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The Gift of Silence
The main entrance of the Boston Public Library, 1895.Charles Pollock. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. “Silence is the gift we give each other.” A Catholic monk...
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Boston in Winter | Photographs
Photographer Christopher Churchill spent the winter of 2010 photographing the architecture and landscape of the city of Boston in winter for the 2011 Yankee Magazine feature, Earned Gifts of a Boston...
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The House That Changed Everything | Kragsyde
By Jane Goodrich The tale of Kragsyde—and what happened when a young couple first traveled to see the legendary shingled mansion in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts—unfolds like an O. Henry short...
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The House That Changed Everything | The 19th-Century Massachusetts Mansion...
By Jane Goodrich The tale of Kragsyde—and what happened when a young couple first traveled to see the legendary shingled mansion in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts—unfolds like an O. Henry short...
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The Readable Feast
New England’s rich literary tradition has long extended to the world of food writing and cookbooks. The first American cookbook was published in Hartford, Connecticut, by Hudson & Goodwin in 1796....
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The Yankee Flier | Amelia Earhart
This portrait of Amelia Earhart was taken in 1928—the year she became a household name—by Boston news photographer Leslie Jones. It’s among nearly 40,000 of his images from the first half of the 20th...
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Boston Hotels with a View
With both the Charles River and the Atlantic Ocean lapping at its doorstep, Boston enjoys all the scenic benefits of being a city on the water while also boasting a distinctive mix of grand historic...
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Sticking Power | Timeless New England
The aftermath of the January 15, 1919, molasses tank rupture on Commercial Street between Copps Hill and the North End Park playground. Cleanup crews used millions of gallons of salt water to help...
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The Mother Library
By Glenn Stout “Libraries raised me,” wrote Ray Bradbury. He’s not the only one. Growing up, I marked each week by the days between visits to our town library and by the stack of books I slowly...
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Rhody to Rumble I can’t tell you how dismayed I was to learn that someone had decided that there were only two towns in New England—Portland and Boston—even worthy of “New England’s dining crown”...
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Yankee’s 20 Best Photos of 2019
Yankee is blessed to have so many talented photographers in New England to call upon for its stories — something that came through loud and clear in the magazine’s 2019 issues. Among the best photo...
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5 Worst Fires in New England History
They are the stuff of nightmares: fires that can raze a building in minutes or reshape an entire landscape in hours. These terrifying events can not only take lives but also forever change those who...
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The Bridges of Barnstable County | An Ode to the Cape Cod Bridges
Cape-bound traffic snakes its way over the Sagamore Bridge in July 1972. Today, Cape Cod, which has a year-round population of about 215,000, hosts an estimated 7 million residents and tourists over...
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