Jud discusses why he believes New Hampshire is the most frugal of all the New England states in this episode of Jud’s Journal.
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Ziplining in the White Mountains
Zipline tours are the new rage in New England ski towns. Alpine Adventures in Lincoln, in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, offers two courses; some jumps feature dual lines, letting riders race each other. Listen to Yankee editor Justin Shatwell describe his adventure on the zipline. Photos by Annie Card.
In New Hampshire’s North Country, an old farmer left a legacy unlike any other.
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My Favorite April Moments
Welcome to the April 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, NH. My Favorite April Moments After a long winter, there’s nothing more welcome than the first sighting of a suddenly-open lake. But I recently saw something […]
Roadside Attractions Every spring, Vermont’s 8,700 miles of dirt roads provide surefire entertainment to Green Mountaineers as they watch people from away drive luxury cars on byways that anyone with the common sense of a turnip would think twice about. “It’s drama, comedy, and suspense all at once,” says Elwood Peabody of Turnbuckle, Vermont, who […]
Romaine Tenney vowed he would never abandon his family’s Vermont farm, which lay in the path of the future Interstate 91. In the end, he loved his farm to death.
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2013 My Hometown Photo Contest Winners
See which images from the My Hometown Photo Contest took top honors.
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Perfect Ski Day at Attitash
When I chatted with local expert Corey Madden about his home mountain Attitash in Bartlett, New Hampshire, he mentioned that he’s a former cover model for Yankee Magazine. I don’t hear that everyday! He said the shot ran on the January 2004 issue and showed him skiing powder. Corey Madden grew up skiing in the […]
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Learning to Ski…Again
Find out what it’s like to learn how to ski…again.
The rise of the fields’ soft curves, the seasons of the hay, the broad reach of the old apple trees, the long-blooming rosebush on the split-rail fence, the in-your-face view of Mount Monadnock, the brilliance of the night sky … These are just some of the aspects of the beauty that brought me here. It […]
Bob King stands at the headworks of an old, 18-foot-high hemlock-and-stone crib dam spanning the Westfield River between Agawam and West Springfield, Massachusetts. It’s mid-April 2012, in the midst of what has been a historically warm spring following an unnaturally dry winter, and the only water coming over the dam shoots through two open sluiceways […]
The president’s house at Unity College is no grand Georgian manor in the New England tradition. The walls are bare of ivy, and the portico, such as it is, shades the entrance with corrugated polycarbonate panels and trains morning-glory vines along its vertical wires. Up above, a blaze of solar panels tilt skyward. They encase […]