Our very own Mel Allen took the job of editor in 2006, putting an emphasis on Yankee‘s roots in narrative voice while helping it grow into the publication you know and love today. Since then, Yankee has been nominated for CRMAs for Columns, Multimedia Extensions, Excellence Online, and Excellence in Writing. With over 2 million subscribers […]
Where do the editors of Yankee Magazine go on the weekends? Many of them head to the coast of Maine for some rest and relaxation. Here we present a sampling of their photos from Yankee’s Instagram feed.
To celebrate Yankee‘s 80th anniversary in 2015, The Yankee Seeker will spend the year cooking and baking from the vast and colorful Yankee Magazine recipe archives. Will the retro results of this week’s Crab Cakes with Roasted Red Pepper and Garlic Aioli hold up to today’s tastes? We can’t wait to find out! Summer is […]
View a selection of summer scenes that have graced the covers of Yankee Magazine over the years.
Pyrography is the art of burning images and designs into wood. A pen with a metallic tip is heated and then used to “draw” onto a wood surface. Pyrography can be used to create wood plaques or wood blocks, engrave signs, or make freestyle designs on any wooden object. Decorating wooden spoons with pyrography is a relatively fun and easy project. […]
To celebrate Yankee‘s 80th anniversary in 2015, The Yankee Seeker will spend the year cooking and baking from the vast and colorful Yankee Magazine recipe archives. Will the retro results of this week’s Strawberry-Rhubarb Muffins hold up to today’s tastes? We can’t wait to find out! It’s another beautiful June in New England, and two […]
Photographer Matt Kalinowski shares a collection of images from Littleton, New Hampshire as part Yankee Magazine’s ongoing “Could You Live Here” series. Highlighting towns with a small population, but plenty to offer in terms of a simpler way of life, the series celebrates the best of New England’s community spirit. Please enjoy this slideshow of […]
Suspended over the public gallery in the Massachusetts House of Representatives is the Sacred Cod —a wooden fish nearly five feet long, its sleek frame held taut by two guy wires strung fore and aft. Carved from a solid piece of white pine, it has graced both the Old State House and the New for […]
Excerpts from “Sayings of the Oracle,” Yankee Magazine, May 1951, and Yankee Magazine, May 1957. MAY 1951 Vermont: Dear Oracle: … It is a trend of extravagant times, I maintain, that the old-fashioned pincushion is no longer in the home! Old Yankee thrift dictated the slogan: “See a pin and pick it up.” … Today miles […]
The most frugal man I ever knew lived at the end of a rutted dirt road not far from the village of East Charleston in northeastern Vermont. It was a type of dwelling not uncommon in rural parts of New England, constructed over a period of years, or even decades, from various bits of recycled […]
By 10 a.m. last August 8, a day of low nineties’ soaking humidity, a line had formed outside the door of Boston’s famed Union Oyster House and snaked halfway to the corner. The day marked the 175th birthday of the local landmark, and for two hours the owners were offering Ye Olde Fare at circa […]
The Boston Harbor Islands offer a surprising escape just off the coast of the iconic New England city.
