Pureed, roasted and baked, Butternut Squash — a New England favorite — makes winter a sweeter season. It’s one of the best-tasting, easiest squashes to cook with—once you get the peel off—and the base of many a soul-warming soup. It also has deep New England roots. Butternut squash got its start in Massachusetts in the 1940s, but […]
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Victoria Blewer left New York City in 1986 to devote herself full time to fine art photography in the quiet hills of Vermont. Her photographs are shot with black and white film — many with infrared black and white film, printed on a porous photographic paper, and then toned for color and longevity. Her technique […]
Travel
Christmas Reflections
Verner Reed’s photographs preserve moments large and small of how New Englanders lived 60 years ago. When Verner Reed (1923–2006) came upon this group of children gazing into the window of a toy store along Boston’s Washington Street at Christmas in 1955, he captured, unmistakably, a little girl’s wonder and ever-hopeful yearning. He titled it […]
Main Dishes
Classic Macaroni and Cheese Recipe
Is there a crowd-pleasing comfort dish more beloved than macaroni and cheese? Here’s our favorite classic mac and cheese recipe.
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The Giving Tree | The Farmer’s Life
A red oak meets its end, but not the limit of what it can offer. A decade ago, when I first moved to an 1850s farmhouse set beside two huge red oaks, my new neighbor, Mrs. Atwood, heaved open her window and leaned out to announce, “Your leaves are on my lawn.” I stood by my […]
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The Haunting Case Of Orville Gibson
Yankee Classic: December 1987 If an entire town can be said to share one ghost, then Newbury, Vermont, has held clear title to Orville Gibson ever since he disappeared 30 years ago this month. It wasn’t until 85 days after he vanished that the town, and then the nation, learned the grim fate of Newbury farmer […]
I wondered if perhaps New England could lay claim to the very first American Christmas tree, so I began rummaging around in our library.
Majestic meetinghouses, coastal villages, covered bridges, and bucolic barns are a few of the charming sights depicted in our 2016 Scenes of New England wall calendar! See more photos or purchase your 2016 Scenes of New England calendar today!!
Design
Pamela Druhen | Open Studio
Step inside the fiber artist’s Vermont studio.
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Life in the Kingdom | Stick Season
In northern Vermont, “stick season” is the time between the leaves’ dropping and the first snow that sticks— a time that brings its own stark beauty and rituals.
White-steepled churches, country stores, black-shuttered white clapboard houses, and bobbing boats provide the backdrop to the prettiest towns in New England.
Many communities put on a show for the holidays, but Christmas celebrations in Manchester and Woodstock, Vermont, are especially festive.