Rising early on Saturday, January 21, I headed out the door and was on my way to historic Rockland, Maine, to join in the 8th Annual Pies on Parade celebration. The event is held the weekend before what is widely … Continue reading
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The World of Winter Squared
The calendar on the day these words will first appear will read January 27, 2012. But in our Yankee editorial offices here in Dublin we are already deep into the winter of 2013. Our colleagues at the Old Farmer’s Almanac, … Continue reading
What a Difference a Word Makes
During the last several months, I’ve been proofreading some of the copy for advertisements, newsletters, and Yankee stories. This task has made me even more sensitive than usual to the importance of proper language usage. Recently, while dining at a local … Continue reading
Loving Winter in New England: Creating a Special Jan/Feb Cover
I’ve always found the production cycle of a magazine to be fairly odd. My last blog entry on YankeeMagazine.com was to be entitled, “Christmas in July,” but I got sidetracked and failed to complete it among all the other tasks … Continue reading
The Future Calls
Here’s an interesting little secret about magazine editors: We’re time travelers. Yes, it’s true. Okay, it’s not the kind of time travel Hollywood gushes over. We’re not armed with flux capacitors or sleek looking DeLoreans. I have no idea how the stock … Continue reading
Yankee Editor Mel Allen’s First Byline
The other day I was cleaning out a closet, where I have stacked too many boxes of papers and notebooks filled with interviews from two decades (or more) ago. A photo I had not seen for many years spilled out. … Continue reading
The Haunting of Yankee’s Parking Lot
A month ago I posted an article about the odd attraction people have to our parking lot and speculated that some type of mystical force might be at work. This week I present definitive proof that our parking lot is … Continue reading
Darn Kids, Get Off My Lawn!
What is it about a rectangular patch of grass that so captivates the New England psyche? Is it genetic? Cultural? What am I missing? For the life of me I can’t figure out why everyone thinks the Yankee parking lot … Continue reading
Ethan Daniels, Underwater Photographer
As a child on Cape Cod, Ethan Daniels fell in love with water and the mysteries within it. He learned to swim and sail there, and later (in order to become an intern at the New England Aquarium) he learned … Continue reading
The Circus Comes to Town
One of my favorite photo pieces we’ve run in Yankee focused on the young performers of Circus Smirkus in 2001. Our photographer, Dana Smith, captured these beautifully composed portraits in black and white. There is such an intensity and allure … Continue reading