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Welcome to the Yankee blogs. Join in to find out more about New England living: activities, good food, local music, travel ideas, for example. Share your comments with the editors. Oh yes, you might learn what goes on behind the scenes at Yankee.
New England is Delicious
Amy Traverso
Yankee Magazine lifestyle editor Amy Traverso travels New England searching for the best food to share with Yankee’s readers, then takes that inspiration into the kitchen. A Connecticut native, Amy calls New England “one of the most vibrant and innovative food scenes in the country. It has truly become a very delicious place to live.” In September, W.W. Norton & Company published her book, The Apple Lover’s Cookbook.
Read current New England is Delicious blogs. | Read archives.
Behind the Scenes at Yankee Magazine
Yankee Staff
New England speaks to people in different ways. Seemingly everyone who’s spent time in our region has a lasting impression of it, and we at Yankee Magazine feel the same way.
We’ve created this blog to let our staff to share their own thoughts on New England. Keep reading and you just may get a glimpse into what goes on behind the scenes at Yankee.
Read current Behind the Scenes at Yankee Magazine blogs. | Read archives.
The Crafty Yankee
Christine Chitnis
Christine Chitnis joins our team of bloggers to provide you with ideas and instructions for simple Yankee crafts.
Christine is a Providence-based writer, photographer and environmental educator with a talent for bringing her images to life by focusing on color and texture. Her writing has appeared in Country Living, Time Out New York, Edible Rhody, and The Washington Post, among many other local and national publications. Christine first picked up a camera as a way to illustrate her writing, and soon discovered a passion for capturing the details that make up daily life. She spent the past year traveling across New England in search of the most unique, vibrant, and thriving farmers markets and art events for her book, Markets of New England (The Little Bookroom, 2011).
Read current The Crafty Yankee blogs. | Read archives.
Gardening in New England
Shelly Fleming-Wigglesworth
Shelley Fleming-Wigglesworth is a certified Maine Master Gardener and award winning newspaper columnist from Kennebunk, Maine. She has been writing for the York County Coast Star for more than a decade as a freelance columnist and features writer. In 2010 she began writing her own gardening column “The Master Gardener’s Notebook” for Tourist News. She also teaches gardening classes at local schools and colleges.
Read current Gardening in New England blogs. | Read archives.
The Yankee Seeker
Aimee Seavey
Celebrating history and tradition in New England.
Aimee Seavey is a proud lifelong New Englander with a passion for history, food, and the way the two are connected through regional and family traditions. She lives in Boston and spends most of her free time exploring the city’s many cultural, historical, and culinary offerings. She cannot resist vintage cookbooks, kitchen tools, or a good story about a New England dish or a family recipe. Join her as she delves into New England’s rich history and traditions and shares her findings with you.
Read current The Yankee Seeker blogs.
Just Looking: New England Art
Ed Beem
A Critic’s Eye on New England Art
Take a look at art in New England with Edgar Allen Beem. Read his recent interview on contemporary art in New England with the Abbeville Manual of Style.
He’s been art critic for the Portland Independent, art critic and feature writer for Maine Times, and now is a freelance writer for Yankee, Down East, Boston Globe Magazine, The Forecaster, and Photo District News.
He’s the author of Maine Art Now (1990) and Maine: The Spirit of America (2000). In 1988, he won the Manufacturers Hanover Art/World Award for Distinguished Newspaper Art Criticism for his coverage of the 1987 auction sale of Vincent Van Gogh’s Irises.
Ed says, “My credo as an arts writer has long been: ‘The work of art is the search for meaning.’ I believe art is not only a form of personal expression but also a form of inquiry, every bit as much a quest for truth as scientific research.”
Ed Beem’s newest book, Backyard Maine: Local Essays, has just been published by Tilbury House, Publishers, of Gardiner, Maine. It’s not about the meaning of art; it’s about the meaning of family, community, and life in general. Edgar Beem is currently at work on a new book about contemporary art in Maine to be published in the fall of 2012.
Read current New England Art blogs. | Read archives.
New England Guest Blog
Guest Blog
At Yankee, we know that New England speaks to people in different ways. Yet seemingly everyone who’s spent time in our region — a day or a lifetime — has a lasting impression of it. We’ve created this blog for lovers of New England to share their experiences.
As the rest of the world starts to look an awful lot alike, New England stubbornly retains a unique character that has made it a welcoming home for hundreds of years. Our guest bloggers celebrate that character.
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Explore New England
Explore New England
Join the Yankee editors as they hit the road to explore the small towns and bustling cities of New England. They’ll share their favorite dining, lodging and entertainment spots while giving you a glimpse of the people and places that make up this unique region.
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Made in New England
Jim Therriault
Founder and Proprietor, New England Everyday Goods, Peterborough, NH.
Just a stone’s throw down the road from Yankee Publishing’s headquarters, Jim operates a little store in downtown Peterborough that specializes in practical products with interesting stories. Having lived all of his half-century in New Hampshire, he knows a bit about the region and considers himself a pretty good judge of things made in New England.
Jim’s official title on his business card reads “jack of many trades, master of none.” That comes from a diversified career that spans working in publishing, marketing, advertising, sales, and retail across a variety of industries ranging from information technology to citrus to footwear. Based on all the different jobs he’s held, Jim whole-heartedly feels promoting and selling goods crafted by fellow New Englanders – people with iron-clad integrity and values – is as good as it gets.
Read current Made in New England Blogs.
Home Again
Amy Traverso
Senior Lifestyle Editor, Amy Traverso, shares her experience of renovating and decorating a 1920s Craftsman-style home.
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Outdoor Adventures
Heather Atwell
During the winter months, Heather Atwell is Yankee Magazine’s New England ski blogger. She reports on her ski experiences across New England, offers ski tips, shares news of great deals and writes about her favorite season.
The offspring of parents who met in the lift line at Vermont’s Stowe Mountain, Heather has skied since she could walk. She’s a fully certified PSIA instructor who knows New England ski areas from her four years working for Ski Vermont and from her lifelong love of the sport.
The rest of the year, Heather searches for outdoor adventures in the great outdoors of New England. And she shares some of those adventures in Yankee’s New England Outdoors Adventure Blog.
Read current New England Outdoor Adventure blogs. | Read archives.
Plus, more great blogs from Yankee Magazine!
Diary of a Ski Patrolman: Recent college graduate and former Yankee intern Josh Allen, spent last summer as a sea kayak guide in Maine, and then was accepted into the ski patrol training program at Okemo Mountain in Ludlow, Vermont. Each week, from the first day of training to become a full fledged Ski Patrolmen, he will take us behind the scenes at one of New England’s most popular and busy mountains. Read archives.
New England Music Reviews: The first concert Justin Shatwell ever saw was Hootie and the Blowfish about two years after they stopped being famous. He’s still trying to live that down. As part of his musical penance, he now writes New England Music Reviews, a showcase for small (and some not-so-small) indie artists with roots in New England. Justin believes that, like vegetables, the best music is grown locally. Read the reviews, listen to the music, and get a taste of the local flavor for yourself. Read archives.
New England Photography: Susan Cole Kelly has been photographing New England for over 20 years and works with local and national magazines, tour guides, and on calendars. She has photographed three books and written one, Our Massachusetts by Voyageur Press. Her favorite subjects are lighthouses, villages and harbors, and the natural beauty of the Northeast. Read archives.
Today at Mary’s Farm: Edie Clark has written extensively about New England in award-winning feature stories for Yankee Magazine for the past thirty years. Her column, Mary’s Farm, has been a popular feature in Yankee since 1990. She is the author of two essay collections, The View from Mary’s Farm and Saturday Beans and Sunday Suppers, Kitchen Stories from Mary’s Farm. A new book, States of Grace: Encounters with Real Yankees, has just been published. This and her other books are available on www.edieclark.com. Read archives.
4 Responses to Yankee Blogs
I don’t have a comment, but I do have a question. My daughter and I were remembering an article from Yankee Magazine that was printed in the late 1970′s or early 1980′s. The article was about flying reindeer and described real reindeer that could “fly”. If memory serves me correctly, the
reindeer were very small and their bones were extremely lightweight so that when they jumped, they remained airborne for a time. This story so
fascinated my daughter, Christian (who was about nine for ten at the time)
and me, that we kept that copy of the magazine. Unfortunately the magazine got misplaced, what with moving and closet-cleaning and so forth. Does anyone remember that article? Would you ever consider
reprinting is again? Karen Bomster
We’re not going to reprint that story but you would likely be able to find the book from which it was excerpted. Flight of the Reindeer by Robert Sullivan. Yankee’s art director at the time designed the book. I hate sending people to Amazon, but it’s there.
I too would really like to see that article again about the Flying Reindeer. I read it as an adult and it was so “factual” I actually believed it until someone told me it was fiction.
Lloyd Haron…..follow what guide?
We’re not going to reprint that story but you would likely be able to find the book from which it was excerpted. Flight of the Reindeer by Robert Sullivan. Yankee’s art director at the time designed the book. I hate sending people to Amazon, but it’s there.