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Weekends with Yankee
The Arts
Season 7
Episode 711
On this episode of Weekends with Yankee, Amy Traverso heads out to the Berkshires for the famous Tanglewood music festival. Richard Wiese visits the MacDowell Colony, an artists’ colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, that has hosted such legends as composers Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein and Our Town playwright Thornton Wilder.
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Enjoy a clambake at Newport’s Castle Hill Inn & autumn trail riding and fly fishing in Vermont.
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Come along for a visit to Golden Dog Farm in Vermont & experience a New Hampshire lavender harvest.
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Join us for Massachusetts’s premier Revolutionary War reenactment & for Maine’s Great Schooner Race.
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Hitting the slopes in Vermont and “ice cut” paintings and murals in New Hampshire.
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Exploring the scene and artwork of Brookline, MA, and climbing in the White Mountains.
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Visit Matunuck Oyster Farm, Thompson House Eatery and Wiggly Bridge Distillery.
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Rock climbing in New Hampshire and Martha’s Vineyard preservation projects.
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A visit to Boston’s Chinatown and exploring the Ocean State - Rhode Island.
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New Bedford, MA; Littleton, NH and a visit to Sudbury.
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We explore the up-and-coming food scene of Kennebunkport, ME and more!
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Ride on Icelandic horses and explore the gardens at a farm-to-table restaurant.
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Newport, RI, oyster farm and raw bar OystHERS, treehouse resort Seguin and Bethel, ME.