Dear Yankee | March 2018

Star Power

On opening your January/February issue, I was brought to tears reading “Leaving Mary’s Farm” [about columnist Edie Clark’s good-bye to her New Hampshire homestead]. I then turned to Edie’s essay “Night Sky.”

I remembered an event from a few months ago, a severe storm that knocked out power for all of Cape Elizabeth—something that hadn’t happened even during the infamous ice storm. At one point, I opened the front door and was dumbstruck by the brilliance of the stars in the night sky. In the 30 years I have lived here, I had never seen the cape completely dark.

How lucky for Edie that she was able to have so many nights with that blessing just outside her front door. God bless Edie and Yankee for sharing Mary’s Farm with us for all these years.

Ann Patch Cape Elizabeth, Maine

Eating It Up

I live in South Portland, Maine, and my mother, who lives in Connecticut, sends me a subscription to Yankee every year. I called to talk to her on her birthday this week, and she asked if I had seen the new issue and if I’d ever been to the Holy Donut in Portland (of course I have!). I decided to bring her a few samples for her birthday, and we thought you’d like to see the results. We enjoyed every bite!

Stephanie and Barbara McSherry

Big in Brooklyn

I thoroughly enjoyed reading “A Movable Forest” [November/December] by Julia Shipley and Joe Keohane. My mom gets your magazine on a regular basis and passed this article over to me when I came home for Sunday dinner a few weeks ago. Life has been a little crazy recently, but I just got around to reading it this morning and couldn’t put it down.

I’m a native New Yorker who has spent every summer since birth in Spofford, New Hampshire. I recently purchased an apartment in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, and have lived here for the past year and a half. When I read the story of the Christmas tree farmers and their connection to my current neighborhood, it made me feel all of the warm, fuzzy holiday feelings. It also connected with me on a spiritual level. As a Christian woman, I appreciated the sharing of the farmers’ personal faith story. Thank you!

Rebecca Wells Brooklyn, New York

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