At The Rocks Estate Christmas Tree Farm in Bethlehem, New Hampshire, it’s as though a rural Downton Abbey has merged with Kris Kringle’s village.
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White-steepled churches, country stores, black-shuttered white clapboard houses, and bobbing boats provide the backdrop to the prettiest towns in New England.
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Iconic New Hampshire | Photographs
For the past few years, Yankee Magazine‘s editors have been snapping photos throughout New England. Here we present a sampling of their most iconic New Hampshire shots. Historic Meetinghouses Learn more about New England Meetinghouses. Explore the historic village of Amherst, New Hampshire. Historic Inns Explore the historic village of Hancock, New Hampshire. Scenic Mill Towns Learn about historic […]
Many communities put on a show for the holidays, but Christmas celebrations in Manchester and Woodstock, Vermont, are especially festive.
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Farms of the Champlain Valley, Vermont | The Land, the Animals, and the People Who Care for Them
Do you know where your food comes from? It’s a loaded question, one that often leads to even more questions. For the farmers of the Champlain Valley, the region that encompasses some of western Vermont in the area south of Burlington, that question has become a livelihood. I recently traveled to three farms in the […]
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Final New England Foliage Report For 2015
A mere two months ago, we watched a beautiful sunset on an unseasonably warm Labor Day evening, marking the unofficial end of summer in New England. As the crickets and katydids loudly greeted the nightfall, we anticipated the shorter days and cooler nights that would kickstart the colors in one of the greatest displays of […]
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Fall in New England | Photographs
Yankee Magazine‘s editors and contributors roam all over the region to snap photos for our Instagram feed. From historic architecture to stunning vistas, here we present a sampling of their most iconic photos depicting fall in New England.
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Bill Staines | New England’s Gifts
I first saw Bill Staines perform at The Folkway in Peterborough, New Hampshire. It was 1979, and my sister, Anita, had come from Boston to visit me in Dublin, where I had just moved. Bill Staines was tall and lean; he wore a cowboy hat with jeans and boots, and his songs were like short […]
In New England, Hollywood producers have found mountains, lakes, lighthouses, small towns and fishing villages, beaches, rockbound cliffs overlooking ocean, opulent mansions, Ivy League colleges, and iconic Colonial architecture all waiting in one compact region. New England has always been ready for its closeup. Imagine a darkened movie theater anywhere in the world. The movie […]
The change was abrupt. A cold front rushed through New England and temperatures dropped, as rain, and then snow, began to fall. After a generally warmer-than-normal autumn, it was rather shocking to be reminded that sometimes in New England, autumn means pulling out the winter hat and gloves! By Sunday morning, skies had cleared, but temperatures all across […]
Design historians usually give credit for the evolution of wicker furniture in America to a grocer named Cyrus Wakefield, who discovered a use for the strips of rattan he’d seen on the wharves in Boston.
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Peak Foliage Spreading Across New England
The biggest tourism weekend of the fall in New England has come and gone, and we couldn’t have asked for better weather. Cool mornings, bright warm sunny days, clear skies and endless views were the dominant conditions, and when it did cloud up in Northern New England, the mountains were dusted with the first snow of […]