Justin Shatwell

Justin Shatwell, associate editor of Yankee Magazine:

Justin was raised in Louisiana and moved to New England for graduate school. He brings his strong background in history and a passion for preserving New England's historic treasures to Yankee Magazine. In addition to writing feature articles and working on the magazine's up-front "First Light" section, he produces online videos for YankeeMagazine.com.

Articles by Justin Shatwell

Travel → Vermont: The Green Mountain State →

Shelburne Carousel: Local Treasure

Travel → New Hampshire: The Granite State →

Portsmouth, NH: Music Hall

Travel → Massachusetts: The Bay State →

Audio Tour: Memorial Hall Museum, Deerfield, MA

SeeNewEngland.com → Yankee Articles →

'Sunflowers for Wishes'

Buy a bunch, July 23 - 31, 2011, Griswold, CT

Make-A-Wish Contacts in New England

Boston: Black Heritage Trail

New Bedford Whaling Museum

Whale skeletons tell a story

Stockbridge, MA: Norman Rockwell Museum

Rockwell's studio restored for museum's 40th anniversary

Laconia, NH: Funspot Arcade

Arcade games galore at Weirs Beach

Local Treasure: Open Books, Open Minds

At the Eric Carle Museum, children enter a world that understands important things.

Local Treasure: John Carter Brown Library

Providence's John Carter Brown Library tells America's story.

Only in New England: Fetchstix Dog Toys

In Vermont, money does grow on trees.

Local Treasure: Dinosaur Tracks

The largest collection of dinosaur tracks in the world resides in an unexpected place.

Local Treasure: Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site

At New Hampshire's Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, visitors see the famed sculptor's works where they were conceived.

Here In New England: Stephen Huneck

Local Treasure: John Brown House Museum

Even the most beautiful sites may teach uncomfortable truths.

Only in New England: The Yarn Bombers

When graffiti and knitting merge, a city warms up.

SeeNewEngland.com → Folder of Recipes →

Walden Pond

Issues → January/February 2012 →

Only in New England: The Yarn Bombers

When graffiti and knitting merge, a city warms up.

Local Treasure: John Brown House Museum

Even the most beautiful sites may teach uncomfortable truths.

10. Helmet Hair Competition

Issues → November/December 2011 →

Kringle and Yankee Candle: Scented-Candle Showdown

Showdown Lighting up in the Pioneer Valley.

Local Treasure: The Old Ship Meeting House

History and religion wrap together in Hingham's Old Ship Meeting House.

Issues → September/October 2011 →

Only in New England: The Mad Scientists' Ball

Sometimes the pursuit of knowledge takes you to some very strange places.

Issues → July/August 2011 →

Here In New England: Stephen Huneck

Only in New England: International Cryptozoology Museum

Issues → May/June 2011 →

Local Treasure: Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site

At New Hampshire's Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, visitors see the famed sculptor's works where they were conceived.

Issues → March/April 2011 →

Only in New England: Traveler Food and Books

Traveler Food and Books is the anti-fast-food restaurant.

Local Treasure: Dinosaur Tracks

The largest collection of dinosaur tracks in the world resides in an unexpected place.

The Memory Keeper: Child Labor Photos

All but lost to the ages were the lives of child laborers in Winchendon, Massachusetts, photographed a century ago by Lewis Hine. Then Joe Manning went looking for "the most beautiful girl in American history."

Issues → January/February 2011 →

Local Treasure: John Carter Brown Library

Providence's John Carter Brown Library tells America's story.

Only in New England: Fetchstix Dog Toys

In Vermont, money does grow on trees.

SLIDE SHOW: JCB Library Treasures

Nathan Clifford School

Portland, Maine

Issues → November/December 2010 →

Here in New England: Where the Bells Ring On

"Belltown"--was once the cradle of bellmakers. Today one company refuses to go silent.

Only in New England

Parlez-Vous Berlin?

Local Treasure: The Creche at Regina Laudis

The timeless story of a birth in Bethlehem ...

Issues → September/October 2010 →

Only in New England: The Stupidest Thing We Ever Said

Local Treasure: Club Passim

The heart of New England's folk music continues to beat in a tiny Cambridge basement.

Issues → July/August 2010 →

Only in New England: The Showman

Two hundred years after his birth, P. T. Barnum still draws a crowd.

Local Treasure: Open Books, Open Minds

At the Eric Carle Museum, children enter a world that understands important things.

The Marginal Way in Ogunquit, Maine

Issues → May/June 2010 →

Laconia, NH: Funspot Arcade

Arcade games galore at Weirs Beach

Issues → March/April 2010 →

Old Man of the Mountain fell on May 3, 2003. What now?

Almost seven years since its collapse

Clinton, MA: Russian Icon Museum

Largest collection of Russian icons in North America

Land Preservation in Massachusetts

Trustees of Reservations preserve properties for the public

Issues → January/February 2010 →

Local Treasure: Shantok Ware Pot

Connecticut's Mashantucket Pequot Museum

Portsmouth, NH: The RPM Challenge

Don't be left out of the February music marathon

Portland, ME: Kotzschmar Organ

Merrill Auditorium's instrument belongs to the community

Issues → November/December 2009 →

New England Meetinghouses: Sense of Place

Paul Wainwright's photographs preserve history

Holyoke, MA: Dead Frog Circus

Wistariahurst Museum's creepy curiosity

Music Review: Eilen Jewell

Homesickness, roots, and a touch of exhaustion

Local Treasure: Touro Synagogue

Newport, RI, temple is monument to history and tolerance

Issues → September/October 2009 →

Walden Pond

Music Review: Emilia Dahlin

Acoustic guitar from Maine

Music Review: Anais Mitchell

Vermont musician writes folk opera based on Greek myth

Lowell, MA: New England Quilt Museum

Bring quilts in for documentation and family history

When You Go -- Ziplines

Issues → July/August 2009 →

Boston Lighthouse Keeper Sally Snowman

On Little Brewster Island in Boston Harbor

Stockbridge, MA: Norman Rockwell Museum

Rockwell's studio restored for museum's 40th anniversary

Music Review: Avi and Celia

Guitar and washboard for folk and blues sound

Issues → May/June 2009 →

Providence, RI, Weekend

Last of the Leominster Flamingos

Pink plastic flamingo is a New England original

New Bedford Whaling Museum

Whale skeletons tell a story

Portsmouth, NH: Poetry

Issues → March/April 2009 →

Music Review: Miss Tess

Reliving the golden age of jazz

Boston: Gardner Museum Nasturtiums

Spring flowers at Fenway Court

Issues → January/February 2009 →

Music Review: Erica Wheeler

Folk music with a message to conserve the land

Jericho Village, VT: 'Snowflake' Bentley

This Vermonter knows snow

Issues → November/December 2008 →

Nathan Clifford School

Portland, Maine

Plymouth, MA: Plimoth Plantation

Interpeters provide historical authenticity

Library Naming Opportunity

Make a million-dollar endowment

Music Review: 'Hungrytown'

Vermonters Rebecca Hall and Ken Anderson

North Adams, MA: Sol LeWitt at MASS MoCA

Modern-art giant's largest exhibit on display for 25 years

Issues → July/August 2008 →

Eben Horton, Glassblower, Wakefield, Rhode Island

Tuller Family, Ice Cream Makers, West Simsbury, Connecticut

'Sunflowers for Wishes'

Buy a bunch, July 23 - 31, 2011, Griswold, CT

Make-A-Wish Contacts in New England

Walden Pond

Music Review: Emilia Dahlin

Acoustic guitar from Maine

Local Treasure: Peabody Essex Museum

'Wedded Bliss' displays dresses and accessories

Issues → May/June 2008 →

Music Review

Eli "Paperboy" Reed & the True Loves

Shelburne Carousel: Local Treasure

The Kaddish Project by Lawrence Siegel

Holocaust song cycle opens world tour in New Hampshire

Boston: Black Heritage Trail

Audio Tour: Memorial Hall Museum, Deerfield, MA

Issues → March/April 2008 →

VIDEO: Holyoke, MA, Renovation Project

In Review: Music

Winterpills

Life and Death of the Skinner Coffee House

Historic preservation: what gets saved?

The Grumman-St. John House

Norwalk, Connecticut

Nathan Clifford School

Portland, Maine

University of Massachusetts Campus

Amherst, Massachusetts

Robert Frost Farm

Derry, New Hampshire

St. Ann's Church, Woonsocket

Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Lake Champlain Bridge

Chimney Point, Vermont

Family Day-Trip: Book Barn, Niantic, CT

Is this the most unusual bookstore in the land?

Portsmouth, NH: Music Hall

Local Treasure: Shantok Ware Pot

Connecticut's Mashantucket Pequot Museum

When You Go

Nathan Clifford School

Portland, Maine

Issues → November/December 2007 →

Deerfield, MA: Spinning Wheel Chair

Historic Deerfield has a local treasure of the Colonial Revival

Only in New England: The Yarn Bombers

When graffiti and knitting merge, a city warms up.

Local Treasure: John Brown House Museum

Even the most beautiful sites may teach uncomfortable truths.

Issues → May/June 2007 →

Deerfield, MA: Spinning Wheel Chair

Historic Deerfield has a local treasure of the Colonial Revival

Home & Garden → Garden →

Family Day-Trip: Book Barn, Niantic, CT

Is this the most unusual bookstore in the land?

Home & Garden → Home →

Nathan Clifford School

Portland, Maine

Blogs → Behind the Scenes at Yankee Magazine →

Perusing the Yankee Index

Life, Death, and Magazines at the CRMA Conference

My Worst Hike Ever

Blogs → New England Music Reviews →

Kevin Kastning and Sandor Szabo: Resonance

Shepherdess: Self Titled

Bella Voce: Now Let Us Sing

Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem: Big Old Life

Anais Mitchell: The Brightness

Eilen Jewell: Heartache Boulevard

Patty Larkin: Watch the Sky

Jon Shain: Army Jacket Winter

Cinnamon Girl

Tribute Album Battles Breast Cancer

Mercuryhat: Blinding Blues, Stinging Bees

Spouse: Relocation Tactics

Lissa Schneckenburger: Song

Dylan in the Movies: Feel the Pull

Kris Delmhorst: Shotgun Singer

Jennifer Hruska: The Underground Forest

Bird Mancini: Funny Day

Richard Stoltzman: Phoenix in Flight

Emilia Dahlin: Rattle Them Bones

Eilen Jewell: Sea of Tears