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Weekends with Yankee
Outdoor Adventures
Season 8
Episode 801
Host Richard Wiese visits the East Coast’s largest horse ranch, Pond Hill Ranch, in Poultney, VT, to learn about its rodeos and lassoing. In Massachusetts, co-host Amy Traverso heads to Cape Cod in a vintage Land Cruiser to explore the dunes of Sandy Neck Beach and cooks chowder at the Pelham House Resort in Dennis. Last, we head to Burlington, Vermont, to talk with plein-air painter Peter Fried.
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Visit New Hampshire’s historic Omni Mount Washington Resort and go dory-rowing in Maine.

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Stay aboard a Maine houseboat, visit the Alna Store & meet Connecticut forager/chef Chrissy Tracey.

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Join us on a Massachusetts fried-clam tour & visit Cape Cod’s Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

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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.