Feedback | Autumn 2015

Our favorite recent letters, Facebook posts, Instagram comments, and tweets. Happy 80th When we arrived home this Monday, August 24th, from a quick weekend to Wells, Maine, our Yankee magazine awaited us in our mailbox. It reminded me of why I love living in New England. As a native, with roots in New Hampshire, Vermont […]

By Yankee Magazine|Sep 17 2015|

A July 1957 issue of Yankee magazine with an illustrated yellow and green cover, placed on a wooden surface.

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Happy 80^th

When we arrived home this Monday, August 24th, from a quick weekend to Wells, Maine, our Yankee magazine awaited us in our mailbox. It reminded me of why I love living in New England. As a native, with roots in New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts, it is the only place I have ever lived. While I might contemplate relocating to a warmer climate, New England will most likely be my forever home. Thank you for an issue that gave me 80 good reasons to stay put!
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Sincerely,
Paulette Billiel
Montague City, Massachusetts

Could You Live Here: Littleton (July/August, 2015)

Love love love Littleton! The street pianos make me so happy. My husband had no idea I could play until I sat down at one of these and played in the sunshine!

Cari Kennedy

Recipe with a History: Succotash (July/August 2015)

Real succotash in Maine is made with shelled beans, not lima beans like folks from away do.

Bill Rolfe

Love it! My grandmother use to make it with corn and lima beans. I’m a Yankee born and bred!Pamela L. Ober

Damn Lima bean. My gramma made this a religious staple. To this day I pick lima beans outta any dish!!Diane Pouliot

Just give me the scallops. Hold the succotash.Anita Bailey

Question of the Month

What’s your favorite pie to make for the holidays?

Visit our Facebook page to answer. We’ll publish reader responses in the next issue of Yankee Plus!

In July we asked our Facebook fans… Do you call them jimmies or sprinkles? Here’s how some of you responded.

Jimmies. Grew up in NYC, went to school in Boston where they were called Jimmies and live in CT, where we call them sprinkles here. But I am bilingual and know how to ask for them by region.Jessica Moseley Gordon

Grew up in Hanson, Massachusetts. I live in Michigan now and still call them Jimmies. My friends and co-workers think I am NUTS! Thanks for the memory!Donna Ryan-Shyrock

We always called them jimmies when I was growing up in southeast Mass. Never heard them called “sprinkles” until I moved to VT.Doug Brigham Bassett

Jimmies. Grew up in western Mass. Live in midwest now. They never heard of grinders or package stores, let alone jimmies. There are a lot of differences. My kids were flabbergasted when we first moved here 19 years ago. I still can’t call soda, “pop.”Cynthia Nadeau

Asked for Jimmies at a DQ in Texas, they had no idea what we were talking about and our kid was freaking out thinking he wouldn’t get them. Then a lady behind us in line said, “Y’all must be from up north ain’t ya?” She proceeded to translate, “they mean cake sprinkles,” then everyone knew what we meant.Brian Stimpson Sr.

In late July we posted an image of our July 1957 issue. For Instagrammer Willowbarcelona, it brought back cherished memories.

I LOVE this. And the entire 1950s-1960s era of magazine cover illustration. Especially the @yankeemagazine covers in my grandparents’ and aunts’ and uncles’ and my parents’ homes. Yankee Magazine introduced my Madison Avenue advertising exec family to ordering from stores over the telephone as a complement to taking the NYC bus downtown to Bonwit Teller, B. Altman and Lord & Taylor. Those dear 1950s-60s Yankee covers were magical, especially to us children, and our imaginations could make stories out of their representational images so easily. Can think of at least 5 stories right now with this summer cover that maybe would not occur to me if it were a photograph. And this is from someone who adores the art of photography.