For someone with a highly limited music budget, tribute albums can be a source of great anxiety. They always have great potential — covering another artist’s material is a chance for a musician to both pay homage to their roots and at the same time expand upon the original message. Sometimes this process is transcendent, […]
Ever wish you had staff? Maybe you have staff — I don’t. I had dinner at a friend’s house last week to celebrate our mutual friend Christie Matheson, whose 53rd book, Green Chic: Saving the Earth, has just been printed. It’s not really Christie’s 53rd book, but it is her fifth or sixth, and frankly, […]
My limited experience with news blogs has given me the impression that they’re wild and lawless places where rampant rumors, unvetted and untrustworthy, and partisan opinions, unexamined and unedited, are passed along willy-nilly by pseudonymous correspondents who could be anyone and anywhere. Of course, that may just be the old ink-stained wretch in me. I’m […]
I skied Mad River Glen last Saturday. It was magical. The first time I skied Mad River, I was in third grade. I have scattered memories from that trip. Getting up at 4 a.m. was not my idea of a great start to a weekend, but I realized by the end of the day that […]
(Read more about Ira and Ethan Allen in a Yankee Classic from 1981.) Vermont is different from the other five New England states. For one thing, as true Vermonters are very quick to point out, it was never one of the original 13 states. Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe […]
There’s no such thing as bad art. I used to think that the work of the art critic was to judge art and artists, to sort out the good and dispose of the bad. Years ago, however, I came to realize that on the scale of human actions from genocide to sainthood, making art ranks […]
Depending on where you live in New England, you got either a big hype about “many, many inches of snow” or a load of actual snow last weekend. We got snow, but it wasn’t the hassle I was anticipating. I was really looking for an excuse to avoid the shower. I was disappointed when I […]
This is no place for the horrifying details that led to 143 million pounds of beef being recalled from the market last week. Just the words “143 million pounds of beef” ought to be enough. How did this happen? Not just to the cows, but how did our food supply run so amok? I think […]
After much taste testing, we finally found our favorite maple syrups. Find out which ones we thought were the five best maple syrups in the region. In March 2008, our panel sampled 19 bottles of maple syrup from all over New England. The names of the producers were hidden. We tend to think of Vermont when […]
Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe More about mud: Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe New England’s Fifth Season Mud Season Facts and Trivia Boots: These Timberland Earthkeepers for men (foreground) and women (background) are designed to leave a smaller footprint — environmentally, that is. […]
Passing through the ultra-lifelike dioramas of Connecticut’s Mashantucket Pequot Museum, visitors speak in hushed tones as though they’re intruding. But the models don’t flinch: They’re frozen snapshots of a history almost forgotten. This state-of-the-art museum is dedicated to resurrecting and popularizing the story of New England’s native inhabitants, which isn’t always easy. But by weaving […]
The hum of the expectant crowd dies immediately as the lights go down in the packed auditorium. The cherubs and goddesses looming from the dome overhead retreat into the shadows. The curtain parts, and the opening band kicks into a short set. The vibration of the thin wood floor urges the audience to the edges […]
