Dear Yankee | September 2017

Tuning In

Just wanted to send a quick message about Weekends with Yankee on PBS. The “Icons of New England” episode is the first I’ve ever seen, featuring segments on Olneyville New York System wieners and Philip Johnson’s Glass House. I look forward to many more episodes, but this was a great one to catch for my first time….

I am a born-and-raised Southerner; however, beginning before college I would take a yearly trip to New England for either snowboarding and skiing in the winter/spring or a summer/fall trip for all the other amazing activities, food, people, and scenery. I would love to have a vacation home in New England; at the very least, I would like to resume my yearly excursions to New England for my family, so they can experience all of the sights and sounds that I fell in love with many, many years ago. All of this reignited by one episode of Weekends with Yankee. Please keep up the great work, and I can’t wait to get back.

Josh Escue Acworth, Georgia

Maternal Pride

When I saw the words “How Many Lobster Rolls Can You Eat in 10 Minutes?” on your cover, I immediately turned to the story inside [“Feeding Frenzy,” July/August]. In 2010, my son, Matt “Megatoad” Stonie, won the Hampton Beach Lobster Roll Eating Contest, stuffing down 24½ lobster rolls in 10 minutes. To this day, although “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti and Teddy Delacruz came very close, Matt still holds the record. I wish that fact had been included in the article.

Matt, who is now 25, lives in California but spends his summers with his grandparents, the Rev. Henry Stonie and Mary Jo Stonie, in Hampton, New Hampshire. His eating escapades are eagerly covered by the Hampton Union and the Portsmouth Herald every summer. 

Cathy Stonie San Jose, California

‘Hometown’ Hero

I expect you will get many notes thanking you for publishing “Hometown” [July/August]. I was drawn into every photograph and lingered over them and returned to them again and again. That is the very thing every photographer, amateur or pro, seeks to make happen, and few do. Not in the way Barbara Peacock has managed…. I have never felt so uplifted by anyone’s work as I do seeing these moments from a hometown.

Diana Hayes South Woodstock, Vermont, and Bedford, New Hampshire

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