Did the pilgrims eat popcorn? We asked Plimoth Plantation for the truth about this common popcorn myth.
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Maine
Summer on Sebago Lake
Head a half-hour or so northwest of Portland, Maine, a city defined by the sea, and you’ll come to Sebago Lake. Around its 45 square miles you won’t find wilderness, unless a storm rolls in, dark as night, and that’s wild enough when it catches you. But like thousands of lakes in New England, Sebago […]
A collection of New England lighthouse photographs taken by photographer and frequent contributor Kindra Clineff.
Is eating salmon and peas on the Fourth of July part of your family’s Independence Day tradition? Here’s our favorite salmon and peas recipe.
The wildly beautiful Maine Peninsulas invite ambling and stopping, so it’s so surprise that they’re also home to many wonderful places to eat, shop, and stay.
Held each year on the beautiful grounds of Shelburne Farms in Shelburne, Vermont, the Vermont Cheesemakers Festival is a cheese-lover’s paradise.
Photographer Markham Starr captured one of the last days of operation at the Stinson Sardine cannery in Prospect Harbor, ME, ending more than 100 years of local history.
After decades of whispers, our analyst puts the Nutmeg State on the couch for a little identity therapy. Is Connecticut really New England? We think you’ll approve of the answer.
It was built some 200 years ago on an island (accessible by a bridge) in one of the oldest and most desirable summer communities on the Maine coast … One rather chilly spring day a couple of months ago, we decided to mosey “down east.” After a short visit to L.L. Bean in Freeport (how […]
When the first volume of Robert B. Thomas’s Farmer’s Almanac appeared in October 1792, George Washington was just finishing his first term as president. That same month, the cornerstone of the White House was laid in the newly formed federal district of “the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia.” From the start, the […]
Comes late summer, come the country fairs. They appear along the branches of rural roads and byways like the very harvest fruits they display. They are perhaps the oldest village shows on earth, these local contests and exhibits of what man and earth and season can produce. But with their golden age clearly in the […]
Magazine
New Territory | Inside Yankee
The first story I published in Yankee was in 1977. I wrote it in longhand on yellow lined paper, then typed it on my gray manual Smith Corona. If I made a mistake (and I made many), I’d slip a sliver of correction tape over the mangled word and make things right. I typed thousands […]