Weekends with Yankee - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
The Coast
The beach town of Ogunquit, Maine; a clambake near Acadia National Park; traditional boatbuilding in Newport, R.I.
The Wild
The Northeast's highest peak; Atlantic bay scallop; Maine's Moosehead Lake.
Buried Treasure
Photographer Joel Woods captures life aboard a lobster boat; oysters in New Hampshire with chef Jeremy Sewall; the world's only authenticated pirate ship.
Traditions
A cruise on the J. & E. Riggin schooner along the Maine coast; head of the Charles rowing event in Boston; the Shelburne Museum in Vermont.
Lost and Found
An artist makes glass orbs on Block Island, off the coast of Rhode Island; an orchard of heirloom apples in Dummerston, Vt.; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
Icons of New England
The Elms in Newport, R.I.; Glass House in New Canaan, Conn.; Olneyville New York System, a Providence, R.I., restaurant.
Land and Water
WaterFire festival in Providence, R.I.; Squam Lake in New Hampshire; Westport Rivers Winery in Massachusetts.
Yankee Ingenuity
Shelburne Farms includes 1,400 acres of farmland and historic buildings on Lake Champlain; Mount Washington Cog Railway; Strawbery Banke museum along the Piscataqua River in Portsmouth, N.H.
The Islands
Historic gingerbread cottages on Martha's Vineyard in Oak Bluffs, Mass.; photographer Jerry Monkman's favorite spots in Maine's Acadia National Park; shiitake mushrooms.
Back to the Land
The Well at Jordan's Farm; Connecticut's Grace Farms; fly-fishing with artist and writer James Prosek.
Quintessential Village
Stockbridge, Mass., home of the Norman Rockwell Museum, is toured. Also: Woodstock, Vt., home to the ultimate general store, Gillingham & Sons; and Biddeford, Maine, home to the Palace Diner.
Fall Foliage
An autumn tour of New England features New Hampshire's famed Kancamagus Highway, one of the region's most scenic drives; and Kent, Conn., which Yankee magazine calls the region's best foliage town. Also: Vermont cheesemaker Allison Hooper.
Winter
The Season 1 finale spotlights New England during winter. Included: a horse-drawn sleigh in Jackson, N.H.; and cross-country skiing on a pristine trail in northern New England. Also: a culinary tour of Boston with chef Barbara Lynch.
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