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On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, we first visit Nestlenook Farm in Jackson, New Hampshire, for a horse-drawn sleigh ride. Then, we’re off to Boston for a food lover’s tour with Barbara Lynch, one of the country’s top chefs, Finally, we escape the crowds for a cross country skiing excursion on the pristine trails of northern New England.

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, Yankee magazine editor Mel Allen takes us on a tour of New Hampshire’s famed Kancamagus Highway. Next, we head to Vermont for an autumn visit with goat farmer and Vermont Creamery cheese maker Allison Hooper. Finally, we wrap things up with a look at the mega-foliage town of Kent, Connecticut.

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, we’re in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, at the Norman Rockwell Museum, which houses the famed painter’s best-known works. Next up is Woodstock, Vermont, where Gillingham & Sons has served as the region’s ultimate general store since 1886. Lastly, it’s off to Biddeford, Maine, for a taste of the Palace Diner, a classic New England eatery reimagined by two ambitious young chefs.

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, we visit the Well at Jordan’s Farm, where one
small farm gives new meaning to “farm to table” by serving its own produce just steps from the fields. Then we travel south to Connecticut’s Grace Farms for an up-close encounter with birds of prey. Then it’s off to Connecticut, where we cast for trout with fisherman, artist, and author James Prosek.

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, we’re at Vermont’s Shelburne Farms on the shores of Lake Champlain, where teams of farmers and food artisans raise Brown Swiss cows and make delicious cheeses from their milk. Next, we experience the Mount Washington Cog Railway, the world’s first of its kind. And finally, we’re at Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where history comes alive.

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, we’re at the Elms in Newport, Rhode Island, for a behind-the-scenes tour from this mansion’s caretaker of more than 30 years. Then we visit the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, Phillip Johnson’s private residence that forever changed architecture in America. And finally, a trip to Olneyville New York System, a Providence, Rhode Island, restaurant serving up Coney Island–style wieners to four generations of customers.