New Britain Museum of American Art is an easily overlooked jewel in the crown of New England culture. I confess I had never been to New Britain, Connecticut, let alone to the New Britain Museum of American Art before stopping by last week on my way to a soccer tournament. New Britain on a Sunday […]
There are some things you can do to save money on your travel and food expenses and still see New England. In fact, New England could be the perfect destination. Listen to Yankee editor Mel Allen’s frugal tips for spending time, not gas money, in New England. See food editor Annie B. Copps on NECN’s […]
It’s mind boggling to me that Mount Monadnock is the second most hiked mountain in the world and the most hiked mountain in North America because the world is such a big place and the mountain is just minutes from where I live. The worst part about those facts, in my opinion, is that an […]
I’ve made the trek to The Forks, Maine, twice to whitewater raft on the Dead River. The Dead has the longest stretch of whitewater in New England, and it is also dam controlled so, depending on how much water is released the rapids, can go up to Class V (7,000+ cfs), which means there is […]
Here’s a walking tour for your next trip to Boston. It’s full of brick buildings, cobble-stoned paths, and surprising history. See a “Wicked Big Picture” of Beacon Hill. Read one historian’s search for her ancestors and the little-known history of slaves in Portsmouth. Follow more of history’s footsteps at these black heritage trails and historic […]
Of all the types of art exhibitions — group shows, career retrospectives, recent work, juried competitions, survey shows, exhibitions organized around periods and styles, etc. — the shows I find most satisfy are theme shows, those in which art and artifacts are assembled around a central idea. Art, after all, is a form of knowledge, […]
From Yankee Magazine June 2006 The trees and shrubs of Bushnell Park in Hartford, including a Chinese mahogany, are in full bloom in June. Green fields slope up to the gold-domed Connecticut capitol, a child’s fairy-tale confection of marble and granite. On a 1914 carousel, children straddle antique hand-painted horses, striving for the brass ring. […]
Welcome to the May 2008 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. New England’s Secret Season It’s not ever mentioned in regional or resort promotional material. Never.Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe […]
An elite New England prep school might not be the place you’d expect to find one of the wild men of contemporary American art having a show, but then few if any prep schools have a museum to match Phillips Academy’s Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts. Fewer still have such illustrious artist […]
Take a room-by-room tour of New England history with assistant editor Justin Shatwell as he visits Memorial Hall Museum and talks with director Tim Neumann at the historical landmark in Old Deerfield, Massachusetts. Listen to the tour here or take this audio tour with you when you visit the museum. Here’s how: Download an MP3 […]
Yankee editor Mel Allen describes ways to spend time, not gas money, in New England — visit small towns, try walking, explore camping — when he is a guest on The Frugal Yankee. Listen in!
Within a few minutes after turning off Connecticut’s Route 9, which follows along the Connecticut River south of Hartford, we knew we’d taken the wrong exit. With the sun rising directly in our eyes, we couldn’t read the signs properly. Our destination was a horse farm in East Haddam. We’d been corresponding with the owners, […]
