A father, a son, and a timeless shared passion for fly-fishing on the Deerfield River.
winter
I drove out on snowy spring days or in the dark evenings of early summer, to Cornwall and Salisbury and New Haven and Shoreham and Lincoln. I took off my boots in the houses of strangers and asked that they trust this place I might create, which I did not know how to create. I […]
I’m distressed that some of the plants in my perennial garden are really overgrown and crowded. What should I do? — J. K., Wellesley, MA Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Fall is an excellent time to transplant perennials such as hosta, daylily, peony, iris, and a multitude of others […]
Anais Mitchell is possibly the most beguiling farmer’s daughter in Vermont. Her father has raised sheep and taught English at Middlebury College since the ’80s, so she was brought up loving both land and letters. As a teen she found her voice in folk music and has since made a career crafting perfect poems that, […]
Maine
Trap Day on Monhegan
SLIDE SHOW: Trap Day on Monhegan No one goes till everyone goes. That’s the way it’s always been on Trap Day on Monhegan, when the island’s lobstermen first set their traps off the darkened shoreline of one of Maine’s most storied offshore communities. Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Over […]
Magazine
To the Lake at Last
This has been a strange summer, cold and rainy. I have a particular fleece jacket that I wear around the house in the winter and I’ve been wearing that through this summer as well. It’s usually buried in the closet by now, waiting for the summer heat to chill. But the last couple of days, […]
Just back from some R&R on my favorite island, Nantucket. I’ve been going since I was a kid. The first time, I think, my mom took me, when I was about 6. My older brother was in North Dakota for the summer, living with family friends who own a ranch. I think Mom was trying […]
Anchored in the east by Conway Village and to the west by Lincoln, the Kancamagus Highway is driven by more than 750,000 vehicles every year and is some of the loveliest and wildest land in the White Mountain National Forest.
New England
Puffins and Other Sea Birds
Yankee Classic from April 1999 by Susan Shetterly The Gulf of Maine narrows at the south of the Bay of Fundy, separating Maine from Nova Scotia and stretching, like the head of a herring gull with its bill slightly open, up into New Brunswick. For six of every 12 hours, tides expose miles of rock […]
Massachusetts
Around Cape Ann With a Paddle
The 20-mile Blackburn Challenge, “the East Coast’s premier open-water human-powered boat competition,” is named for a Gloucester fisherman who famously froze his fingers to his oars in order to row back from God knows where in the middle of winter in 1883. The good news is he survived. The bad news is he lost enough […]
Living
Adirondack Chairs
On Bruce Ware’s porch above the shores of Lake Champlain, I lower myself into a deep wooden chair and lean back. “The way you’ll know a real one is the height of the chair off the ground, and where your knees come up to,” Ware tells me. “In some, where the angle is wrong, they’ll […]
Sally Snowman is the 70th keeper of Boston Light, a post that dates back to 1716. She’s the last of her kind; every other Coast Guard light station in the country has long since reassigned its full-time keepers in the wake of automation. Secluded on Little Brewster Island for weeks at a time, she’s one […]