Wondering where to see hawks in New England? Here are some of our favorite spots throughout the region to keep watch.
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New England Hawk Migration | Watching the Skies
Each fall, as thousands of raptors fly southward over New England, hundreds of volunteers watch and keep count. On a cold October morning at Lighthouse Point in Connecticut, Bill Banks stands in an open field and squints into a brightening sky. The distant roar of traffic along the I-95 corridor washes over him. The sun, […]
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Autumn Drives, Photos, Blog
Where is peak color? Yankee editor Mel Allen has the answer! It’s time to take your fall foray through New England. Watch the colors change on the Peak Color Map for best times to visit in September and October. DRIVES: This drive goes through all six New England states. Start Yankee‘s suggested drive in the […]
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Explore Connecticut River Tidelands
The salt marshes and tidal flats at the mouth of New England’s longest river spread through a portion of the busy I-95 corridor of one of the most densely populated states in the country. It’s an area The Nature Conservancy included on its list of the Western Hemisphere’s 40 “Last Great Places”: the Connecticut River […]
Food
Bread Recipes
Once a staple crop here, wheat is appearing again today in New England’s fields, thanks to a small but growing group of dedicated farmers. What to do with local wheat? Try these bread recipes and savor the flavor. Read more: Homegrown Wheat VIDEOS: Irish Soda Bread Making Potato Bread Want a dozen sensational seasonal recipes […]
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Apple Recipes
Yankee food editor Annie B. Copps assesses New England’s apples this way — Honeycrisps are my personal favorite for snacking; I prefer Libertys and Macouns for pies and sauce. Read more: Orchard to Table RECIPES
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Dutch Invade Salem
And now for something completely different. The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, is one of the most fascinating cultural attractions in all of New England, a sprawling modern museum with a collection of more than one million objects of Asian, Asian Export, Native American, African, Oceanic, Maritime art and photography that grew out of […]
Magazine
Five Weddings and Six Funerals
This spring and summer, it seems, has been a succession of weddings and funerals. I want the weddings to win but the funerals keep coming. One week in May I went to three funerals in six days, all at a distance so, just in terms of the driving, I felt spent at the end. A […]
Welcome to the August 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. The Man Who Stepped on Plymouth Rock FIRST An unimportant and possibly not totally accurate examination of proper New England ancestry. New England’s so-called “First […]
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A Summer Flower Show
As I sit here at the keyboard, my backyard view is of gardens punctuated by deep red bee balm and bright yellow black-eyed susans, pink lilies and lobelia, buttery primroses and lilac hostas. High summer is not a time for strenuous intellectual or artistic activity. It’s a time for rest and relaxation, for enjoying the […]
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The Business of Art
Art galleries tend to come and go with the economy. When I first started looking at contemporary art in the 1960s, there was only one serious art gallery in Portland, Maine -Frost Gully Gallery, which eventually returned to Freeport from whence it came. By 1987, at the height of the 1980s boom, there were more […]
Photographers have long been captivated by itinerant peoples. Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans photographed migrant laborers and sharecroppers during the Depression. Josef Koudelka became famous when Aperture published The Gypsies in 1975. Sebastiao Salgado is regarded as perhaps today’s most distinguished documentary photographer based on the epic sweep of his photographs of the world’s dispossessed. […]