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The Arts

Season 7 Episode 711 | 26m 46s

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.

Aired: 03/31/23
Distributed nationally by American Public Television
Extras
Visit Pickering House Inn, watch winter skiing in Maine and see Nantucket floral designs.
Visit Glazy Susan doughnuts, Mount Monadnock and Wozz! Kitchen Creations.
Explore Rockland, Maine, meet a glass artist and discover romantic home products.
See glamping in Maine, fishing in Connecticut and tour Duparquet Copper Cookware.
See Nubble Light in Maine, Boston’s famed North End and Vermont’s Farmhouse Pottery.
Visit Tanglewood, meet shopkeepers in Maine, surf cast on Cape Cod and more.
Bangs Island Mussels, Arethusa Farm and a visit to the Trapp Family Lodge.
Newport, Rhode Island and a classic New England general store.
A look at Nubble Light in Maine. Boston’s famed North End. Vermont’s Farmhouse Pottery.
Glamping in Maine. Fishing in Mystic, Connecticut. A tour of Duparquet Copper Cookware.
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