Hungry? The Granite State offers plenty of restaurant options for hungry residents and visitors alike. Here are our picks for the best food & dining in New Hampshire for 2015. Best Burger Tuckaway Tavern & Butchery, Raymond The burgers are crafted of Angus beef, ground fresh each day—but there’s no skimping on BBQ, pork, bacon, bison, […]
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Pinching pennies never felt so good! Check out our picks for the best bargains in New Hampshire for 2015. Best Seasonal Bargain Bookshop Kyes-Sage Book Shop, Peterborough As laid-back as a hammock, Kyes–Sage turns its lights on from April to November, three days a week. Housed in a historic New Englander with Gothic flourishes beside the […]
There’s a lot to see in do in the Granite State, but some activities really stand the test of time. Read our picks for the best classic attractions in New Hampshire for 2015. HISTORIC HIGHLIGHT – Best Classic Amusement Park Canobie Lake Park, Salem (1902) From its early days as a “pleasure resort” in 1902, with […]
Looking to rest your head in the Granite State? We’ve got you covered! Check out our picks for the best lodging in New Hampshire for 2015. BEST HISTORIC AMC HUT CARTER NOTCH HUT, Wildcat Mountain, Jackson The Appalachian Mountain Club calls this rustic beauty in a wildly pretty setting its best-kept secret. This year it […]
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New England’s Secret Season
Welcome to the May 2015 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, N.H. New England’s Secret Season It’s not ever mentioned in regional or resort promotional material. Never. All of us New Englanders are very familiar with what’s […]
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New England’s Small Museums | The Memory Keepers
Can New England’s small museums survive a nation’s short attention span? Can they still bear witness to lives that mattered, to the stories they tell?
“Coggers” sweat and “goofers” stare as the steam engines of the Mount Washington Cog Railway claw their way up “the steepest, highest, windiest railroad trestle in the world.”
East meets West in printmaker Matt Brown’s New Hampshire studio.
Modern-day convenience meets old-fashioned charm. How one Maine couple turned a 1984 house into the antique home of their dreams.
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The Double Life of Laura Shaw
Was Laura Shaw a reclusive, lonely, mild-mannered claims clerk or a high-rolling, horse-owning millionaire? When she embezzled more than 4 million dollars, she was both. Laura Shaw is rich. A millionaire horsewoman with homes in three states. Some say she’s a lottery winner. Or the daughter of a Midwest jeweler. Or a supermarket heiress from […]
But now the seventh generation of the family that has always owned this property—one as historically important as, say, the Granite State homes of Daniel Webster, Franklin Pierce, and Robert Frost—has decided, reluctantly, to put it on the market…
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The Single Soldier Monument | Civil War Memorial
In small towns throughout New England stand statues of a Civil War soldier, memorials to the nation’s deadliest conflict, which ended 150 years ago this April. We see them everywhere, yet they are nearly invisible. On hundreds of village greens across new england, in hundreds of city parks, before hundreds of libraries and town halls, […]