Welcome to the December 2011 edition of Jud’s New England Journal, the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, the Editor-in-Chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, N.H. How in the World Did the Donut Develop a Hole? Really now. This is important! There are, of course, countless theories. The most widely believed […]
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Getting to Know Provincetown
There is no better way to know a famous tourist town than arriving off season, when the tourists have left, and the locals reclaim their streets, their beaches, their way of life that brought them here in the first place, perhaps generations ago. I rarely visit a beautiful place without daydreaming at some point about […]
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The Privilege of Studio Visits
Amidst the busyness of the holidays, I confess that I neglected to visit a museum or gallery to feature this Thanksgiving week. But then that reminded me that museums and galleries aren’t necessarily the best places to see contemporary art. Like curators, collectors, critics and artists all over the world, I much […]
Exciting times this week! I was in New York yesterday making apple dumplings and apple butter with none other than Martha Stewart for her Martha Show. The episodes will air this Thursday, October 20, at 10 a.m. on the Hallmark Channel. Anyone who has paid attention to food or home design or crafts or magazines […]
A Timeline of New England Environmental Battles New England has seen major environmental conflicts for decades. Yankee polled a dozen regional groups to come up with the following timeline of some of the most contentious debates of the past 50 years. Whether environmentalists find themselves pitted against private industry, state and federal governments, or even […]
One-Pie canned pumpkin purée — an iconic New England brand keeps Maine’s canning industry alive, if only in memory.
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Best New England Historic Inns
Escape to a distant time at one of these New England historic inns, where 18th century ambience is preserved with style and comfort.
Quilts warm Connecticut writer Barbara Wysocki’s toes and delight her eyes. Founding editor of Layers, the New England Quilt Museum’s newsletter, she’s also written for Art & Antiques magazine and was a contributor to Quilts and Quiltmakers: Covering Connecticut (Schiffer Publishing). New England Quilt MuseumIn the heart of a community rich in textile history, these […]
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Made in the UK at RISD
Sometime before the end of the year, when we head to Providence to visit our oldest daughter and her family, we will definitely stop by the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art to check out Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection. The exhibition (September 23 to […]
The Northeast Kingdom of Vermont is a world apart, crowned by color-filled autumn vistas, historic byways, and secluded mountain lakes.
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Edward Hopper in Maine
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art has been setting attendance records this summer with Edward Hopper’s Maine, an exhibition (through October 16) of some 90 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints of Maine landscapes and cityscapes created during nine trips to Vacationland between the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and the stock market […]
My sense of fair play tells me it is way too soon to return to the Center for Maine Contemporary Art for a review even though the July 20 post about Steve Mumford’s drawings and paintings of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has been the most popular and controversial Just Looking post ever. But, […]