Lucas St. Clair’s mission was nearly impossible: to win support for Maine’s biggest swath of national park land despite controversy around its benefactor— who also happens to be his mother.
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Northampton, Massachusetts | Could You Live Here?
When temperatures dip into the single digits, the college town of Northampton, Massachusetts, turns up the heat.
Next to the old Pennellville shipyard the recently renovated Knox Farmstead in New Brunswick, Maine, is now ready for new owners.
Evergreen conifer trees (trees that produce pine cones and remain alive in all seasons) offer protection and beauty throughout the season.
Magazine
A Blue-and-White Christmas
What if your faith doesn’t include Christmas as a celebration? Naomi Shulman ponders a blue-and-white Christmas in this touching essay.
A walk and talk with Steve Moffatt, Christmas tree grower.
Being the town Santa is not all ho-ho-ho and Merry Christmas. A report from the Yankee archives explains the other side of the beard.
Credit: Tim Tomkinson I was 7, and I was a Sugarplum Fairy. Standing backstage in my sequined blue tutu, I was awestruck — not by the spotlights, but by the hundreds of tiny colored bulbs on the enormous Christmas tree at the center of the stage. A teacher whispered frantically behind me: I was missing […]
The day of celebrating light dawns dark and cheerless. A cold east wind drives freezing mist up the valley, out of Caribou, across a half-dozen miles of frozen Aroostook potato field. In New Sweden the farmhouses are lit. On Jacobson Hill and Bondeson Corner, on Route 161 toward Jemtland, smoke rises from chimneys to greet […]
A nostalgic remembrance of New England Christmases past from the Yankee archives by editor-in-chief Judson D. Hale.
From cozy inns to old-fashioned holiday shopping, read on for our festive roundup of things to do in Weston, Vermont.
Celebrating the retro culinary magic of the 1950s with a trio of retro Dips for Chips.