The wind was blowing hard and cold through Manchester, New Hampshire, the first week of April when I paid a visit to the newly renovated Currier Museum of Art, now re-opened after two years of construction. The stiff wind was enough to set the curls of scrap metal atop the Currier’s new hood ornament, a […]
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New Hampshire hiker Jan Duprey makes trail lunches a treat with a trusty potato salad and balsamic vinaigrette dressing that doesn’t spoil on a hot day. No mayo! With author and journalist Marty Basch, she hikes in the White Mountains nearly every day. Read more about Jan’s and Marty’s outdoor adventures at martybasch.com For more […]
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New England Diners: 20 Classics
Richard Gutman, curator of the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, RI, chose these 20 New England diners in addition to his list of Best 5 New England Diners in the May/June 2008 issue of Yankee. Scan his list and, if you don’t see your favorite, add it in at the […]
I’m still feeling the drag of the Daylight Savings time jump, but less so as the real spring weather seems more and more possible. Linda Clukay, our dulcet-voiced receptionist and den mother here at Yankee, swears that she sees signs of daffodils and tulips in her south-facing garden. So apparently there’s hope indeed. I’ve mentioned […]
The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, is one of my favorite New England art museums and always well worth a visit, if only for a stroll around the art-studded grounds. The current tour de focus photography exhibition, Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, however, makes the DeCordova a must stop between now […]
Welcome to the April 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. So Where, Exactly, Is the Cradle of Liberty? Concord, Massachusetts, has always claimed that distinction. But then so has neighboring Lexington …Get Our FREE Yankee […]
The weather report for this past Saturday was not good. Regardless, I planned to head to Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, because the mountain was hosting the 24th Annual Jack Williams Ski Race for Wednesday’s Child which Yankee Magazine has supported for years. During the entire drive up, I thought I was listening to the wrong […]
Photography is the hottest medium in the art world at the moment and has been now for almost a decade. The accessibility of photo technology in a digital age is making it possible for a veritable army of artists to generate imagery for all intents and purposes. A Photo Salon As I’ve been writing monthly […]
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New Hampshire: The Granite State
By David Lyon and Patricia Harris New Hampshire is Yankee country, and our woodsy home town of Dublin is right in the middle of it. To the east lies Peterborough, with its famed MacDowell Colony of painters, poets and thinkers. To the west, the handsome college town of Keene boasts one of the widest Main […]
(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. In fact, in 1777, a couple of years after the Revolution […]
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 […]
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 […]