Summer sojourners looking to enjoy Lake Champlain often head for Milton, Vermont’s Sandbar State Park, with its broad beach, safe shallow waters, and convenient location, just a few miles up Route 7 from Burlington. But the more curious among them often wonder just what lies at the other end of that long causeway that swings […]
Midcoast Maine’s fraternal twins, Bath and Brunswick, are yin and yang, distinct yet complementary, connected by Route 1, the region’s major artery–and by the aptly named Merrymeeting Bay, where two of Maine’s major rivers (and four other smaller ones) mingle. Bath, identified by the flock of cranes pecking away at Bath Iron Works, hugs the […]
Block Island is an 11-square-mile, pork-chop-shaped landmass off the coast of Rhode Island. It may not sound like much, but it’s the biggest summer destination in America’s smallest state. A few years back, The Nature Conservancy deemed the island “one of the last 12 great places in the Western Hemisphere.” And for good reason: Dramatic […]
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Ten years ago during our annual summer vacation in Round Pond, Maine, our daughters, 12 and 14, ran down to the little harbor at low tide to roll around in the mud. On a lobster pier above them, diners observed with delight, applauding the reckless abandon of these two teenagers whose laughter echoed across the […]
There are many benefits to my work, which is, primarily, journalism, a line of work not always thought of in the same moment as redemption, but perhaps the most continually satisfying and enriching part of it is the people that I meet. Often, there is not only inspiration from their works but in their beings. […]
Go to Waterville Valley’s website, and go fast, especially if you are planning on skiing or riding this weekend and need skiing or riding tips. (And no offense, but you probably do. We all do!) Waterville Valley’s Snowsports School offers a variety of tips from their top ski and snowboard instructors covering tactics to ski […]
When I drove down to the Elizabeth Moss Gallery in the Falmouth, Maine, Shopping Center, the show I expected to see was not there. I was expecting photographs and all I found were paintings and picture frames. Turns out A Picture’s Worth, the photo show I was looking for, was hung in temporary space less […]
Irish Soda Bread is on the menu when “Annie Cooks” — a cooking video from Yankee that highlights senior food editor, Annie B. Copps. I’m Annie Copps, Food Editor at Yankee magazine, Any good leprechaun will tell you the key to good Irish soda bread is don’t get overworked. Don’t overwork the dough and don’t […]
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Welcome to the March 2009 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. Six Women I Know in Every New England Town No doubt you know them, too. Everybody does.Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! […]
Writer Edie Clark traveled the New England section of the US/Canadian border for an article in the March/April 2009 Yankee and shared these photos of the trip. What was once the “friendliest border” has become deadly serious, she notes. Read her story: United States/Canadian Border See also YANKEE CLASSIC January 1984: US/Canadian Border Crossings
