Photographer Paul Wainwright has been recording New England meetinghouses with large-format black-and-white photography since 2004, capturing their dual functions of church and town hall — and preserving the sense of history within their spaces. His book, A Space For Faith: The Colonial Meetinghouses of New England, is scheduled for release by Peter E. Randall Publisher […]
This past Sunday I was slated to do a program in Kennebunkport with my friend, the author Carolyn Chute. Carolyn doesn’t drive so I was going to go pick her up which meant I was basically going to drive three sides of a triangle, from my home to Parsonsfield, Maine, down to Kennebunkport, and then […]
Art and technology tend to have a love-hate relationship. Some artists embrace the latest technologies as new tools with which to create. Other artists react against new technologies, embracing instead traditional even antique mediums. Examples of both impulses can currently be seen in a pair of remote and unrelated exhibitions that nonetheless beg to be […]
Welcome to the November 2009 edition of “Jud’s New England Journal,” the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, editor-in-chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, New Hampshire. They’re all over New England. And I’ve visited quite a few … My favorite New England legends are those with which I’ve had some personal […]
Watch as Annie B. Copps puts a fall flavor in whoopie pies with pumpkin using a recipe from Yankee‘s new cookbook, Yankee Magazine’s Best New England Recipes. Here’s her recipe: Pumpkin Whoopie Pies. Delivered Daily: New England Recipes and Tried & True Kitchen Tips from the Editors of Yankee Magazine Email(Required) Subscribe
At some point, if you are skier/rider, you are going to need to give someone a ski house gift. I love this one. Artist Kristen Anderson of Crested Butte, Colorado, creates light switch plates using vintage ski posters. For New England fans, she sells switch plates for Mad River Glen, Cannon, Ski New Hampshire, Ski […]
I’ve been remiss in keeping in touch via this blog – I’ve just been so busy! Lots of work, but as the food editor here at Yankee, I’ve found that work means loads of good eating and traveling around New England visiting friends and meeting new people. I spent much of the end of the […]
A long-standing New England treat, with the loveliest of shells, scallops are surprisingly versatile. Serve them as appetizers, in chowder, or as the main entree. RECIPES
Yankee editor Mel Allen explains why the search for “peak color” in New England is an elusive one. Think, instead, of a process of color lasting a month or more.
Ordinarily when a property comes up for sale, maybe the owners are sad about it, but everyone else simply takes it in stride. Not so when Al and Irene Jenks put out an e-mail saying that they intended to sell their 308-acre property in New Ipswich, New Hampshire (about 25 miles west of Nashua). There […]
Yankee contributor Christie Matheson, author of Green Chic: Saving the Earth in Style (Sourcebooks, 2008; $12.95), goes shopping for great “green” goods at these eco shops. THE CLEAN BEDROOM Kittery, ME For the room where we spend the most time–and benefit most from a pure environment–find organic mattresses, sheets, and pillows, plus nontoxic bedroom furniture […]
35 million Americans who claim descent from the original 102 Pilgrims 51 original colonists who survived that first New England winter, 1620-21 7 homes erected by colonists by the end of 1621, their first full year at Plymouth ColonyGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe 252 feet (and 7 inches): height […]
