as many as 7,000 enlistees boarded while awaiting assignment or returning […]
Roadside Attractions Every spring, Vermont’s 8,700 miles of dirt roads provide surefire entertainment to Green Mountaineers as they watch people from away drive luxury cars on byways that anyone with the common sense of a turnip would think twice about. “It’s drama, comedy, and suspense all at once,” says Elwood Peabody of Turnbuckle, Vermont, who […]
Romaine Tenney vowed he would never abandon his family’s Vermont farm, which lay in the path of the future Interstate 91. In the end, he loved his farm to death.