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Hardwick, Vermont, and the New Frontier of Food | How New England Can Save the World

How New England Can Save the World, Part III in a series Part I: The Maine Way: Aroostook County Part II: Vermont Neighbors Part IIII: A Bang for Your Buck in the Berkshires When you think of Vermont–white church on the tidy green–you’re not actually thinking of Hardwick, which in its days as the “Building […]

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New England By the Numbers | Amusement Parks

73 years the Frantzis family has owned Quassy Amusement Park in Middlebury, CTGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe 35 mph: top speed of the 80-year-old Yankee Cannonball, oldest roller coaster in the U.S., now at Canobie Lake Park 177,408 cookies devoured each year by reindeer at Santa’s Village in Jefferson, […]

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How to Steam Lobster | Expert Advice

Delivered Daily: New England Recipes and Tried & True Kitchen Tips from the Editors of Yankee Magazine Email(Required) Subscribe Bertha Nunan, wife of a longtime lobsterman, shared her recipe with Yankee more than 30 years ago, in the June 1979 issue —Eds. Delivered Daily: New England Recipes and Tried & True Kitchen Tips from the […]

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Seasons of Triumph, Season of Disaster | Book Review

This past decade was a triumphant era for New England sports fans. Their professional baseball, football, and basketball teams brought six championship trophies home for a celebratory Boston duck boat ride, a now-traditional tour of the city in World War II-vintage amphibious vehicles. Two of those parades took place in a mere eight months between […]

Food

Lobster Recipes

In the July/August 2010 issue of Yankee Magazine we showed you that nobody knows better than a Maine chef how to create delicious and affordable lobster dishes. Now, we serve up two more mouth-watering recipes. Loved what you saw in the magazine? Check out more fabulous photography from the story. Lobster and Recipe Shots RECIPESDelivered […]

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Summer Kebabs

Give your guests and your tastebuds a little bit of kebab heaven with these four recipes from the Yankee cookbook. Be sure and make a generous amount of these easy and delicious treats. Everyone is going to want seconds! RECIPESDelivered Daily: New England Recipes and Tried & True Kitchen Tips from the Editors of Yankee […]

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What to Do When Your Car Steering Wheel Comes Off

Welcome to the June 2010 edition of “Jud’s New England Journal,” the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, editor-in-chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, New Hampshire. Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe What to Do When Your Car Steering Wheel Comes Off Get Our FREE Yankee […]

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Roses | Advice from Suzy Verrier

Yankee Classic from June 1992 “I hate to tell you,” Suzy Verrier said, pausing sympathetically, “but your roses are wimps.” “Come again?” I wasn’t sure I had heard her correctly.Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe “Wimps,” she repeated. “They’re wimpy commercial roses that are packaged and sold like canned tuna.” […]

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Bits of Sea in Concord

Unbeknownst to both of us, I played a small part in the development of painter John Bonner’s career. Back in March 1991, Bonner saw an article I wrote about noted Boston cityscape painter George Nick in Yankee and, struck by the aesthetic similarity to his own paintings, he wrote Nick a letter. Nick, an influential […]

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Learning the New England Language

Welcome to the May 2010 edition of “Jud’s New England Journal,” the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, editor-in-chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, New Hampshire. Learning the New England Language Trouble is, as soon as you’ve identified a rule, you discover more exceptions than examples.Get Our FREE Yankee Best New […]

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The Guide and the Allagash

Read more: Wooden and Canvas Canoes This Yankee Classic is from July/August 2001 Gil Gilpatrick lifts the last of the coolers into his varnished cedar canoe and shoves off from the banks of a rutted logging road, down Indian Stream. The stream emerges from a culvert behind him; ahead of him it curves and slips […]

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