On a recent visit to the New Hampshire Lakes Region, I knew I wanted to spend some time outside in the great outdoors. This sounds easy enough, but since the two main winter activities in the region (ice fishing and skiing) aren’t things I am qualified (or equipped) to participate in solo on a moment’s […]
It’s been dubbed the winter without a winter, but that didn’t stop our talented readers from getting out there and capturing the beautiful landscape of New England. View a sampling of the photos from our 2012 Winter Photo Contest.
The Spring Equinox is just a few weeks away, which gets “the winter that wasn’t” closer to being part of our collective history and further from our current reality. But wait; that does not mean it’s time to stow your skis and board. Despite having somewhat lackluster all-natural conditions, snowmakers across New England pounded the […]
Two feet of snow in falling October has brought about a bit of an abrupt end to the foliage season, but after one of the more atypical foliage seasons in years, I guess little would have surprised me. The season began with an over hundred year rainstorm, so why not end it with an over hundred year snowstorm. […]
In 2002, the University of Maine Museum of Art, which had resided on the campus of the state’s flagship state university in Orono, moved off campus and into Norumbega Hall, a former dance hall, bowling alley, and Sears store on the Kenduskeag Stream canal in the heart of downtown Bangor. “If we were […]
Happy National Cherry Pie Day! In honor of this delicious day, I teamed up with the wonderful folks over at King Arthur Flour to try and achieve the ultimate cherry pie. Delivered Daily: New England Recipes and Tried & True Kitchen Tips from the Editors of Yankee Magazine Email(Required) Subscribe What can I say? Some […]
Each year the seaside town of Plymouth, MA is visited by countless tourists – local, national, and global – hoping to experience a taste of 1620’s American history by wandering through the kitchen garden of a 1627 Plimoth Colony housewife, peeking inside a mat-covered wetu home at a Wampanoag campsite, or stepping aboard the Mayflower […]
Ever since Haudenosaunee and Algonquian Natives discovered that cooking maple sap produced a sweet sugar, the taste of maple has been a New England favorite. The region, especially Vermont, has since been known for its high quality maple syrup. But the goodness of maple doesn’t have to be limited to pancakes. Everything from salmon to […]
Rising early on Saturday, January 21, I headed out the door and was on my way to historic Rockland, Maine, to join in the 8th Annual Pies on Parade celebration. The event is held the weekend before what is widely known as National Pie Day each year. The festivities begin on Saturday and include wine […]
The first thing that hits you as you walk into this sunny spot in the tiny village of Jeffersonville is the mouthwatering scent of fresh-baked pastries, decadent creme brulee French toast, and whatever waffle is on special. If your taste runs to hearty, you won’t go wrong with the cafe’s summer garden hash (topped with […]
In April 2006, at the start of the planting season, John Augustin had a tractor accident. It was the kind of hazard that goes with the occupation, the fear that farmers around big machinery live with every day and acknowledge without saying. It happened in an instant, in the time it takes a rotor-tiller attachment […]
In one form or another, New England’s harborside fish shacks have been a source of shelter for over the past five centuries.
