Yankee 1996 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
A bug in his ear. (moth) | General interest | Wilbur Willey |
Across the roof of New England. (old US Route 2) | General interest | Christine Schultz |
A hankie is nothing to sneeze at. (handkerchiefs)(includes related article on collecting handkerchiefs) | General interest | Polly Bannister |
A home close to home.(Loch Lyme Lodge, Lyme, New Hampshire) | General interest | W.D. Wetherell |
A light in the window. (abandoned wife) | General interest | John Monahan |
'And remember to look up at the hills.' (New England autumn) | General interest | Nick Howe |
An oasis in Boston. (the Tiniest House)(House for Sale: If you love one, you surely won't love the other) | General interest | |
Anybody got a 'no stamp act' teapot? (political pottery) | General interest | Polly Bannister |
A place where gentlemen are made. (Avon Old Farms School in Avon, CT) | General interest | Steve Buckley |
Aquidneck's green jewel. (Norman Bird Sanctuary on Rhode Island's Aquidneck Island) | General interest | John Monahan |
A real Cape Cod treasure.(Cape Cod Natural History Museum, Brewster, Massachusetts) | General interest | Pat Mandell |
A Shelburne Falls shopping safari. (western Massachusetts artisans) | General interest | Suki Casanave |
A treat for Labor Day. (honey cake recipe) | General interest | Susan Butterworth |
Chambers of melody. (music box store) | General interest | Lynda Morgenroth |
Chez nous. (Maine's St. John Valley) | General interest | Mark T. Sullivan |
Crackerbarrel diplomacy.(general store owner George Stone) | General interest | George Kendall |
Detonation days. (fireworks) | General interest | Nick Howe |
Diary of a leaf peeper. (fall foliage tour) | General interest | Todd Balf |
Do they really fly? Really? (Peary caribou)(excerpt from 'Flight of the Reindeer: The True Story of Santa Claus and His Christmas Mission')(The Season of Miracles)(The Miracle of Reindeer) | General interest | Robert Sullivan |
Early on an April morning: if you want to see how the American Revolution really started, you have to get up before dawn. | General interest | Robert Sullivan |
Faithful and true: Keewaydin, the oldest summer camp in America, is happily out of step with the times. | General interest | Alexander Wolff |
Feline heaven on the Ducktrap River.(cat boarding business and home for sale in Lincolnville, Maine)(includes related advice for cat owners) | General interest | |
Fiscal responsibility. (part 1: Brigadier General Edwin H. Stoughton) | General interest | Jon Vara |
Francis's folly. (canal gate built by James B. Francis) | General interest | John S. Trant Sr. |
From Saunderstown to Point Judith... again. (Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island)(House for Sale) | General interest | |
God never made a better berry. (strawberries)(includes recipes) | General interest | Kathy Neustadt |
Governor for a day.(Hiram Bingham of Connecticut) | General interest | |
Grandma's fluffy ruffles. (lemon Jello dessert; includes other old family recipes) | General interest | Vickie S. Losey, Judith D. Grimes, Janet Morse Dean |
Hats off to Harriet! (Massachusetts Audubon Society founder Harriet Hemenway) | General interest | |
Ho say can you see? (controversy over a painted gas storage tank supposedly resembling Ho Chi Minh) | General interest | Richard Romeo |
How to become a morning person. (sleeping and waking) | General interest | Jay Heinrichs |
If it's Monday, it must be jazz. (Hartford, CT, jazz festivals) | General interest | Steve Kemper |
In praise of slow food.(winter cookery)(includes recipes) | General interest | Nancy Harmon Jenkins |
In search of the perfect cider. (apple cider)(includes recipes) | General interest | Kathy Neustadt, Steven Latorre |
Inside baseball. (recollection of a game played at the Main State Prison) | General interest | E.B. Mills |
In the valley of Bear Mountain. (secluded country home)(House for Sale: If you love one, you surely won't love the other) | General interest | |
... It wouldn't be Christmas without it. (Christmas cookies, desserts and soup)(includes recipes)(The Season of Miracles)(The Miracle of Food & Family) | General interest | Marian Tietz Anderson, Linda L. Atkins, Brooke Baysinger, Nina Kareyeva, Kathryn Sheehan, Susan Sauter, Janet Stiff, Joan Olsen Brown, Jennie Ashlock |
Jumping from heaven. (quarry diving) | General interest | James Sullivan |
Living in a legend. ('Ocean-Born Mary House' in Henniker, NH) | General interest | |
Living the good life in the most photographed village in Vermont. (Peacham, Vermont)(House for Sale) | General interest | |
Making peace with the Battenkill. (Vermont river, trout fishing) | General interest | William G. Tapply |
Making the rounds with Newport's pineapple lady.(Adelle Taylor, publisher of The Pineapple Post in Newport, Rhode Island)(includes information on housing in Newport) | General interest | |
Man, woman, child, star. (reflection of a star in the ice evokes Biblical images)(The Season of Miracles)(The Miracle of This Moment) | General interest | Laura Ricard |
Mert and my bear. (resident who shot a wayward bear in a Vermont village) | General interest | Alison Freeland |
Month of the iguana.(lizards loose in New England) | General interest | |
Mount Deserted.(Acadia National Park in winter) | General interest | Michael Burke |
Mr. Carkin's classroom. (sixth-grade teacher) | General interest | Howard Mansfield |
Neighbor Tryon. (Maine personality) | General interest | Stephen Hyde |
Onguit, half off. (small town in southern Maine) | General interest | Elissa Elly |
Out of this world. (Hancock Shaker Village, Massachusetts) | General interest | Mary (English Founder) Potter |
Perfectly grand in Prouts Neck. (artist Winslow Homer) | General interest | Craig Fisher |
'Please don't let us kill someone.' (out of control automobile) | General interest | Don Weafer |
Putting plants in their places. (New England nurseries) | General interest | Eliot Tozer |
Real gardeners grow houseplants.(The Great Houseplant Debate: To Grow or Not to Grow?) | General interest | Tovah Martin |
Remembering Camp Stark. (World War II prisoner-of-war camp) | General interest | Jon Vara |
Return of the Barbarians. (rock group) | General interest | |
Rural rescue: there's more to providing first aid in a small town than just fiddling with high-tech rescue gear. | General interest | David Goodman |
Scientist in a treehouse. (childhood memory) | General interest | Robert Lanza |
Sledding on thin ice.(Ice Rescue Sled) | General interest | |
Steamed cheeseburgers. | General interest | Matthew Lubanko |
Straight to the plate: Vermont chefs and farmers are teaming up to produce fresher, more flavorful meals. (includes recipes and a related article with cooking tips) | General interest | Ben Watson |
Sweet and wild. (Martha's Vineyard fruits and berries)(includes recipes) | General interest | Jean Wexler |
The best of Bennington.(Bennington Museum in Bennington, Vermont) | General interest | |
The butterfly's song. (butterflies in New England) | General interest | Castle Freeman Jr. |
The care and feeding of antique pans. (cast iron pans) | General interest | |
The comfort of beavers. | General interest | Nicholas Howe |
The compassionate assassin. (1960 incident involving Pres Kennedy) | General interest | James Chenoweth |
The first gold medalist. (athlete James B. Connolly) | General interest | Richard Romeo |
The hardest-working river in New England. (Deerfield River) | General interest | Ben Watson |
The heavier the pan, the lighter the muffin. (cast-iron baking)(includes recipes) | General interest | Beth Kidder |
The honey-dipped are still hot. (donut shop) | General interest | Michelle Seaton |
The impossible nightmare. (1986 World Series) | General interest | Steve Gilbert |
The Italians at Amato's. (Italian sandwiches sold in Portland, Maine) | General interest | John Lovell |
The long silence of Lizzie Borden. (famed murder suspect) | General interest | Don Weafer |
The making of a mensch. (aftermath of fire at Malden Mills Industries Inc.; Malden Mills Industries President Aaron Feuerstein)(The Season of Miracles)(The Miracle of Justice)(Interview) | General interest | Lynda Morgenroth |
The new woman. (1896 valedictory address) | General interest | |
The night the dam broke. (Alton, New Hampshire, disaster) | General interest | Bob Trebilcock |
The owl man of Logan Airport.(amateur naturalist Norman Smith) | General interest | Patricia Mandell |
The price of the presidency.(Calvin Coolidge) | General interest | Richard Norton Smith |
The Rockefellers owe me. (anecdote from 1930) | General interest | Thomas Scammon |
The salt ponds of Rhode Island. | General interest | Cheryl Lyn Dybas |
The simplest way to totally change your life. (New Hampshire inn) | General interest | |
The skate box. (ice skates) | General interest | Paul Brigadier |
The stern pleasures of New England golf. | General interest | Jim Didson |
The theoretical nature of Nantucket surf fishing. | General interest | W.B. Park, Bob Clawson |
The toy that says "I love you."(Raggedy Ann dolls) | General interest | |
The Vermont island famous New Yorkers adored. (Neshobe Island) | General interest | |
The warm light of welcome. (includes related information on making snow lanterns and ice lanterns)(The Season of Miracles)(The Miracle of Fire & Ice) | General interest | Dorinda Beaumont |
The wealth of Wadsworth.(Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut) | General interest | |
Traveler's journal: advice, wisdom & lots of fun things to do all across New England in December 1996. | General interest | |
Traveler's journal. (New England activities) | General interest | |
Travis Ford does the weather. (conductor of the Metro-North train in the southwestern corner of Connecticut) | General interest | Steve Kemper |
Treasures waiting to be found.(cookbook collecting) | General interest | Jan Longone |
Two families, two truths. (1939 midair collision) | General interest | E.B. Mills |
Welcome to Essex, the best small town in America! (Essex, CT) | General interest | Richard Conniff |
When the telescope nuts come back to Stellafane.(amateur astronomers convention, Springfield, Vermont) | General interest | Howard Mansfield |
Where you can have a fresh bagel with a future president of the United States. (New Hampshire restaurant) | General interest | |
Who are 'The Donkey People?' (eastern Connecticut home)(House for Sale) | General interest | |
Why did the tenants paint the evergreens blue? (renting property) (includes related article with tips for prospective landlords) | General interest | Susan Dooley, George Corey |
Why my Mom is a great New England cook. | General interest | Penny O'Connor, Susan Zotto, Avery Greenhalgh |
Yankee awards for 1995. (for poetry and art) | General interest | |
You can get there from here. (long bus trip between Portland, Maine, and Belfast, Maine) | General interest | Gerard S. Walker |
"You give me supper. I give you strawberries." (Robert Frost) | General interest | Peter M. Hewitt |
You've come a long way, Fannie.(100th anniversary of Fannie Farmer's 'Boston Cooking School Cook Book')(includes recipes) | General interest | Dave McFeely |
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