‘Peace and solace in the storm of life’; The story of Yankee Candle’s journey to the ‘scenter of the universe’
Made in Massachusetts is an ongoing feature taking you inside the products made right here in the Bay State and the people who make them.It was Christmas 1969. Sixteen-year-old Michael Kittredge was short on money, so he took kitchen string, half a milk carton and some red crayon wax and made his mother a candle.