35 million Americans who claim descent from the original 102 Pilgrims 51 original colonists who survived that first New England winter, 1620-21 7 homes erected by colonists by the end of 1621, their first full year at Plymouth ColonyGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe 252 feet (and 7 inches): height […]
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Orange, NH: The Town Party
Read more: Small-Town Holiday Celebrations There are layers in every town that touch and connect its residents. Ritual, communal gathering, collective memory: In the New Hampshire town where I live, those layers are almost visible in our annual town Christmas party. I think of them most strongly at the end of the party, when, by […]
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Here in New England: Hard Work
When strangers taste Nancy Brown’s balsamic vinaigrette, they know it’s special. What they don’t know is just how special.
In Newport, Rhode Island, a month-long tradition of giving and goodwill makes a memorable holiday getaway.
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US Paralympic Team
Last week, my good friend’s Facebook status said she spent three days in the athletes’ dorms at the US Olympic/Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Erin is the executive director of Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports (VASS). VASS is a non-profit organization that provides sports and recreational opportunities to individuals with disabilities/handicaps, regardless of their […]
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Gathering in the Fall
Every year at this time, I drive down into the Connecticut River Valley, down through Northfield and Sunderland and Hadley, to buy my winter supply of onions and potatoes, plus winter squash and apples, and a few other things that will keep in my root cellar. This way, I don’t have to think about buying […]
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A Visit to Berlin
On Wednesday I went up to Berlin, New Hampshire, to give a talk. I’ve been giving these talks for the New Hampshire Humanities Council for some time now, gigs that take me all over the state to libraries large and small as well as historical societies, some housed in big old town halls and some […]
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16 Fall Cleaning Tips
Home Tips: Fall Chore Shortcuts 1. Clean painted woodwork with a solution of 1/2 cup white vinegar, 1 cup ammonia, 1/4 cup baking soda, and 1 gallon of lukewarm water. No rinsing is necessary with this solution.Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe 2. Clean vinyl shower curtains without taking them […]
Welcome to the September 2009 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. Some Things We Can Count on Not to Change It’s not quite as easy to come up with unchanging things as we first thought… We […]
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Yankee Classic: Ghost Town
Yankee Classic from Mysterious New England, 1971 Here is a tragedy so heinous, a mystery so unfathomable, an abduction so strange, as to cause all who hear the tale to look askance, and shake their heads. Have you ever tramped the trails leading from the White Mountains down onto the eastern bank of the Connecticut […]
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The End of No Summer
It is the end of summer, a strange thing to say since some of us feel there never was a summer this year. Just a long wet spring. And now we are about to celebrate Labor Day and school has already started. Because we have a number of lakes in this town, we have a […]
It was the summer of 1953. Ernest F. Fetske, a prominent naval architect from New York, and his wife, Bettina, were taking a load of bricks in their boat out to their vacation home on five-acre Brockway Island in Essex, Connecticut. They’d been spending weekends there since purchasing it in the early 1940s. Folks around […]