If you’re female, live within driving distance of central Massachusetts, are fed up with winter, love to cook, scrapbook, quilt, knit, discuss books–whatever–and have several girlfriends who feel the same way, read on. We’ve found the place for you to spend a fun winter getaway weekend. It’s a 10-room, rose-colored Federal-style home on four acres, […]
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Living
Hockey Fever
I like almost everything about pond hockey: the potluck quality of the players (young and old, male and female), the 12-on-12 games that last all afternoon, the universally acknowledged rules (goals marked by winter boots a hockey-stick length apart) and rituals (teams sorted by sticks gathered and tossed into two random piles, to be collected […]
Welcome to the December 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. A Little About the New England Language It’s still true that every region of our country continues to have its own special words. Ask a […]
Magazine
Tips for Fresh-Cut Evergreens
Joe Phelan, owner of Gulf Pond Trees in Perkinsville, Vermont (802-263-5458), offers these hints for keeping a fresh-cut evergreen healthy: 1. Take a thin slice off the trunk, place the tree outside in a bucket of water, and protect it from the wind. Leave the net on. 2. When you’re ready to put the tree […]
Yankee
Fantasy and Fetish on Campus
There is a strain of contemporary art that has to do with investigations of the artistic imagination as applied to social history and natural history. Perhaps the best known example of the former is Matthew Barney, who creates his own hallucinatory world out of bits and pieces of social fabric. The best known of the […]
New Hampshire
Henniker: Let the Book Browsing Begin
By Eileen Terrill Managing Editor, Yankee Magazine One of my favorite fall jaunts in the Monadnock region is a weekend excursion to Old Number Six Book Depot in Henniker (603-428-3334). With 160,000 volumes, it maintains the biggest stock of any used bookstore in New Hampshire. But half the fun is getting there — up over […]
New Hampshire
Stars Over Harrisville
By Heidi Stonehill Senior Associate Editor, The Old Farmer’s Almanac I love Harrisville, both for its natural beauty and for its small-town appeal, with quaint brick buildings: the church, the library, the old mill … As I drive home from shopping in Keene, I often take the back way on Chesham Road and then on […]
New Hampshire
Monadnock: Hike Away From the Crowds
By Justin Shatwell Assistant Editor, Yankee Magazine Not a native New Englander, I never went on a childhood vacation to Mt. Monadnock. I first saw the lonely peak as a grown man when I moved to Keene a year ago. From a distance it’s a rare beauty — solitary and serene — and for a […]
New Hampshire
The Best View of All
By Mel Allen Editor, Yankee Magazine It can be a bit of a local sport, deciding where exactly to find the absolute best view of Monadnock. I’m here to tell you where. Driving from the east, make your first left past Yankee‘s red buildings onto Upper Jaffrey Road. Drive a few miles, until just before […]
Rhode Island
Rhode Island: Best Ocean Swmming in Fall
The beach was almost empty, so we didn’t have to look hard to find the perfect spot — far enough back that the sand was soft, yet close enough that we could feel the breeze. A couple was playing Frisbee, and a teenager was skim-boarding near the ocean’s edge. My daughter shucked her clothes and […]
From childhood neighbor to lifelong friend and mentor, Andrew and Betsy Wyeth helped shape photographer Peter Ralston’s life and career, introducing him to the Maine coast that would become his home and inspiration. In this Yankee classic, Ralston reflects on their extraordinary friendship and the gifts that changed his life.
Magazine
Making the Final Choice on Katahdin
In the frozen grips of a fierce storm on Mt. Katahdin, each man’s choice was his own. On Thursday evening, January 31, 1974, a fierce winter storm cut a swath of destruction across northern New England. It tore roofs off of mobile homes and tossed them into nearby trees, and sent tree limbs crashing into […]