Yankee ingenuity
On its 75th anniversary, the venerable magazine is still ahead of the curve
Boston Globe / September 7, 2010
DUBLIN, N.H. — Robb Sagendorph was a classic Yankee. Frugal and self-sufficient, committed to tradition — and more than a little cranky — he personified the New Englander he hoped to reach when he founded Yankee magazine in 1935.
throughout the years the tall, dour Sagendorph, who died in 1970, wasn’t exactly prone to fits of laughter. Today, however, there is plenty of good cheer in the halls of the old red barn that still houses his magazine, across from town hall and the hilltop flagpole in this picturesque hamlet.
With its September-October issue, Yankee is celebrating its 75th anniversary.
In contrast to its old-fashioned image, Yankee was an early adopter of online content, way back in the 1990s. For the 75th anniversary year, the magazine has been publishing a favorite feature from its archives on its website every weekday.
click: YANKEE
good article, cider time~~ makes me glad to be home!
edit later to add...i got the last copy at my store. yippee!
but go to the website for HUNDREDS of classic New England recipes! it's fabulous!! from apples to pumpkins to maple syrup to indian pudding to boiled dinner and clams and scallops! YUMMY!!
click for scrumpy~ CIDER
It makes me feel a little nostalgic seeing that magazine. I used to see it on my grandparents coffee table back in the day & I haven't even heard anyone say, "boiled dinner" since I left home.
There's a Red House over yonder
That's where my baby stays
There's a Red House over yonder, baby
That's where my baby stays
Well, I ain't been home to see my baby,
in ninety nine and one half days.
'Bout time I see her,
Wait a minute something's wrong here
The key won't unlock the door.
Wait a minute something's wrong baby,
Lord, have mercy, this key won't unlock this door,
something's goin' on here.
it's sugar time! YAY! get out those buckets Maggot!
this week in Maine--->
Amish farmer Edward Kulp keeps a hold on buckets filled wih maple sap as he and his horse Truzy and wagon descend a steep hill in a field off Ward Hill Road in Unity on Saturday. Kulp said the sap runs have been good so far considering the early season.
Steve Longfellow, 16, taps a Maple tree Monday at his family's Farmingdale farm. Longfellow said it was early for the sap to run in the sugar bush but "it's been a little warm in the afternoon"
Mitton said most of his jugs he hung last week were full of the sweet stuff from afternoon run off.
A tree that size you can hang 4 buckets I have 6 a little smaller than that and I put 3 on each one. I can get 2 gallons a year. Good enough for me. 40⁄1 is the ratio.
wow this stinks. all that work stolen.
video report below
ENOSBURGH, Vt. (WGGB) – A Vermont maple sugar farmer lost his entire crop, worth thousands of dollars and months of hard work, all in one horrible night.
Sugaring is a way of life for Stephen Perley. The Franklin County sugar maker has seen the family operation evolve from a handful of trees and horse drawn sap collection, to high-tech tubing zig-zagging between 13,000 taps.
There’s one sign of the changing times, though, that this sugar maker wasn’t prepared for.
Thieves made off with his maple syrup.
Maple sugar farmer Stephen Perley says, “They broke the motion detector there and there was glass all over the ground and the cover for the lights was knocked off sitting on the groumd and that was the first thing we noticed.”
Perley’s son says the thieves struck Wednesday night, and the tracks tell the tale of how they managed to move four full stainless steel barrels from the sugaring house to the road.
The 160 gallons of stolen syrup were waiting to be shipped to a commercial vendor. Now, the Perley’s are out $7,000
“These young fellows need money and don’t want to work for it, so stealing is the easy way out. I’m not as tough as I used to be, but 25 years ago, I probably would have had them caught by now,” says Perley.
Instead, he reported the theft and he’s leaving the investigating to the Sheriff’s office.
Detective Sgt. Kevin Bushey says, “I can’t emphasize enough these days, even up here in the country, that surveillance systems and alarms, I think unfortunately that has to be the way we’re going to have to go even here in the state of Vermont.”
Bushey says that thieves know the value of Vermont’s liquid gold and are trying to cash in on the crop.
Wishing for the ways of old, Perley has reluctantly agreed to lock up his liquid gold and for added security cameras and alarms to catch anyone trying to creep on their property.
“We’ll be watching. It’s not uncommon for one of us to drive up and down the road in the middle of the night now, just to see if someone is driving around or hanging around,” Perley says.
A sour end to Vermont’s sweet season for a sugar making family trying to salvage an already rough season.
makes me glad to be home!
AND I LOVE THE HOLIDAY STUFF~~
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