From tours of decked-out historic houses to holiday parades and bazaars, these top New England holiday events are worth the drive.
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When Food Is Your Life | At Home with Portland, Maine, Restaurant Stars Steve and Michelle Corry
Having built a mini restaurant empire in Portland, what do two culinary stars want for their own kitchen? For one, an outdoor masonry oven.
Our annual celebration of extraordinary New Englanders honors a Maine couple on a mission to put the great outdoors within everyone’s reach and a Massachusetts mother working to connect, support, and empower parents of seriously ill children.
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Coming in November 2017
highlights /// A Movable Forest For a hard-luck Vermont farm family, bringing a crop of Christmas trees to the big city takes grit, perseverance, and just a touch of “secret sauce.” /// The Only Game That Matters When you live on an island that sometimes feels as if it belongs more to outsiders, you hold on tight […]
I’ve seen houses with an outside door in the living room and been told it’s a “coffin door.” What does that mean? —James T., Portland, ME Features of old houses often acquire colorful names, and “coffin door” is one of these. Most frequently associated with 18th and early 19th-century houses in Connecticut, the coffin door […]
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The Best 5 Cemetery Tours In New England
Credit: Kim Knox Beckius Touring a burial ground is like stepping into a chiseled storybook, where each stone signifies a love immortalized. Sure, you can wander on your own, reading epitaphs. But the guides who lead New England’s best cemetery tours are there to help you dig deeper. Here are our five favorites. The Best […]
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The Maine Beer Trail
Credit: Gina Vercesi From a long chrome tap that looked more as if it should be used to fill balloons than a pint, the black-brown liquid began to cascade into the glass, with milky white bubbles creating a swirling, opaque waterfall as they rose to the top. I watched the show, mesmerized, as the beer […]
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Instagram | My New England—October 2017
We asked, and you answered. Enjoy this collection of ##MyNewEngland photos from our talented Instagram community.
Learn more about season two of “Weekends with Yankee,” the New England-based travel and lifestyle series from Yankee Magazine and Boston public television producer WGBH.
Tour a lighthouse, sample chowder, explore your Celtic roots, and more, at these top picks for New England fall events.
Make the most of fresh, wild mushrooms in these four flavorful recipes, including Potato and Wild Mushroom Gratin and Wild Mushroom Chowder.
Stephen King (born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine). Following on the heels of his 70th birthday this year—and the release of the big-screen adaptation of his novel It—Halloween seems a fitting time to celebrate Maine’s horror master.