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60-491: In the middle of the ride, guests experience a show where uneducated train robbers Alphie and Ralphie Bolin try their best to rob the train, but guests are saved just in time by the conductor, who was tricked into searching for " Yankees ". During the Old Time Christmas festival at the park, the train is decked-out in lights and becomes the "Frisco Sing-Along Steam Train". The robbery act is replaced by grandpa telling

120-593: A Yankee is a Vermonter. And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast. Major League Baseball's New York Yankees acquired the name from journalists after the team moved from Baltimore in 1903, though they were officially known as the Highlanders until 1913. The regional Yankees–Red Sox rivalry can make the utterance of the term "Yankee" unwelcome to some fans in New England, especially to

180-564: A bloody battle, and the remaining Yankoo Indians transferred their name to the victors—who were "agreeable to the Indian custom". Sonneck notes that multiple American writers since 1775 had repeated this story as if it were fact, despite what he perceived to be holes in it. It had never been the tradition of any Indian tribe to transfer their name to other peoples, according to Sonneck, nor had any settlers ever adopted an Indian name to describe themselves. Sonneck concludes by pointing out that there

240-473: A crewman from North Carolina nicknamed him with that epithet. The term Yankee can have many different meanings within the United States that are contextually and geographically dependent. Traditionally, Yankee was most often used to refer to a New Englander descended from the settlers of the region, thus often suggesting Puritanism and thrifty values. By the mid-20th century, some speakers applied

300-607: A second derailment occurred behind the Fireman's Landing area of the park causing the rear two cars to detach from the other cars and engine #14. One passenger was reported to possibly have a minor injury, but declined medical assistance. The railroad reopened on May 28, 2023 after an investigation. 36°40′14″N 93°20′13″W  /  36.67056°N 93.33694°W  / 36.67056; -93.33694 Yankee The term Yankee and its contracted form Yank have several interrelated meanings, all referring to people from

360-483: A strong moral obligation to define and enforce standards of community and personal behavior…. This pietistic worldview was substantially shared by British, Scandinavian, Swiss, English-Canadian and Dutch Reformed immigrants, as well as by German Protestants and many of the Forty-Eighters . Yankees dominated New England, much of upstate New York, and much of the upper Midwest, and were the strongest supporters of

420-469: A train led by engine #504 derailed causing three of the four cars and the locomotive's tender to tip over on their right side. Six guests and one crew member were injured. Following the derailment, the railroad was closed for the remainder of the 2022 season pending an investigation by both Silver Dollar City and Missouri state investigators. The railroad later had a soft reopening on March 24, 2023 and an official reopening on March 29, 2023. On May 25, 2023,

480-573: Is an “old” and “new” set of passenger cars, with the old ones being built in the 1970s, and the new ones being built from 2011 to 2016. The current roster goes as follows: 1962 According to the Herschends in "Jack and Pete Tell it All", the train was purchased in the winter of 1962. It was originally coal-fired, but set the surrounding forestry on fire, so it was converted to oil. The Frisco Silver Dollar Line opened on Sunday, May 27, 1962. The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway , also commonly known as

540-629: Is disappearing even there. Mark Twain's 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court popularized the word as a nickname for residents of Connecticut, and Connecticut Air National Guard unit 103d Airlift Wing is nicknamed "The Flying Yankees." The shortened form Yank is used as a derogatory, pejorative, playful, or colloquial term for Americans in Britain, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Ireland, and New Zealand. The full Yankee may be considered mildly derogatory, depending on

600-469: Is one of the last American regions to resist the horse–hoarse merger . This continued resistance was verified by some speakers in a 2006 study of Bangor and Portland, Maine, yet contradicted by a 2013 study that reported the merger as embraced by Portland speakers "of all ages". The horse–hoarse separation means that words like war and wore may sound different: war /wɒ/ rhyming with law /lɒ/ , and wore /ˈwoʊə/ rhyming with boa /ˈboʊə/ . Unlike

660-450: Is otherwise common throughout North America. Also, for speakers born before 1950, the words half and pass (and, before World War II, also ask and can't ) are pronounced with a " broad a ," like in spa : [haf] and [pʰas] . Boston, Massachusetts is the birthplace and most famous site of Eastern New England English. Historically, a Northeastern type of New England English spread from metropolitan Boston into metropolitan Worcester ,

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720-618: Is presumed to have no where else on the Globe a permanent local habitation, however ubiquitous he may be in his travels and pursuits. Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas pointed out as late as 1966, "The very word 'Yankee' still wakens in Southern minds historical memories of defeat and humiliation, of the burning of Atlanta and Sherman's March to the Sea , or of an ancestral farmhouse burned by Quantrill's Raiders ". Ambrose Bierce defines

780-746: Is sometimes more cultural than geographical, emphasizing the Calvinist Puritan Christian beliefs and traditions of the Congregationalists who brought their culture when they settled outside New England. The speech dialect of Eastern New England English is called "Yankee" or "Yankee dialect". Most linguists look to Dutch language sources, noting the extensive interaction between the Dutch colonists in New Netherland (parts of New York, New Jersey, and Delaware) and

840-413: Is sometimes used as a pejorative reference to Americans. In Finland, the word jenkki is sometimes used to refer to any American citizen, and Jenkkilä refers to the United States itself. It is not considered offensive or anti-American, but rather a colloquial expression. In Sweden, the word jänkare is a derivative of Yankee that is used to refer to both American citizens and classic American cars from

900-543: The PALM– LOT–THOUGHT vowel distinctions , the marry–merry distinction , or both. Eastern New England (excluding Rhode Island) is also nationally recognized for its highly front PALM/START vowel. The most well-known subsets include Boston accents , Maine accents , and a cultivated or elite accent , sometimes known as a " Boston Brahmin accent" within Boston, that was associated wealthy New England families in

960-543: The Korean War periods, Korean black markets that sold smuggled American goods from military bases were called "yankee markets" ( Korean :  양키시장 ). The term "yankee" is now generally viewed as an anti-American slur in South Korea , and is often used in the exclamation "Yankee go home!" ( 『양키 고 홈!』 ). Linguistic Eastern New England English Eastern New England English , historically known as

1020-690: The Southern United States , Yankee is a derisive term which refers to all Northerners, and during the American Civil War it was applied by Confederates to soldiers of the Union army in general. Elsewhere in the United States, it largely refers to people from the Northeastern states , but especially those with New England cultural ties, such as descendants of colonial New England settlers, wherever they live. Its sense

1080-455: The Yankee dialect since at least the 19th century, is the traditional regional dialect of Maine , New Hampshire , and the eastern half of Massachusetts . Features of this variety once spanned an even larger dialect area of New England , for example, including the eastern halves of Vermont and Connecticut for those born as late as the early twentieth century. Studies vary as to whether

1140-550: The battles of Lexington and Concord . Today, "Yankee Doodle" is the official state song of Connecticut. An early use of the term outside the United States was in the creation of Sam Slick the "Yankee Clockmaker" in a newspaper column in Halifax , Nova Scotia , in 1835. The character was a plain-speaking American who becomes an example for Nova Scotians to follow in his industry and practicality; his uncouth manners and vanity were qualities that his creator detested. The character

1200-641: The 1950s that are popular in rural Sweden. In the late 19th century, the Japanese were called "the Yankees of the East" in praise of their industriousness and drive to modernization. In Japan, the term yankī ( ヤンキー ) has been used since the late 1970s to refer to a type of delinquent youth associated with motorcycle gangs and frequently sporting dyed blond hair. Around the American occupation of Korea and

1260-459: The Boston accent, this traditional Maine accent may be non-rhotic entirely: even in the pronunciation of /ɜr/ as [ɜ] . The traditional English-language accent of Southeastern New England, popularly known as a Rhode Island accent, is spoken in Rhode Island and the western half of Bristol County, Massachusetts . In addition to all the features mentioned under the phonology section above,

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1320-515: The Dutch pronunciation of J being the same as the English Y . Quinion and Hanks posit that it was "used as a nickname for a Dutch-speaking American in colonial times" and could have grown to include non-Dutch colonists, as well. The Oxford English Dictionary calls this theory "perhaps the most plausible". Alternatively, the Dutch given names Jan ( Dutch: [jɑn] ) and Kees ( Dutch: [keːs] ) have long been common, and

1380-595: The English colonists in New England ( Massachusetts , Rhode Island , and Connecticut ). The exact application, however, is uncertain; some scholars suggest that it was a term used in derision of the Dutch colonists, others that it was derisive of the English colonists. Michael Quinion and Patrick Hanks argue that the term comes from the Dutch Janneke , a diminutive form of the given name Jan which would be Anglicized by New Englanders as "Yankee" due to

1440-716: The Federal Government was controlled by bigoted Yankees and Irish who banded together against the Italian immigrant. The one anomaly of this era was the election of Yankee Republican Leverett Saltonstall as governor in 1938, and even then Saltonstall jokingly attributed his high vote totals in Irish districts to his 'South Boston face'. In the Southern United States, the term is used in derisive reference to any Northerner, especially one who has migrated to

1500-598: The French l'anglais , meaning "the Englishman" or "the English language", which was sounded as Y'an-gee . American musicologist Oscar Sonneck debunked a romanticized false etymology in his 1909 work Report on "The Star-Spangled Banner", "Hail Columbia", "America", "Yankee Doodle" . He cited a popular theory that claimed the word came from a tribe who called themselves Yankoos , said to mean "invincible". The story claimed that New Englanders had defeated this tribe after

1560-497: The Rhode Island accent also includes a sharp distinction in the vowels of Mary , marry , and merry and in the vowels in cot [ɑ] versus caught [oə] , plus the pronunciation of /ɑr/ , as in car , far back in the mouth as [ɑ~ɑə] —these three features making this New England accent noticeably similar to a New York accent . These features are often unlike the modern Northeastern New England (NENE) dialect of Boston, as

1620-708: The South and maintains derisive attitudes towards Southerners and the Southern way of life. Alabama lawyer and author Daniel Robinson Hundley describes the Yankee as such in Social Relations in Our Southern States : Yankee with all these is looked upon usually as a term of reproach—signifying a shrewd, sharp, chaffering, oily-tongued, soft-sawdering, inquisitive, money-making, money-saving, and money-worshipping individual, who hails from Down East, and who

1680-775: The United States. Their various meanings depend on the context, and may refer to New Englanders , the Northeastern United States , the Northern United States , or to people from the US in general. Outside the United States, Yank is used informally to refer to a person or thing from the US. It has been especially popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand where it may be used variously, either with an uncomplimentary overtone, endearingly, or cordially. In

1740-405: The basement" (as in "She's getting some boxes down-cellar"). Northeastern New England English, popularly recognized as a Boston or Maine accent, in addition to all the above phonological features, further includes the merger of the vowel in cot and caught to [ɒ~ɑ] , often with a slightly rounded quality, but a resistance to the merger of the vowels in father versus bother , a merger that

1800-449: The bulk of New Hampshire , and central and coastal Maine . Boston speech also originated many slang and uniquely local terms that have since spread throughout Massachusetts and Eastern New England. Although mostly non-rhotic, the modern Boston accent typically pronounces the r sound in the NURSE vowel, /ɜr/ , as in bird , learn , turkey , world , etc. A traditional Maine accent,

1860-411: The closest remnant today to a more widespread 19th-century Yankee regional accent, includes the phonology mentioned above, plus the loss of the phonemic status of /ɛə/ (as in there ), /ɪə/ (as in here ), and /oə/ (as in more ) all of which are broken into two syllables ( /eɪə, i.ə, oʊə/ , respectively): they-uh , hee-yuh , and moh-uh ; some distinct vocabulary is also used in this accent. Maine

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1920-548: The country. The Spanish variation yanqui is used in Latin American Spanish, often derogatorily. Venezuelan Spanish has the word pitiyanqui derived around 1940 from petit yankee or petit yanqui , a derogatory term for those who profess an exaggerated and often ridiculous admiration for anything from the United States. In the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia, the term seppo , shortened from traditional rhyming slang yank ==> septic tank ,

1980-421: The earliest recorded use of the word "Yankee" in 1758 when he referred to the New England soldiers under his command. "I can afford you two companies of Yankees, and the more, because they are better for ranging and scouting than either work or vigilance". Later British use of the word was in a derogatory manner, as seen in a cartoon published in 1775 ridiculing "Yankee" soldiers. New Englanders themselves employed

2040-680: The former prevail wherever the latter are found. Although the genuine Yankee belongs to New England, the term "Yankee" is now as appropriate to the natives of the Union at large. Yankees settled other states in various ways: some joined highly organized colonization companies, others purchased groups of land together; some joined volunteer land settlement groups, and self-reliant individual families also migrated. Yankees typically lived in villages consisting of clusters of separate farms. Often they were merchants, bankers, teachers, or professionals. Village life fostered local democracy, best exemplified by

2100-526: The late 1860s to educate the Freedmen . Historian John Buenker has examined the worldview of the Yankee settlers in the Midwest: Because they arrived first and had a strong sense of community and mission, Yankees were able to transplant New England institutions, values, and mores, altered only by the conditions of frontier life. They established a public culture that emphasized the work ethic,

2160-400: The late 19th and early 20th centuries. As of the 21st century, certain traditional characteristics are declining due to many younger Eastern New Englanders avoiding them, particularly non-rhoticity and the aforementioned vowel distinctions, which they tend to perceive as old-fashioned, overly rural-sounding, or even overly urban-sounding with regard to Boston . New Hampshire speakers on

2220-575: The late colonial period, many became Presbyterians , Episcopalians , Methodists , or, later, Unitarians . Strait-laced 17th-century moralism as derided by novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne faded in the 18th century. The First Great Awakening under Jonathan Edwards and others in the mid-18th century, and the Second Great Awakening in the early 19th century under Charles Grandison Finney and others emphasized personal piety, revivals, and devotion to civic duty. A pervasive influence on

2280-424: The modern Yankee stereotype. Coolidge moved from rural Vermont to urban Massachusetts and was educated at elite Amherst College . Yet his flint-faced, unprepossessing ways and terse rural speech proved politically attractive. "That Yankee twang will be worth a hundred thousand votes", explained one Republican leader. Coolidge's laconic ways and dry humor were characteristic of stereotypical rural "Yankee humor" at

2340-426: The most dedicated Red Sox fans living in the northeastern United States. The term Swamp Yankee is sometimes used in rural Rhode Island, Connecticut, and southeastern Massachusetts to refer to Protestant farmers of moderate means and their descendants, although it is often regarded as a derogatory term. Scholars note that the famous Yankee "twang" survives mainly in the hill towns of interior New England, though it

2400-694: The new Republican party in the 1860s. This was especially true for the Congregationalists , Presbyterians , and Methodists among them. A study of 65 predominantly Yankee counties showed that they voted only 40 percent for the Whigs in 1848 and 1852, but became 61–65 percent Republican in presidential elections of 1856 through 1864. Ivy League universities remained bastions of old Yankee culture until well after World War II , particularly Harvard and Yale . President Calvin Coolidge exemplified

2460-519: The northeast, while wealthy New Englanders also sent ambassadors to frontier communities where they became influential bankers and newspaper printers. They introduced the term "Universal Yankee Nation" to proselytize their hopes for national and global influence. New England Yankees originally followed the Puritan tradition, as expressed in Congregational and Baptist churches. Beginning in

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2520-407: The open town meeting form of government that still exists today in New England. Village life also stimulated mutual oversight of moral behavior and emphasized civic virtue. The Yankees built international trade routes stretching to China by 1800 from the New England seaports of Boston , Salem , Providence , Newport , and New London , among others. Much of the profit from trading was reinvested in

2580-439: The sanctity of private property, individual responsibility, faith in residential and social mobility, practicality, piety, public order and decorum, reverence for public education, activists, honest, and frugal government, town meeting democracy, and he believed that there was a public interest that transcends particular and stock ambitions. Regarding themselves as the elect and just in a world rife with sin and corruption, they felt

2640-408: The story of Christmas. The Frisco Silver Dollar Line consists of a total of seven steam engines, of which four are used as of 2023. All four of them fire on No. 2 diesel fuel as their fuel source. They are 610 mm (2 foot) narrow-gauge steam locomotives . The Frisco Silver Dollar Line also has two sets of four passenger cars, which are always pulled by one of the operating steam engines. There

2700-617: The term in The Devil's Dictionary as: "In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)" E. B. White humorously draws his own distinctions: To foreigners, a Yankee is an American. To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner. To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner. To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander. To New Englanders,

2760-423: The textile and machine tools industries. After 1800, Yankees spearheaded most American reform movements, including those for the abolition of slavery, temperance in use of alcohol, increase in women's political rights, and improvement in women's education. Emma Willard and Mary Lyon pioneered in the higher education of women, while Yankees comprised most of the reformers who went South during Reconstruction in

2820-421: The turn of the 20th century. Yankee ingenuity was a worldwide stereotype of inventiveness, technical solutions to practical problems, "know-how," self-reliance, and individual enterprise. The stereotype first appeared in the 19th century. As Mitchell Wilson notes, "Yankee ingenuity and Yankee git-up-and-go did not exist in colonial days." The great majority of Yankees gravitated toward the burgeoning cities of

2880-756: The two are sometimes combined into a single name (Jan Kees). Its Anglicized spelling Yankee could, in this way, have been used to mock Dutch colonists. The chosen name Jan Kees may have been partly inspired by a dialectal rendition of Jan Kaas ("John Cheese"), the generic nickname that Southern Dutch used for Dutch people living in the North. The Online Etymology Dictionary gives its origin as around 1683, attributing it to English colonists insultingly referring to Dutch colonists. English privateer William Dampier relates his dealings in 1681 with Dutch privateer Captain Yanky or Yanke. Linguist Jan de Vries notes that there

2940-547: The unique dialect of Rhode Island technically falls within the Eastern New England dialect region. Eastern New England English, here including Rhode Island English, is classically associated with sound patterns such as: non-rhoticity , or dropping r when not before a vowel; both variants of Canadian raising , including a fairly back starting position of the /aʊ/ vowel (as in MOUTH ); and some variation of

3000-549: The use of the term throughout the years has been the song "Yankee Doodle" which was popular during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). The song originated among the British troops during the French and Indian or Seven Years' War, creating a stereotype of the Yankee simpleton who stuck a feather in his cap and thought that he was stylish, but it was rapidly re-appropriated by American patriots after

3060-768: The whole are particularly well documented as retreating from these older Eastern New England features since the mid-20th century onwards. The sound system of traditional Eastern New England English includes: Some words or phrases most famously or strongly associated with Eastern New England are: Many words common to Boston are also common throughout New England dialects: grinder for " submarine sandwich " (also, spuckie or spuky in East Boston ), packie (or package store ) for " liquor store ", rotary for " traffic circle " (these full-speed circular intersections being common in Greater Boston ), and yous as

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3120-588: The word Yankee , but modern linguists generally reject theories that suggest it originated in any Indigenous languages. This includes a theory put forth by a British officer in 1789, who said that it was derived from the Cherokee word eankke meaning "coward"—despite the fact that no such word existed in the Cherokee language. Another theory surmised that the word was borrowed from the Wyandot pronunciation of

3180-473: The word in a neutral sense; the " Pennamite–Yankee War ", for example, was a series of clashes in 1769 over land titles in Pennsylvania between settlers from Connecticut Colony and "Pennamite" settlers from Pennsylvania . The meaning of Yankee has varied over time. In the 18th century, it referred to residents of New England descended from the original English settlers of the region. Mark Twain used

3240-757: The word in this sense the following century in his 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court . As early as the 1770s, British people applied the term to any person from the United States. In the 19th century, Americans in the southern United States employed the word in reference to Americans from the northern United States, though not to recent immigrants from Europe. Thus, a visitor to Richmond, Virginia , commented in 1818, "The enterprising people are mostly strangers; Scots, Irish, and especially New England men, or Yankees, as they are called". Historically, it has also been used to distinguish American-born Protestants from later immigrants, such as Catholics of Irish descent. Many etymologies have been suggested for

3300-518: The word to any American inhabiting the area north of the Mason–Dixon Line , though usually with a specific focus still on New England. New England Yankee might be used to differentiate. However, within New England itself, the term still refers more specifically to old-stock New Englanders of English descent. For example: Certainly the Irish have for years complained of Yankee discrimination against them. There were no civil rights groups then. Even

3360-419: The working-class plural form of "you" (a word found throughout the urban Northeast with many spelling variants). Cellar , whose definition may have slight nuances nationwide, can also be a simple synonym for basement in Eastern New England and Massachusetts generally. In this same area, related expressions like down the cellar or even down-cellar are distinctive, meaning "down to the basement" or "down in

3420-470: The “Frisco,” was a standard-gauge railroad which operated in the general area. It supplied construction materials such as rails and ties when this line was being built in 1962. Perhaps for these reasons, the trains sport the Frisco name and logo. However, this was never an actual Frisco rail line and the steam locomotives were never actual rolling stock on the Frisco. On October 26, 2022, at around 6:00 pm,

3480-474: Was developed by Thomas Chandler Haliburton , and it grew between 1836 and 1844 in a series of publications. The damned Yankee usage dates from 1812. Confederates popularized it as a derogatory term for their Northern enemies during and after the American Civil War (1861–1865). Rhode Island Governor Bruce Sundlun had been a pilot in World War II, and he named his B-17F bomber Damn Yankee because

3540-459: Was mention of a pirate named Dutch Yanky in the 17th century. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves (1760) contains the passage, "Haul forward thy chair again, take thy berth, and proceed with thy story in a direct course, without yawing like a Dutch yanky." According to this theory, Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam started using the term against the English colonists of neighboring Connecticut. British General James Wolfe made

3600-667: Was never a tribe called the Yankoos . The original Yankees diffused widely across the northern United States, leaving their imprints in New York, the Upper Midwest , many taking advantage of water routes by the Great Lakes , and places as far away as Seattle , San Francisco , and Honolulu . Yankeeism is the general character of the Union. Yankee manners are as migratory as Yankee men. The latter are found everywhere and

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