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Episode 203: Small Is Beautiful

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, we kick things off with an outing to a Connecticut Tigers baseball game. Next, we travel up the coast of Maine in search of the ultimate lobster roll, which leads us to an idyllic cove in South Thomaston and a classic little shack called McLoons. To round things out, we hike into the Ossipee Mountains to discover Castle in the Clouds, a hidden gem nestled high above New Hampshire’s famed Lakes Region.

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Episode 202: Into the Wild

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, we board a boat off Chatham, Massachusetts, to accompany one of the leading researchers tracking great white sharks along the Atlantic coast. From there we head to a remote corner of inland Maine to visit The Lost Kitchen, one of the most sought-after dinner reservations in the country. Finally, it’s off to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, where we go flying up and down the mountain biking trails of Burke Mountain.

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Episode 201: The End of The Line

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, we’re in Provincetown, Massachusetts, for an off-road ramble through Cape Cod National Seashore. Next, we travel down to Rhode Island and out onto Narragansett Bay to hear the story of the Rose Island Lighthouse, which has been keeping watch over those waters for more than a century. For our last stop, we board a ferry to the Maine island of North Haven, where we bring some of its bounty back to the kitchen of Nebo Lodge.

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Episode 113: Winter in New England

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, we first visit Nestlenook Farm in Jackson, New Hampshire. Then, we’re off to Boston for a food lover’s tour. Finally, a cross-country skiing excursion in northern New England.

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Episode 112: Fall Color

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.

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Episode 111: Quintessential Villages

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.

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Episode 110: Back to the Land

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, we visit the Well at Jordan’s Farm, Connecticut’s Grace Farms, and then a visit with fisherman, artist, and author James Prosek.

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Episode 109: The Island

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, we’re on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts to check out the historic Oak Bluffs gingerbread cottages. Next, we’re off to Maine’s Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island.

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Episode 108: Yankee Ingenuity

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.

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Episode 107: Land and Water

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, we start in Providence, Rhode Island. Then it’s off to New Hampshire and the serenity of Squam Lake. Rounding things out is a visit to the Farm Coast in Massachusetts.

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Episode 106: Icons of New England

On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, we’re at the Elms in Newport, Rhode Island; the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; and a trip to Olneyville New York System, a Providence, Rhode Island, restaurant.

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