“Last year I had the best year ever,” my old friend Eric Hopkins told me back in May when I stopped by to visit him at his new studio on the edge of downtown Rockland, Maine. Sometimes it seems as though Eric, one of the most popular and prolific painters in Maine, rules […]
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Made in the UK at RISD
Sometime before the end of the year, when we head to Providence to visit our oldest daughter and her family, we will definitely stop by the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art to check out Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection. The exhibition (September 23 to […]
Welcome to the September 2011 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. The Aftermath of the Most Famous New England Murder And it continues to this very day! The premier murder case in New England — possibly […]
We asked Christine Chitnis, author of Markets of New England (The Little Bookroom, 2011), to choose her favorite fall events. Fall offers us a chance to celebrate the harvest, whether by picking apples, jumping on a hay ride, or digging into a freshly baked pumpkin pie. With the leaves turning glorious shades of colors throughout […]
The Rhode Island Red breed began in Adamsville (a village of Little Compton), Rhode Island, in 1854, when William Tripp crossed his Cochin hens with a Red Malay or Chittagong rooster purchased from a sailor in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Isaac Wilbour, above, Tripp’s neighbor, bred his hens with the “Tripp fowl,” creating what he called […]
Amy Traverso, Yankee lifestyle editor and author of The Apple Lover’s Cookbook picks her five favorite native New England apple varieties. Baldwin Apple Category: Firm-sweet Best use: I like to combine Baldwins with firm-tart apples in old-fashioned desserts like pies, crisps, and pandowdies. Origin: Discovered in 1740 on the farm of John Ball in Wilmington, […]
Why is it that so many writers of spooky stories–Edgar Allen Poe (Massachusetts), H. P. Lovecraft (Rhode Island), Stephen King (Maine)–have been New Englanders? Now Vermont’s Chris Bohjalian joins the lineup. Or should I say the coven? After reading Bohjalian’s The Night Strangers, I wonder how much it has to do with our architecture. Every […]
There’s already a ticket line 20 deep when I arrive at the Topsfield Fair at 10 a.m. on an early-October day. Sun filters through the trees, and I’m hit with the smell of warm pine needles, kettle corn, and fried dough as I walk through the gate. A woman plays an amplified electronic zither, and […]
Magazine
100 Artists of New England
Art is all about making personal choices, not just for the artist, but also for the audience, the dealer, the collector, the curator, and the critic. What exhibitions am I going to see? What artists am I going to write about? What art do I think is important? What art am I going to buy? […]
Main Dishes
New England by the Numbers | Stats
8 the late Red Auerbach’s ranking in CIGAR AFICIONADO’s list of “The Top 100 Cigar Smokers of the Twentieth Century.” The cigar of choice for the legendary Boston Celtics coach: Hoyo de Monterrey. Winston Churchill ranked number 1; JFK and Fidel Castro, 2 and 3, respectively. 62,336 major league baseball games analyzed by Northeastern University […]
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Farmers’ Markets
There’s something special about purchasing the food that nourishes and sustains our bodies and souls directly from the growers who have carefully coaxed it from the earth. Every person who works closely with the earth invests not only their own time and energy but also a bit of themselves into what they grow—somehow making the […]
New Hampshire
Call of the Wild: Loons
The haunting cry of the common loon is vanishing from many New England waters. Whether we hear it much longer depends on us.