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On a 7-acre hillside with Mt. Monadnock in view, Jen Williams and her husband, Steve Gougeon, cultivate more than 60 apple varieties. He’s a cabinetmaker with home-brewing expertise. She’s a biology teacher with a PhD in ecology. That knowledge—of how “everything is so connected”—fueled their desire, she says, to earn organic certification. You can pick apples or purchase unpasteurized cider, but it’s the organic hard ciders, made by only a handful of cideries nationwide, that are putting this tiny orchard on the map. They’re crafted in small batches inside a solar-powered cider mill built in 2014, when it was time, says Williams, for their decade-old endeavor to graduate from “out of control hobby” to business.

In Yankee territory, apple cider is fall in fluid form! Any New Englander can indulge in the region’s best, whether it’s cider, beaches, artists, shopping, people, or … well, Yankee Magazine delivers the best of all things New England in every issue. **************

Al in New Hampshire reports that he thought the chimney flashing on his old home was leaking, but it turned out to be animal urine from the critters snuggling up to the nice warm chimney in the attic. Insulation, you ask? Nope, not even modern sheathing. Also, he says, when you turn off the medicine cabinet’s fluorescent light, so goes the Touch & Glow lamp on the nightstand. And the mystery double wall-switch in the bedroom? One works, the other doesn’t. “It’s probably annoying the person in a parallel universe.”

If that isn’t a quintessential “old house proud” New England story, what is? Not to mention the Yankee sense of humor. This is exactly what you get in every issue of Yankee Magazine! [superofie_sllp header=’Reading Yankee is like a New England vacation.’ text=”Subscribe today and take a trip every month.” above_form=”” button_text=’YES, I want to subscribe to “Yankee Magazine”!’ button_mobile=’Continue’ use_photo=”true” ]

When it comes to old tools, Mark Woodward knows a thing or two. Equipped with a trailer, storage space, and a talent for salvage, Mark has confronted many a dark garage, cobwebby barn and freighted attic, liberating furniture, antiques and tools from years of disuse. Mark owns a carriage barn in Johnson, Vermont, that can store 20 trailers’ worth of stuff, and whenever there’s no more room, he mounts an extravaganza infamously known as Mark’s Yard Sale. His friend, Julia Shipley, says most of what she uses to raise animals and grow food she has plucked off Mark’s tables of recovered and rescued wares: stepladder, sawhorses, dustpan, broom, axe, tin snips —all scored from this old-school sort of Home Depot. Thus what had stopped and stilled and hung upon a stable nail or leaned in a closet or cupboard or was forgotten in someone’s barn stall—all of this practical handy stuff—has more years to be used, another life.

“Between the former owner who gripped it last,” writes Julia, poetically, in Yankee, “and I who grasp it now, we almost shake hands across a century of digging down, cutting apart, leveling out, carrying on, getting things done, until the snows come.” How will Yankee Magazine touch you and your life? [superofie_sllp header=’Reading Yankee is like a New England vacation.’ text=”Subscribe today and take a trip every month.” above_form=”” button_text=’YES, I want to subscribe to “Yankee Magazine”!’ button_mobile=’Continue’ use_photo=”true” ]