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Yankee Magazine redefines New England
By adamg on Fri, 01/05/2007 - 12:00pm
Worried that a bigger Yankee Magazine is losing touch with its roots? The Herald reports that the snowy scene on the cover of the new mutant-sized mag is actually from Flagstaff, Arizona (gives new meaning to the term "western New England"). A Yankee editor acknowledged to the Herald that they knew the photo had no connection whatsoever with any place east of the Taconics:
"There was concern that the image was from Arizona," Allen said. "But we felt the sense of wonder was universal."
So "sense of wonder" is the new New England. I can't wait for the first spread on shopping in Manhattan.
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alas for Yankee; alas for New England
I used to drive through Dublin a lot during frequent trips between Peterborough and Keene. The Yankee editorial offices are just where you'd picture them to be: in two barn-red wooden buildings right in the town center, right by the church, town hall and general store. They also had a chalkboard outside listing town events and stuff. It always gave me a warm glow inside to drive past, because if Yankee was being published in such an environment, all was well with the world.
Maybe the use of stock imagery from other places could be excused by other magazines, but you'd think they could have found maybe one or two snowy pictures of New England. Sure, it's a stretch, but I'm sure a few are out there somewhere.