In the last days of September 1978, I joined a potato harvest crew on Donald Gallagher’s farm in northern Aroostook County, Maine. I worked for 40 cents a barrel. To fill a barrel you bent over, put a basket between your legs, and picked potatoes with both hands. After only an hour my legs had […]
In creating a home “you don’t want to leave,” Sandra Morgan Downie has drawn thousands of followers to her online doorstep.
Cape Neddick Light perches so handsomely on Nubble Island that we call it simply “Nubble Light.” It may well be the light we love most.
The dream of small towns, stone walls, covered bridges, country stores, and town greens are just some of the reasons why people love New England. What’s yours?
Yankee’s long-time Editor shares a list of favorite things to do in Vermont — from the quintessential Vermont town to the perfect foliage drive.
Landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy works to help people make their surroundings sing.
“I doubt the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.” —Heywood Broun, New York newspaper columnist, 1921 My first clear memory was of waking up at age 4 from a tonsillectomy on a Caribbean island and a nurse bringing me a dish of vanilla ice cream for […]
One Monday morning this past April, everyone in our Dublin, New Hampshire, office came together in a conference room for what would be one of the most touching occasions I have known in my more than 40 years here. A few days earlier, the community church next door had filled for the memorial to Tim […]
Yankee’s long-time Editor, Mel Allen, shares his picks for some of the most beautiful places in Maine — from Ogunquit Beach to Acadia National Park.
From Fenway sausages to September’s apple orchards, here are ten favorite, distinct smells of New England.
Acclaimed Rhode Island photographer Richard Schultz focuses his lens on his home turf (and surf).
“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. I have heard them all, and of the three elemental voices, that of ocean is the most awesome, beautiful, and varied.” —Henry Beston, The Outermost House […]
