Sometimes winter can settle in with a dark thud—we’ve all felt it, at one point or another—and when it does, inspiration is needed like a burst of blue sky and sun. This issue is filled with that burst: in stories of New Englanders following their hearts and their passions, stories that may prod you to […]
There’s no end to the kinds of modern heirlooms now being created by the next generation of New England crafters. These 10 artists and artisans, originally featured in Yankee’s Open Studio column, are just a few of our favorites.
Best historic inn in Vermont? Best walking tour in Boston? Best seafood shack in Maine? Our 2018 editors’ picks for the best dining, lodging, and things to do in New England.
by The Collector THE EDITOR OF THIS department has been as badly bitten by the collecting bug as any other true Yankee, though his special field is not mentioned in the trade magazines. He doesn’t know Stoddard glass from Keene pottery, but he is a specialist in his line. Nose a-twitch and ears cocked like […]
by Maude W. Schrader Mrs. Schrader, now lecturing at Chautauqua, N. Y., will be remembered by many not only for her broadcasts on Massachusetts radio stations, but also for many women’s clubs activities. She “gets’’ Monadnock from her home on Norway Hill in Hancock. GIVE ME THE HILLS and a book and contentment is mine. […]
by W. B Grover THERE ARE OLDER INDUSTRIES in New Hampshire than that of making footwear, but few of the State’s principal businesses can boast of a more spectacular growth nor of more widespread investment of capital. Although less than one hundred years old in the White Mountain State, the shoe industry has given employment […]
by Lawrence Rathbun IN THE BEGINNING America was a forest, and the finest for the use of man to be found in the world. Her trees furnished the first raw materials for permanent settlement; fence posts and rails, rough logs, and planks. By 1631 a little mill at the mouth of the Piscataqua River in […]
by Percival S. Howe Jr. FROM ITS EARLIEST days New Hampshire’s development and prosperity have been dependent in large measure upon its water power and its forests, for industry sought out sites upon its rivers, and from its forests have grown the lumber industry. In the past decade, however, industry in the State has not […]
by Hon. Andrew L. Felker GLADYS HASTY CARROLL in her story “As the Earth Turns” gives a delightful glimpse of rural New England life as if it was lived and enjoyed in the good old “horse and buggy days”; as one thrifty old New Hampshire Yankee termed them, “The Pod Auger days.” While one would […]
1935 New Hampshire Model by Beth Tolman Credit: Drawing by F.W.P. Tolman WHAT HAS HAPPENED to the jigs, reels, quadrilles, and hornpipes that used to rollick America back in its teens? Who does them now and where are they danced? The answer, of course, depends upon what section of the country you speak from. In […]
Intimate inns, cozy B&Bs and one grand hotel are just a few of the many lodging options at this popular White Mountains resort town. Get our picks for Jackson, New Hampshire, hotels.
by Michael H. James Off in the meddows where lies a hay stack, Comes a rugged old man to his weathered shack. Wears a black sock on one foot, gray on the other, Bares a milk pail in one hand, stool in tother. “Well blow me down”, he mutters away, Me keow hain’t give but […]
