Jud’s New England Journal For January 2013 Welcome to the January 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, N.H. Thoughts On Up and Downs and Overs and Outs From southern Maine, you must go “up” to Bangor […]
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This time of year, it’s easy to see how the Whites Mountains in New Hampshire got their name. The range contains some of the highest mountains in New England, which tower above surrounding valleys to heights where trees can no longer grow. As the snow begins to pile up, and the rime ice accrues on […]
A collection of black and white images of winter in New England from featured photographer Michael Zide.
I have a new favorite Christmas cookie, a sweet little biscuit flavored with lemon and caraway seeds and finished with a lemon glaze. Even better, the recipe takes us way back to the very beginning of American cooking. In fact, it has its roots in the first cookbook ever published here. The First Christmas “Cookey” […]
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Saturday at the New England Aquarium
What happens when you bring a quizzical two-year-old to a museum stocked full of exotic marine life? Simple but direct demands like, “Open it.” As in, open the tank and let’s all start playing with the fish and sea lions. On a recent Saturday, as Boston was absorbing a full on crush of holiday shoppers, […]
For the past dozen or so years, I’ve sung in the choir of our local church. Each Sunday, we lead the congregation in hymns and sing an anthem, something by Brahms or Rutter. With a clock tower, a weathervane, and Ionic columns, the Dublin Community Church is a classic 19th-century New England house of worship, […]
The New England Ski Museum takes you from early man’s first tracks to the treasures of the world’s most daring downhill racer.
Here are Richard F. Wright’s picks for the best used bookshops in New England. Let us know your favorite in the comments at the bottom of the page. BEST USED BOOKSTORES IN NEW ENGLAND The Montague Bookmill This shop fulfills the true definition of “destination” bookstore. After 25 years, visitors still commit to traveling to […]
For more than a century, Johnson Woolen Mills has kept New Englanders warm with its signature red-checked shirts and heavy-duty green trousers.
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The World at Your Fingertips | Old Number Six Book Depot
Atop a forested New Hampshire hillside, up past an ancient snow-covered burial ground and a 19th-century railroad station, a big green spruce graces the front yard of an old white-clapboard farmhouse. Inside the attached two-story barn, a first-class education awaits. A labyrinth of homemade shelving is stuffed floor to ceiling with every species of the […]
From the best doughnuts and coffee to favorite outdoor adventures and indoor browsing to fine dining and bedtime comforts, our quintessential little village gathers everything we love about New England into one perfect place.
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Best Cook | Tastes of India
Jessie Grearson grew up in Meriden, a little village in western New Hampshire. Her mother, she says, made everything from scratch. “I used to crave store-bought cookies,” she quips. So she learned the basics of good cooking from her mother and then went off to Williams College in the Berkshires, followed by grad school at […]