Massachusetts

6. Edgartown, Massachusetts | Best Attractions, Dining, and Lodging

Here are Yankee Magazine‘s picks for the best places to stay, eat, and see for Edgartown, Massachusetts, ranked #6 Beach Town in New England. Where to Stay in Edgartown, Massachusetts Hob Knob This 17-room hotel tucked into a 19th-century Gothic Revival home has both the luxury and the green touches to stake a simultaneous claim […]

Rhode Island

5. Old Harbor, Block Island | Best Attractions, Dining, and Lodging

Here are Yankee Magazine‘s picks for the best places to stay, eat, and see for Old Harbor, Rhode Island, ranked #5 Beach Town in New England. Where to Stay in Old Harbor, Block Island: The Sea Breeze A short walk from Old Harbor, this sun-bleached shingled inn with private cottages overlooks wildflower meadows, perennial gardens, […]

Rhode Island

4. Newport, Rhode Island | Best Attractions, Dining, and Lodging

Here are Yankee Magazine‘s picks for the best places to stay, eat, and see for Newport, Rhode Island, ranked #4 Beach Town in New England. Where to Stay in Newport, Rhode Island: Rose Island Lighthouse For a charitable donation that’s far less than a beach-house rental, you can be the lighthouse keeper for a week. […]

Desserts

Marble Bundt Cake with Chocolate Glaze

We’re nearing the final stages of putting together the new Yankee cookbook (due out in October), and I’m having a hard time letting go. Looking through our archives, I keep discovering even more recipes to test and add to the collection, but we’ll soon be in the studio with Heath Robbins and Catrine Kelty making […]

Massachusetts

3. Nantucket, Massachusetts | Best Attractions, Dining, and Lodging

Here are Yankee Magazine‘s picks for the best places to stay, eat, and see for Nantucket, Massachusetts, ranked #3 Beach Town in New England. Where to Stay in Nantucket, Massachusetts Century House As if the cliffside location and long history as an inn (since the early 1870s) were not enough, Century House invites artists in […]

New England

My Hometown Photo Contest 2012

The 2012 My Hometown Photo Contest is now closed. Winners were announced in the March/April 2013 issue of Yankee Magazine. Find out which photos took top honors.

New Hampshire

The Friendly Farm in Dublin, NH

Last weekend two of my best friends, Melissa and Kayte, made a pilgrimage from Brooklyn to my new hometown of Keene, New Hampshire. Because they are both native New Englanders, I wanted to make sure their visit included some of the things they couldn’t get in Brooklyn. After a leisurely breakfast of eggs and homemade […]

How To

Repurposed Window Shutters: Now, a Kitchen Solution

I think this is the last time I can mention Twin Elm Farm—an excellent antique co-op in Peterborough, New Hamsphire, near Yankee’s offices—for at least a while. I’ve written about my finds from this place so many times that you might think that I’m getting kickbacks. I promise I have no financial interest in the […]

History

Learning to Drive a Tank

Jud’s New England Journal For June 2012 Welcome to the June 2012 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. Learning To Drive a Tank It required just a nightmarish five minutes. But I’ve applied the lesson almost […]

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