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View the winners of the 2014 Editors’ Choice Food Awards — Cured Meat & Fish. COLD SMOKED ATLANTIC SALMON SULLIVAN HARBOR FARM SMOKEHOUSE Hancock Village, MaineGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe The team at Sullivan Harbor produces 75,000 pounds of luscious cured and smoked seafood each year, and we’re especially fond […]
Gray seals once were all but eliminated from New England waters. Now they attract great white sharks, thousands of tourists; and enrage fishermen, who wish them gone.
Welcome to the August 2014 edition of “Jud’s New England Journal,” the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, the Editor-in-Chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, NH. Still An Incredible Story We all know the ship Essex was sunk by a whale. It was a bizarre enough event for the instant creation […]
One of the prettiest little ponds in New Hampshire belongs to the people of Peterborough and their happy, barking companions.
View a sampling of sites along New England’s “Maritime Trail,” covering 400 years of seafaring history.
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Wickford, Rhode Island | Could You Live Here?
Water is at the heart of Wickford, Rhode Island, where you’ll shop to the tune of gulls, take your morning coffee within sight of swans, and find the harbor a constant companion.
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Moby Dick Card Game | Whale’s Tale
By the time you’re back home from Yankee’s “Maritime Trail” adventures, you may be saying to yourself, “Call me curious, but I’m hooked on those 19th-century whaling expeditions!” The folks at King Post Productions may be able to help. Although hundreds of whaling voyages launched from New England ports such as New Bedford and Nantucket, […]
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New Bedford, Massachusetts | Whaling Industry History
New Bedford, Massachusetts, embodies the grit and the tragedy of the whaling industry. Learn more about its rich maritime history.
25 number of times a lobster sheds its shell during the first five years of life 98 estimated number of calories in a typical 3-ounce serving of lobster 61:9.5 feet and inches: length of the world’s longest lobster roll, containing 48 pounds of meat, recorded at the Old Port Festival in Portland in 2009Get Our […]
Looking to rest your head in the Bay State? We’ve got you covered! Check out our picks for the best lodging in Massachusetts for 2014. BEST MANSION: GATEWAYS INN, Lenox The 12 guestrooms in this 1912 mansion are named for Shakespearean characters, and the gracious lodging makes an elegant base for enjoying the summer arts […]
Looking for fun in the Bay State? You won’t have to look far!Read our picks for the best attractions in Massachusetts for 2014. BEST CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM: MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (MASS MoCA), North Adams More than 100 large-scale wall drawings designed by artist Sol LeWitt are a must-see extravaganza of pattern and color […]