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Travel: New England’s Best Clam Shacks

In a salute to summer, we discover the top spots for a fried-clam fix.

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Recipes: Rhubarb Favorites

Add some sweetness to your life with our collection of easy and delicious rhubarb recipes.

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Events: Sugar Hill Lupine Fest Stunning wildflowers take a seasonal spotlight in the New Hampshire mountain town of Sugar Hill.

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Travel: 10 Terrific Seaside Inns

From Maine to Connecticut, these top-notch coastal getaways come with the best ocean views.

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INSIDE YANKEE ’S JUNE ISSUE

BEST COASTAL TOWNS: From Ogunquit to Newport, we explore our go-to seaside escapes.  COOKING WITH YANKEE: Strawberry-rhubarb co ee cake updates a family recipe.

PERFECT WEEKEND: Discover the early-summer charms of Manchester, Vermont.

PHOTO OPS: We showcase the season’s best photographs from our Instagram community. YANKEE CLASSIC: Editor Mel Allen digs into the archives to bring back a favorite story.

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Kim Knox Beckius

Among those lending their expertise to the Best of New England [p. 107] is longtime contributing editor Beckius, author of six books on Northeast travel. Of the many memorable moments from her “Best” scouting trips, she singles this one out: “My daughter took one look at the tiny television in our room at the 19th-century Henry Collins Inn in Newport and asked me, ‘Are the TVs from the 1800s too?’”

Little Outdoor Giants

The Massachusetts natives behind this photo-video outfit, Dom Casserly and Jarrod McCabe, report that documenting life on a houseboat [“Slow Boat on a Big Lake,” p. 70] had its challenges. But, they add, “watching the sun rise and set over the lake each day, catching fish for dinner, slowing our pace of life (to 8 mph, to be exact)—it all burns into your memory a little more when you have to work harder for it.”

Wayne Curtis

“Researching and writing a story from your own screened-in porch—that’s pretty ideal,” says Curtis of his essay “A Place to Get Away” [p. 92]. A lifelong freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic and The New York Times, among others, he began writing for Yankee back in 1987, and Mel Allen has been his editor here ever since—“which has to be some sort of a freelance record,” Curtis jokes.

Sandy Rivlin

As half of the Massachusetts photography studio Hornick/Rivlin (the other half is husband Rick Hornick), Rivlin has spent 30-plus years creating images for businesses as well as publications like Cooking Light and The Boston Globe Magazine. Of her Yankee assignment [“A Shed of One’s Own,” p. 32], Rivlin says she was inspired by its focus on “women’s creativity, resourcefulness, and self-expression.”

J.P. SCHMELZER

This Wisconsin native is an award-winning fine artist and illustrator who once again playfully brings to life our Ask the Expert column [p. 28]. Last issue it was how to evict squirrels from attics; this time it’s about public speaking, aka “the best live theater there is,” in Schmelzer’s opinion. “Because in all cases the speaker has just one chance—and everything can go completely right or horribly wrong.”

Michael Seamans

Boston Herald staff photographer, Seamans is a self-described travel junkie who’s taken pictures all over the U.S., China, Europe, and Nicaragua. But shooting “A ‘Very Impressive Rock’” [p. 20] gave the New Hampshire resident the chance to sight-see in his own backyard, as he traveled to the legendary Madison Boulder. “You can’t appreciate how large it is,” he says, “until you see it in person.”

The Story Continues

When planning began last year for the feature “City of Hope,” our aim was to tell the story of how a wave of newcomers— specifically African immigrants—was helping to revitalize the former mill town of Lewiston, Maine. By the time the piece appeared in our March/April issue, though, the national debate over immigration had given our readers another lens through which to view the story. “City of Hope” has received a lot of reactions from across the spectrum; here are two that we respectfully share.

I just read the lengthy feature on African immigrants in Lewiston, Maine, and found the article so carefully slanted as to be very one-sided. The whole immigrant infiltration experience was presented as being a positive experience for all in Lewiston, but the article dwelt on immigrants and their lives and didn’t say much about the other Lewiston residents and how this immigration affected them....

But my chief complaint is that I don’t subscribe to Yankee for social relevance. I get plenty of that everywhere else. Yankee shouldn’t do politics.

Mary Weston

Dover, New Hampshire

My maternal grandmother was born in 1904 in the tiny town of Wales, Maine, just northeast of Lewiston, the eldest of 13 children. There was no high school in her small town, so in order to graduate with a secondary education she had to board during the school year with kind folks in Lewiston, who took her in and treated her as their own....

My grandmother would be so proud of the state of Maine and of her adopted city of Lewiston. In her 95 years on this earth, she always strove to support those in need and to reach out to strangers, to make them feel at home. This, I believe, she learned from her years in Lewiston, as a young girl from the country who was nurtured and strengthened by those in her new

Spring Awakening

After months of life indoors, Our winter-weary lungs and pores

Embrace the sun, the fragrant breeze, And walks beneath the cherry trees.

—D.A.W.

city. Thank you for shedding light on this wonderful pocket of America.

Laurie Daniels Keene Valley, New York

Over the Long Run

Thanks so much for the “Timeless” reminder [“Game Changer,” March/ April] showing the photographs of the first female Boston Marathon runner being attacked by the event’s male codirector. Just looking at the anger in his face helps explain what has fomented today’s political environment, with its toxic hatred toward those who want an equal chance to run, work, and vote.... I am glad the two main characters ultimately became friends—I just hope the same can be true for the rest of our country.

John Wengler Nelson, New Hampshire

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