Massachusetts

Maritime Salem, Massachusetts | A Visit to the Peabody Essex Museum and Salem Harbor

It appears art has fused with the sea in Salem, Massachusetts. The Peabody-Essex Museum’s newest exhibit Impressionists on the Water, open through February 17, 2014, has found a proper setting in maritime Salem. This past rainy Sunday, I spent the day discovering the maritime influence in Salem’s art and culture. The exhibit opens with a […]

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A Father’s Gratitude | Red Sox Spirit, Boston Strong, and the Jimmy Fund

Few New Englanders would describe the memorable 2013 Red Sox season as anything short of miraculous. With Boston recovering from the spring Marathon bombing tragedy, the Red Sox put together a comeback season for the ages, one that mirrored the city’s strength and resiliency to “B” Strong; to set to mind a task, and get it […]

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Counting Fish | Estimating the Gulf of Maine’s Fish Population

Each spring, the research ship Henry B. Bigelow drags a net along the seafloor in the Gulf of Maine, cataloguing the fish it catches. What it finds will change the life of every fisherman in New England and impact every consumer who loves seafood.

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Angels Among Us 2013

Yankee Magazine profiles three New Englanders who are making an extraordinary difference in others’ lives.

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Running for Summer

Every year in June, hundreds of recently recessed kids flood the beaches of Cape Cod in search of some New England beach fun.

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Historic Deerfield, Massachusetts | Historic Homes and the Deerfield Inn

I left my umbrella at home on purpose. It was a cold, dreary, late autumn afternoon and I thought that act of omission might clear the skies for my stay at the Deerfield Inn and my tour of Historic Deerfield’s antique homes in Deerfield, Massachusetts. My ploy did not work. Upon arrival, Deerfield was drizzly […]

New England

Final New England Foliage Report For 2013

Some of the most beautiful things in the natural world are also the most fleeting. A rainbow may last just a moment.  The pink light of sunrise, or alpenglow on a mountain lasts but a few minutes longer.  Morning mists linger for an hour or so after sunrise, and a winter snowfall may hang in […]

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Barnology | Research and Reverence for New England Barns

Here in Vermont, there are still more barns from the last two to three centuries than there are box stores from this one. Armed with Thomas Durant Visser’s Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings, and The Vermont Barn Census brochure of “Historic Barn Types,” my recent Sunday drive to gaze at these inspiring […]

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Something About New England Humor

Welcome to the November 2013 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.   Something About New England HumorGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Some say there’s no such thing as pure regional […]

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Foliage Report | Bright Colors Now Fading Across New England

By late October, the foliage over just about all of New England has passed its peak. This is not to say that there aren’t still leaves, even colorful leaves, left on the trees in Central and Southern New England.  The remaining color is generally muted though, with strong rust and brown tones dominating over the […]

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Tom Wessels | The Big Question

We ask naturalist Tom Wessels …How do you see the forest for the trees? Tom Wessels believes that every landscape has a story to tell;  we need only to “open our eyes and see it.”  And for more than 30 years,  he’s been helping people to do just that—teaching at Vermont’s Putney School and new […]

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