Welcome to the May 2015 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. New England’s Secret Season It’s not ever mentioned in regional or resort promotional material. Never.Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe […]
Can New England’s small museums survive a nation’s short attention span? Can they still bear witness to lives that mattered, to the stories they tell?
Is spring the season to put aside all thoughts of winter, or is now the time we should be thinking about it most of all?
Modern-day convenience meets old-fashioned charm. How one Maine couple turned a 1984 house into the antique home of their dreams.
Buried treasures from the past wait to be heard and found again.
In Ogunquit, folks plan each summer day according to the tides. Halfway between high tide and low tide, when the current of the Ogunquit River flows swiftly out to the Atlantic, people congregate on the flat stretch of sand that rolls down to the riverbank. They carry an assortment of flotation devices: rafts, boogie boards, […]
The temperate shores of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, where farmland rolls to the sea, are the perfect place to welcome spring.
Was Laura Shaw a reclusive, lonely, mild-mannered claims clerk or a high-rolling, horse-owning millionaire? When she embezzled more than 4 million dollars, she was both. Laura Shaw is rich. A millionaire horsewoman with homes in three states. Some say she’s a lottery winner. Or the daughter of a Midwest jeweler. Or a supermarket heiress from […]
The occasion was the 150th anniversary of Thoreau’s “The Maine Woods”—a literary milestone that would be marked by an adventure into “Thoreau’s Maine.”
Lingering cold, slow-running sap, mud up to your ankles… How could life be better?
Heading to scenic Route 100 in Vermont this year? Along with classics like a day of skiing at Okemo Mountain in Ludlow or stopping for cider donuts at Cold Hollow Cider Mill in Waterbury, we’ve got the perfect roundup of what to see, do, and eat while you cruise Route 100, plus where to stay […]
We all know that plants are visually appealing, and can add color, structure, balance, and even fragrance to the home. Houseplants have been credited with making a house feel “homey” and cheerful and have even been known to elevate moods in some people. In fact there are many ways that plants contribute to good health […]
