Where to Stay in Watch Hill, Rhode Island: Ocean House This Victorian grande dame may have undergone a five-year, $140 million facelift, but it hasn’t forgotten its roots. You’ll find afternoon tea on the porch and Friday night clambakes on the beach. oceanhouseri.com Where to Eat in Watch Hill, Rhode Island: Seasons at Ocean […]
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Gardens
Foraging for Beach Plums
For chef Jason Bond, foraging for beach plums is just another day at the beach…
“I’ve been coming here for 50 years!” my dad announces as we sit in the back dining room of The Student Prince in Springfield. The waiter smiles. I’m sure it’s not the first time he has heard that. Looking around, I see a crowd that my grandmother, Rose, would have described in her northern Italian […]
Massachusetts
A George Nick Tribute in Duxbury MA
Twenty-one years ago, back in March of 1991, I wrote a short profile of Boston painter George Nick for Yankee in which I observed that “though he rarely paints people, George Nick is a society painter.” “In the solid, reassuring facades, high bay windows, and ornate stone entries along Beacon Street and Commonwealth Avenue, […]
Whether you’re looking for waves to ride, long stretches of sand, or lots of family activities, one of our picks for the 25 best beach towns in New England is sure to be the ideal getaway for you.
A second home doesn’t have to drain your bank account. One intrepid New Englander reveals how she landed her perfect waterfront getaway for less than $200,000.
Connecticut
Connecticuts Best Attractions 2012
Yankee Magazine chooses Connecticut’s best attractions for 2012. BEST ART & HISTORY MUSEUM Bush-Holley Historic Site, Cos Cob Roam the harbor-view hill where American Impressionist artists found inspiration. View their works on the walls of their boarding house; step further back in rooms that reflect the house’s 18th-century origins. 39 Strickland Road. 203-869-6899; hstg.org/visit_bh.php BEST […]
Joyce Tenneson is famous for her ethereal, romantic photographs of women, flowers, seashells, and now trees. She is one of the few serious photographers who dares to tackle obvious beauty in an age of ironic ugliness. I have long regarded her as the Andrew Wyeth of photography. Just as Wyeth painted as though […]
Not to sound too provincial, but when something really big and exciting happens to you in New York, the significance and excitement seem magnified by a thousand. On Monday night, my book, The Apple Lover’s Cookbook, won big: an award for the Best American/Regional Cookbook from the International Association of Culinary Professionals. It was the […]
Magazine
I Took a Voyage on the R.M.S Titanic
Excerpt from “I Took a Voyage on the R.M.S Titanic,” Yankee Magazine, June 1981. Marjorie Newell Robb of Westport Point, Massachusetts, was one of the last survivors of Titanic disaster. Here’s her story: At the age of 56, Mr. Arthur W. Newell of Lexington, Massachusetts, had finally attained that station of life to which he […]
In 2002, the University of Maine Museum of Art, which had resided on the campus of the state’s flagship state university in Orono, moved off campus and into Norumbega Hall, a former dance hall, bowling alley, and Sears store on the Kenduskeag Stream canal in the heart of downtown Bangor. “If we were […]
Back on February 2, artist Kim Bernard of North Berwick, Maine, noted on her blog that seeing Alexander Calder’s Circus at the Whitney Museum of Art was a highlight of her recent trip to New York City. “I could see this every day and never grow tired of it, especially the video and Calder […]