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Jud's New England Journal

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Monthly audio commentary on travel and life in New England from Jud Hale, Editor in Chief of YANKEE Magazine.


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How I Learned Everything One Christmas Eve
Because it's one of my favorite memories of all time, I can't resist remembering it once again...WHEN I WAS GROWINGup on our farm in Vanceboro, Maine, during the 1930s and '40s, my mother always put on a Nativity play for the townspeople on Christmas Eve using mostly members of the family and various animals from the farm.I first participated at about age 5 or 6. My role the first year was to sing four verses of "We Three Kings" all by myself. A solo. Well, I did it without any problems and rece...

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[ Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:00:00 +0100 ]


How Best to Get Along in a Small New England Town
An important requirement is one many outsiders find particularly difficult to learn or accept. It's called patience. MANY YEARS AGO, a member of the Grange in Brattleboro, Vermont, told me proudly that from the program of recycling hearing-aid batteries, the Grange had raised about $70 for its scholarship program. "You mean you personally raised seventy dollars for the Brattleboro Grange by recycling hearing-aid batteries?" I asked. "Heavens, no," he replied. "I mean all the Grange organizatio...

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[ Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:00:00 +0100 ]


How Best to Get Along in a Small New England Town
An important requirement is one many outsiders find particularly difficult to learn or accept. It's called patience.MANY YEARS AGO,a member of the Grange in Brattleboro, Vermont, told me proudly that from the program of recycling hearing-aid batteries, the Grange had raised about $70 for its scholarship program."You mean you personally raised seventy dollars for the Brattleboro Grange by recycling hearing-aid batteries?" I asked."Heavens, no," he replied. "I mean all the Grange organizations thr...

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[ Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:00:00 +0100 ]


It's Not Easy to Believe in Ghosts
Perhaps the main difficulty is convincing the skeptics ... NOW WITH HALLOWEEN coming along at the end of this month, it's time for ghost stories again. Over the years we've heard dozens of them, all supposedly "true." But, you know, some are not easily explained. For instance, the late Dr. James Huntington, a Boston obstetrician who gave his 18th-century house, Firth Acres, in Hadley, Massachusetts, to the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Foundation (which maintains it today), was absolutely convinced ...

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[ Sun, 01 Oct 2006 04:00:00 +0100 ]


It's Not Easy to Believe in Ghosts
Perhaps the main difficulty is convincing the skeptics ...NOW WITH HALLOWEENcoming along at the end of this month, it's time for ghost stories again. Over the years we've heard dozens of them, all supposedly "true." But, you know,someare not easily explained.For instance, the late Dr. James Huntington, a Boston obstetrician who gave his 18th-century house, Firth Acres, in Hadley, Massachusetts, to the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Foundation (which maintains it today), was absolutelyconvincedof the e...

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[ Sun, 01 Oct 2006 04:00:00 +0100 ]


Going "By the Signs"
Forecasting the weather is full of hazards ... GOING "BY THE SIGNS" has always been a popular method of individual weather forecasting here in New England, other than simply hearing the weather on radio and television. The signs are everywhere, particularly beginning this month and extending through the fall, and they do seem to have some significance in the overall weather scheme of things. But interpreting them is something else. For example, if, in a given fall, a group of wasps build their ...

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[ Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:00:00 +0100 ]


Have You Ever Cut the Devil's Throat?
New Englanders don't necessarily need either adjectives or adverbs to describe something.... In this column last February, I recalled my old friend and barber, Bill Austin, telling me a joke I might use in a forthcoming speech I was to make at the local Women's Club and assuring me that, no, I needn't worry. It was clean. In fact, he said, it was so clean "you could tell it to your grandmother sitting on the john." Well, over breakfast at the Peterborough (New Hampshire) Diner a few weeks ago...

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[ Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:00:00 +0100 ]


Have You Ever Cut the Devil's Throat?
New Englanders don't necessarily need either adjectives or adverbs to describe something....In this column last February, I recalled my old friend and barber, Bill Austin, telling me a joke I might use in a forthcoming speech I was to make at the local Women's Club and assuring me that, no, I needn't worry. It was clean. In fact, he said, it was so clean "you could tell it to your grandmother sitting on the john."Well, over breakfast at the Peterborough (New Hampshire) Diner a few weeks ago, we ...

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[ Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:00:00 +0100 ]


The Birth of a Legend
It requires just the right circumstances, occurring in just the right order, for a legend to be born. Take the legend of Kilroy, for instance... To those of us who were around during World War II, and even as late as the 1970s, the name Kilroy is as familiar as MacArthur, Truman, and Lyndon Johnson. During those years, the words "Kilroy Was Here" were penciled on rest room walls, carved on picnic tables, painted on bridges -- you name it. Everyone knew his name, but no one seemed to know who ...

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[ Sat, 01 Jul 2006 04:00:00 +0100 ]


The Birth of a Legend
It requires just the right circumstances, occurring in just the right order, for a legend to be born. Take the legend of Kilroy, for instance...To those of us who were around during World War II, and even as late as the 1970s, the nameKilroyis as familiar as MacArthur, Truman, and Lyndon Johnson. During those years, the words "Kilroy Was Here" were penciled on rest room walls, carved on picnic tables, painted on bridges -- you name it.Everyone knew his name, but no one seemed to knowwhoKilroy re...

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[ Sat, 01 Jul 2006 04:00:00 +0100 ]


Which of Our Six New England States Is the Most "Yankee"?
That would be Connecticut. Of course. And here's why....OF ALL THEtheories as to the origin of the wordYankee,the one that makes the most sense to me is the so-called Dutch theory. It says that the early English settlers in Connecticut sold cheese to the early Dutch settlers in New York. So the New Yorkers began referring to the English as "John Cheese" which, in Dutch is "Jan Kaas." The wordYankeecould easily and logically have evolved from that. (We can all be grateful they didn't sell pumpern...

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[ Thu, 01 Jun 2006 04:00:00 +0100 ]


Which of Our Six New England States Is the Most "Yankee"?
That would be Connecticut. Of course. And here's why.... OF ALL THE theories as to the origin of the word Yankee, the one that makes the most sense to me is the so-called Dutch theory. It says that the early English settlers in Connecticut sold cheese to the early Dutch settlers in New York. So the New Yorkers began referring to the English as "John Cheese" which, in Dutch is "Jan Kaas." The word Yankee could easily and logically have evolved from that. (We can all be grateful they didn't sell ...

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[ Thu, 01 Jun 2006 04:00:00 +0100 ]


The Very Best Way to Cook a Lobster
You may not cook lobsters this way. But if that's the case, then yours are simply not quite as good. THE WEEKEND BEFORE Memorial Day is when a lot of wonderful commercial enterprises along the Maine coast open up for the summer tourist season. Bertha Nunan's Lobster Hut, in the tiny fishing village of Cape Porpoise (just up from Kennebunkport), is a case in point. Multiple generations of Nunans have been hauling lobster traps off Cape Porpoise for well over 70 years, but, toward the end of this...

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[ Mon, 01 May 2006 04:00:00 +0100 ]


The Very Best Way to Cook a Lobster
You may not cook lobsters this way. But if that's the case, then yours are simply not quite as good. THE WEEKEND BEFORE Memorial Day is when a lot of wonderful commercial enterprises along the Maine coast open up for the summer tourist season. Bertha Nunan's Lobster Hut, in the tiny fishing village of Cape Porpoise (just up from Kennebunkport), is a case in point. Multiple generations of Nunans have been hauling lobster traps off Cape Porpoise for well over 70 years, but, toward the end of this...

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[ Mon, 01 May 2006 04:00:00 +0100 ]


Humpty Dumpty? Sure. Moby Dick? Never!
New Englanders can accept a certain amount of fantasy and artistic license in literature. But not always... NEW ENGLAND HAS often claimed the poems, songs, and ditties known as the Mother Goose nursery rhymes even though, I'll have to concede, their origin was most assuredly in England during the 1600s. But at least there is a New England connection. That connection stems back to an Elizabeth Foster of Charlestown, Massachusetts, who married one Isaac Goose of Boston. As the legend goes, she re...

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[ Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:00:00 +0100 ]


Humpty Dumpty? Sure. Moby Dick? Never!
New Englanders can accept a certain amount of fantasy and artistic license in literature. But not always... NEW ENGLAND HAS often claimed the poems, songs, and ditties known as the Mother Goose nursery rhymes even though, I'll have to concede, their origin was most assuredly in England during the 1600s. But at least there is a New England connection. That connection stems back to an Elizabeth Foster of Charlestown, Massachusetts, who married one Isaac Goose of Boston. As the legend goes, she re...

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[ Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:00:00 +0100 ]


The Three Most-Often-Asked Questions
1. Were "spring dance floors" built to spring? 2. Where, exactly, does "down east" begin? 3. Why were bridges covered? WELL, LET'S BEGIN with the term "down east." We all know it's a nautical way of referring to sailing with the wind or down wind when traveling northeast off the Maine coast. Where down east begins, however, is more controversial. A few people, mostly summer people, equate down east with the entire coast of Maine. In other words, they maintain that it begins the second you ...

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[ Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:00:00 +0100 ]


The Three Most-Often-Asked Questions
1. Were "spring dance floors" built to spring? 2. Where, exactly, does "down east" begin? 3. Why were bridges covered? WELL, LET'S BEGIN with the term "down east." We all know it's a nautical way of referring to sailing with the wind or down wind when traveling northeast off the Maine coast. Where down east begins, however, is more controversial. A few people, mostly summer people, equate down east with the entire coast of Maine. In other words, they maintain that it begins the second you ...

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[ Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:00:00 +0100 ]


Can You Imagine Anything Cleaner Than a Hound's Tooth?
... or Even a Pig's Whistle? EVERY REGION HAS certain words that reflect its history, its geography -- and its personality. For instance, Southerners seem to me to be immediately open and friendly, even with total strangers. "Y'all come!" they'll say, which would appear to include mankind. We New Englanders are more reserved about extending invitations, or anything else, and our language reflects it. In fact, as far as I can ascertain, New England does not possess any word or expression that is...

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[ Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:00:00 +0100 ]


Can You Imagine Anything Cleaner Than a Hound's Tooth?
... or Even a Pig's Whistle? EVERY REGION HAS certain words that reflect its history, its geography -- and its personality. For instance, Southerners seem to me to be immediately open and friendly, even with total strangers. "Y'all come!" they'll say, which would appear to include mankind. We New Englanders are more reserved about extending invitations, or anything else, and our language reflects it. In fact, as far as I can ascertain, New England does not possess any word or expression that is...

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[ Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:00:00 +0100 ]


So How Slow Is Molasses in January?
A bizarre tragedy in Boston's North End once answered that age-old question for all time. IT WAS UNSEASONABLY warm in Boston on Wednesday, January 15, 1919. Forty-three degrees above zero, to be exact. But during endless court hearings carried on later, it was determined that temperature played no role in what occurred that day in the low-lying section of Commercial Street, between Copps Hill and North End Park. That's where a 58-foot tank filled with no less than 2.5 million gallons of molasse...

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[ Sun, 01 Jan 2006 05:00:00 +0100 ]


So How Slow Is Molasses in January?
A bizarre tragedy in Boston's North End once answered that age-old question for all time. IT WAS UNSEASONABLY warm in Boston on Wednesday, January 15, 1919. Forty-three degrees above zero, to be exact. But during endless court hearings carried on later, it was determined that temperature played no role in what occurred that day in the low-lying section of Commercial Street, between Copps Hill and North End Park. That's where a 58-foot tank filled with no less than 2.5 million gallons of molasse...

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[ Sun, 01 Jan 2006 05:00:00 +0100 ]


Maybe New Englanders Weren't So Stuffy After All
Some romantic customs were even, well, sort of shocking ... NEW ENGLANDERS WERE always so stuffy about love, sex, and romance, how come it was commonly approved practice for young couples to go to bed together before they were married? And also, more surprisingly, to get married in the nude? Both are true. Young New England unmarried boys and girls would indeed go to bed together as part of the courting routine -- but with their clothes on. It was called bundling. When I was a teenager, I knew...

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[ Thu, 01 Dec 2005 05:00:00 +0100 ]


Maybe New Englanders Weren't So Stuffy After All
Some romantic customs were even, well, sort of shocking ...NEWENGLANDERS WEREalways so stuffy about love, sex, and romance, how come it was commonly approved practice for young couples to go to bed together before they were married? And also, more surprisingly, to get married in the nude? Both are true. Young New England unmarried boys and girlswouldindeed go to bed together as part of the courting routine -- but with their clothes on. It was called bundling. When I was a teenager, I knew about ...

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[ Thu, 01 Dec 2005 05:00:00 +0100 ]


It's Fun to Believe in Ghosts
But not on blind faith. New Englanders have to actually see or hear them ... NEW ENGLANDERS WANT to believe in ghosts -- and we have so many of them -- but we're often too practical and hardheaded to believe in anything we haven't seen or heard. There's the old story, for example, of the New Hampshire farmer who was cornered by a scholar researching New England religious history. The visitor asked him whether he believed in baptism by immersion in water. "Yep," replied the farmer. "I seed it ...

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[ Tue, 01 Nov 2005 05:00:00 +0100 ]


It's Fun to Believe in Ghosts
But not on blind faith. New Englanders have to actually see or hear them ...NEWENGLANDERSWANTto believe in ghosts -- and we have so many of them -- but we're often too practical and hardheaded to believe in anything we haven't seen or heard. There's the old story, for example, of the New Hampshire farmer who was cornered by a scholar researching New England religious history. The visitor asked him whether he believed in baptism by immersion in water."Yep,"replied the farmer."I seed it done."Well...

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[ Tue, 01 Nov 2005 05:00:00 +0100 ]


So Who Was this "Molly Stark" Woman?
For reasons never fully explained by anyone, Molly Stark is really big in New England today ... THERE SEEM TO be certain New England legends that evolve out of no logical sequence of events at all. Merely a little something someone said can catch our imagination, be repeated and perhaps somewhat embellished, and eventually ... voila! It takes its place among the New England legends we love. There are dozens of examples I could cite, but perhaps the most puzzling is the legend of Molly Stark. ...

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[ Sat, 01 Oct 2005 04:00:00 +0100 ]


So Who Was this"Molly Stark"Woman?
For reasons never fully explained by anyone, Molly Stark is really big in New England today ...THERE SEEM TObe certain New England legends that evolve out of no logical sequence of events at all. Merely a little something someonesaidcan catch our imagination, be repeated and perhaps somewhat embellished, and eventually ... voila! It takes its place among the New England legends we love.There are dozens of examples I could cite, but perhaps the most puzzling is the legend of Molly Stark. Puzzling...

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[ Sat, 01 Oct 2005 04:00:00 +0100 ]


The Best of New England -- Plus a "Worst"
Some would probably describe my list as downright odd ... IF I WERE TO compile a list of what I consider to be New England's "bests," I wouldn't include many restaurants, resorts, specialty boutiques, museums, country fairs, and the like. Those things change too quickly and, besides, the current September issue of YANKEE Magazine, celebrating its 70th anniversary in grand style, is devoted to that sort of current, useful, practical stuff. My personal list would be made up of mostly little bit...

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[ Thu, 01 Sep 2005 04:00:00 +0100 ]


The Best of New England -- Plus a"Worst"
Some would probably describe my list as downright odd ...IF I WERE TOcompile a list of what I consider to be New England's"bests,"I wouldn't include many restaurants, resorts, specialty boutiques, museums, country fairs, and the like. Those things change too quickly and, besides, the current September issue of YANKEE Magazine, celebrating its 70th anniversary in grand style, is devoted to that sort of current, useful, practical stuff.My personal list would be made up of mostly little bits and pi...

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[ Thu, 01 Sep 2005 04:00:00 +0100 ]

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