We spent the day exploring New Bedford, Massachusetts – The Whaling City – and were rewarded with warm weather, great food, ocean views, and historic charm.
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New Hampshire
Scenes from Lake Winnipesaukee in Summer
Our favorite outtakes from Yankee’s May/June 2018 travel feature on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee.
New England
New England’s Best Food Towns
by Hannah Palmer Egan When people think about food in New England, they inevitably conjure rolling fields, farm-to-table restaurants, and seaside shellfish shacks. Of course, you will find those here, sprinkled throughout the Northeast’s gentle mountains and rugged coastlines. And the region’s small cities — Providence, Portland, Cambridge, and Burlington, among others — are well known for […]
History
One Way to Catch a Hoot Owl
There are many types of New England humor — that is, the understated variety, the overstated, put-downs, and so forth — but the one most utilized on the first day of April each year is that which endeavors to test the gullibility of the listener. The more gullible he or she turns out to be, […]
A couple of years ago, I was on assignment in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. The focus of my visit was the hilly hamlet of Greensboro, which is small even by northern New England’s standards. But oh, what a place for lingering. I meandered up and down the aisles of Willey’s, an everything-under-the-sun kind of store that […]
A collection of images celebrating the simple beauty of the New England landscape from photographer Christopher Churchill.
The Newton family was camping at Coburn Gorge in northern Maine over Labor Day weekend in 1975 when Kurt, age 4, disappeared. What followed has been termed “the most extensive woods search in the history of Maine.” But all the thousands of volunteer searchers ever found were unanswered questions.
New Hampshire
Lake Winnipesaukee Hotels & Inns | Yankee Editors’ Picks
Planning a getaway to New Hampshire’s famed Lakes Region? This list of Yankee-approved Lake Winnipesaukee hotels and inns is here to help.
With its flowers, big turtles, and thousands of butterflies, Magic Wings Butterfly Conservatory & Gardens offers a welcome winter escape.
Lightly sweetened with maple syrup and molasses, these homemade baked beans are warming, flavorful, and (best of all) easy to make in the slow cooker.
New England
Jack McConnell’s Winter in New England | Photos
A collection of images celebrating the beauty of winter in New England from Connecticut-based photographer Jack McConnell.
New England
The 5 Best New England Waterfalls
New England is an ideal place to chase waterfalls (there are more than 100 in New Hampshire alone). Each time a river or stream takes a tumble as it races across this geologically diverse region, it drums its own calming white noise and makes a visual splash. At their most vigorous in the spring, when […]