Craft projects by Matthew Mead Halloween decorations are becoming as prevalent as Christmas lights. Let’s say you want to add a spook-tacular look inside your home. Below are five simple, crafty ideas that will do the trick. Start now for a happy, haunting Halloween. Also, see SLIDESHOW: Outdoor Halloween Decorations Share your ideas for inside […]
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Our dog, Teddy is priceless because he is a unique animal, and because through a lot of nurturing and love, he has grown to trust us, and to return that love. From owning several dogs now, I believe each dog is a unique creature. They may not have awareness or intellect, but it is clear […]
There are no tricks to making homemade Halloween treats with recipes from the Yankee database. You can start with apples or popcorn and cover them with caramel. Or try popcorn or cheese balls. Make peanut butter balls or peanut brittle. You might even try making your own marshmallows and whoopie pies. Sweet! Start cooking! RECIPES
Jud’s New England Journal For October 2007 Welcome to the October 2007 edition of Jud’s New England Journal, the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, editor-in-chief of Yankee Magazine, published for over 70 years in Dublin, NH. In Northern New England There’s Law and Our Own Order Take deer hunting, for instance …Get Our […]
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New Hampshire Foliage Driving Tour
YOU DON’T HAVE to be a hiker to enjoy New Hampshire’s majestic White Mountains, where roads lead into the heart of New England’s most renowned peaks. Make this drive and along the way you can visit inns and eateries with broad views of Mount Washington (New England’s highest peak at 6,288 feet) and the Presidential […]
Welcome to the September 2007 edition of Jud’s New England Journal, the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, editor-in-chief of Yankee Magazine, published for over 70 years in Dublin, N.H. The Happiest Time in the Life of a Community Church Oddly, it’s often during those months — sometimes even a year — when it’s […]
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Finding Fall in New England
This is my 28th autumn at Yankee. For each of those years, the editors have talked for hours about how to best capture on our pages this most singular of New England’s seasons. Can we do it just with photographs? Can words give our readers a sense of the color marching up the hillsides; the […]
Food
Best Cook’s Muffins
This Apple Gingerbread Muffin recipe comes from our September/October 2007 Best Cook, Cheryl Wixson. We hope you enjoy it. The rest of the bread recipes are from the Yankee database and we hope you try and enjoy these, too. RECIPESDelivered Daily: New England Recipes and Tried & True Kitchen Tips from the Editors of Yankee […]
From Yankee Magazine May 1996 Commonly they did not think that they were lucky, or well paid for their time, unless they got a long string of fish, though they had the opportunity of seeing the pond all the while. They might go there a thousand times before the sediment of fishing would sink to […]
We practically live on our outdoor deck from spring through fall. By this time of the season, it’s showing wear. How best to care for our deck? — A.G., Fitchburg, MA Decks are constantly exposed to the elements and therefore will quickly show signs of weathering. If the wood is dirty (bird droppings, pollen, mud), […]
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Global Warming and Fall Foliage
Here in northern New England, the color comes on slowly, almost furtively. The first leaves turn — on diseased and dying trees — in late July, unbelievably, amid the suffocating lushness of high summer. By mid-August the early sumacs and swamp maples have joined in, and the slide is on despite the heat. Autumn‘s rapidly […]
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Raging Bull | Mary’s Farm
One day late last fall while I was out raking, a pickup with a noisy muffler rumbled past. In its wake, a big black beast went storming by, hooves flying, tail spinning. Head down, he rollicked into the field across the way. My dog, Mayday, barked furiously from behind the protection of the front door. […]