By Janice Stillman Editor, The Old Farmer’s Almanac I love autumn in the Monadnock region because it’s harvest time at the Community Gardens in Peterborough. It’s not commercial, but we welcome visitors. Several months of weeding, feeding, mulching, and sharing advice and ideas wind both up and down, as I hustle to pick and put […]
By Polly Bannister Home and Garden Editor, Yankee Magazine I’ve lived in the Monadnock region for 30 years — almost long enough to consider myself local. In my migration around the area over the years, I’ve lived in seven of the 40 or so towns that consider themselves located in the shadow of the mountain […]
Looking for fun fall activities in New England? Here’s a list of 15 of the best ways to celebrate the foliage season. Cook with apples. Try these recipes for apple pie, pandowdy, etc. Take a foliage drive. Choose your view from these scenic routes. Report the foliage color in your town. Maybe even win a prize! […]
The secret to savoring New Hampshire’s Monadnock region is to drive slowly and stop often.
Imagine most people would say that love is the most potent four-letter word in our language. I agree. But home isn’t far behind. Home carries so many images for each of us. I didn’t realize until I saw this September/October issue spread across the walls of our conference room, where art director Lori Pedrick hangs […]
Richard Gutman, curator of the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, RI, chose these 20 New England diners in addition to his list of Best 5 New England Diners in the May/June 2008 issue of Yankee. Scan his list and, if you don’t see your favorite, add it in at the […]
In northern New England there are really five seasons. Some would say Indian summer and January thaw, too, which add to the rhythm of most years, but they’re inconsistent and ethereal. Mud season, though, is real, its own thing. The roads around here have been posted with a six-ton limit for a few weeks now, […]
On any given day, the aromas of baking sweets and simmering soup seep out her kitchen door, past the henhouse, and up into the rare air of Hancock, New Hampshire. Passersby know what’s happening: Kin is cooking. Again. Kin Schilling is known to her friends as smart, generous, artistic, and innovative — but most of […]
Here’s a recipe for a good day: Take one lakeside home; add four friends and fresh local ingredients. Toss in laughter and good conversation. The friends — Ravi Gongaju, Karen Doris, and Anna and Timothy Blanc — originally met while working at Eastern Mountain Sports in Peterborough, New Hampshire, a few years ago and now […]
The first story I published in Yankee was about a potato farmer’s wife from Aroostook County, Maine. Her name was Avis Dudley. The year was 1977, and Avis Dudley’s homestead had become a local landmark in northern Maine. During the fall potato harvest, her husband’s hired hands would crowd into Avis’s dining room and be […]
