by Eugenia Frothingham IT WAS “a great while since, a long, long time ago” that the sea flung a Christian saint upon the shore of an Italian island and the holy man turned himself to silver where he lay. In this precious and amazing condition he was found by natives, who built him a cathedral […]
TIME ENOUGH FOR many changes to take place has elapsed since the ordination of young Timothy Walker in a blockhouse in the wilderness. There, in 1730, the Reverend John Barnard of Andover, Massachusetts, who had come on horseback over the rough trail to the Plantation of Penny-Cook which he firmly believed to be the former […]
Using fresh summer zucchini and wild Maine blueberries, this Lemon Blueberry Zucchini Bread is deliciously sweet and perfect for sharing.
How did this year’s foliage season stack up? Where can you still find peak color? Read on for our 2018 fall foliage recap, in our final post of the season.
Have you ever noticed Ping-Pong-sized balls dropping from oak trees? Find out how these “oak apple galls” form and if they’re a threat to the tree.
A late-fall visit to Ossipee Lake and North Conway, NH including stops at Zeb’s General Store, the League of NH Craftsmen, and more!
DUBLIN, NH (November 2018)— In the six years since Yankee launched the Editors’ Choice Food Awards, they’ve witnessed a flowering of the New England food landscape that goes beyond the restaurant scene right to our own tables and pantries. More artisan foods are coming to market, finding a local audience, going national and even earning […]
Celebrating New England’s best cheeses, chocolates, jams, coffees, and other gift-worthy edibles in Yankee Magazine‘s annual food awards.
When the paper mill that had defined Bucksport, Maine, for eight decades shut down just before Christmas 2014, the town, like others before it, could have withered away. Instead, something else happened.
Reaching out to girls who have lost their mothers, Cara Belvin is on a deeply personal mission to help them open up to others and reconnect with joy. Learn more about Cara and her nonprofit EmpowerHer.
Five wheelbarrows are scattered haphazardly around a large ground-floor workshop in an eccentric, circular building in the woods just a two-minute walk from Maine’s rocky coastline. None of the wheelbarrows looks like the others, and frankly, none looks much like a wheelbarrow. They’re all handmade, four of them by a man named Bill Coperthwaite. (The […]
A landmark Kennebunkport inn is looking for new owners.
