How to Refinance Your Home
With interest rates at historic lows, refinancing has never seemed more attractive. “It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen before,” says Nicole Hotchkin, assistant vice president, senior retail loan...
View ArticleHow to Find the Right Real Estate Broker
Maine homes have never been in higher demand. If you’re thinking of buying or selling, it’s never been more important to have an expert on your side. “When buying or selling a home you need...
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Can the Roux Institute Turn Portland Into a Tech Hub?
By Will Grunewald As Portland’s Roux Institute welcomed its first students last summer, the coronavirus pandemic was exposing the tenuousness of a local economy heavily reliant on hospitality and...
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Photographer Séan Alonzo Harris’s Street View of Portland
Above: Scaffolding obscures the brick tower of the First National Bank Block, on Exchange Street, a Queen Anne–style landmark in the Old Port. Since 1884, a weather vane atop the tower has shown which...
View ArticlePoor Joanna
By Susan Hand Shetterly Everyone carries within them the sense of an island, a part of them that is separate from the whole. When I first moved to Maine and lived in a cabin not far from the shore, I...
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Who Wields Power in Portland?
To understand why a 12-person commission will spend the next year considering revisions to Portland’s city charter — and to understand why it matters — it helps to begin in 1923, when the Ku Klux Klan...
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How Portland’s Washington Avenue Became All About Food
By Kaitlyn Schwalje Through much of the 20th century, John. J. Nissen Baking was Washington Avenue’s defining feature, the company name spelled out in big white letters across the factory’s block-long...
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Artists Rachel and Ryan Adams Are All Over Portland
Rachel Adams, who’s also a textile artist, says she was inspired by the geometric patterns on African mud cloth when designing her mural in the ball room of the new Children’s Museum & Theatre of...
View ArticleMaine News You May Have Missed
Scarborough Shipyard Brewing and Sea Dog Brewing teamed up with Scarborough’s Novel Beverage to produce THC-infused, non-alcoholic versions of Shipyard Pumpkinhead and Sea Dog Wild Blueberry,...
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Five Clothing Designers Stitching the Fabric of Portland
By Sarah StebbinsPhotographed by Savannah Daras Maine’s never been a fashion weather vane, its sartorial traditions tending towards practicality. Think: Waterville’s C.F. Hathaway shirts, which...
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Linda Aldrich’s Favorite Maine Place
When Linda Aldrich learned in May 2018 that she’d been named Portland’s poet laureate, she didn’t shriek or jump up and down. Instead, the soft-spoken writer drove from her Back Cove home onto Munjoy...
View ArticleAsk the Maine Experts: How to Plan Your Financial Future
The pandemic has upended every aspect of everyday life, including the best-laid plans for saving, retirement, and covering kids’ college tuition. In the past year, Peter Nicholson, senior portfolio...
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Coming Home to Vacationland
Jan Landis remembers the first visit to Linekin Bay Resort in vivid detail. It was a dark and stormy night in August of 1970. She and her husband, John, then both 29, had just bought their first...
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The Headbanging Bartender Who Saved Geno’s Rock Club
By Joel CrabtreePhotographed by Jeff Roberts Since 1983, Geno’s Rock Club has been Portland’s dimly lit, high-decibel, close-quarters refuge for up-and-comers and niche bands, especially punk and...
View ArticleMay 2021
Features Maine Summer Is Back Your region-by-region preview of the traditions, activities, and events that make summer in the Pine Tree State unforgettable. By Bridget M. Burns, Joyce Kryszak, Mira...
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This Gladiator-Themed Card Game Will Make You Feel Like a Real Combatant
By Adrienne PerronPhotographs courtesy of David Matson When David Matson was 14, his dad gave him a book about gladiators, and soon he was envisioning a game inspired by the Roman combatants, one...
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Can You Name This Idyllic Cove and the Village and Town It’s A Part Of?
In the summer of 1914, an up-and-coming modernist painter spent a few weeks living in a shack on the spit of land bordering the cove this photo looks out from. One of his watercolors from that trip...
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Maine’s Devil’s Half Acre is the Country’s Only Field-to-Bottle Gin Distillery
By Will GrunewaldPhotographed by Alberto Lopez Juniperus communis, the common juniper, thrives in frigid climes, takes root in the thinnest of soils, and claims the widest geographic range of any tree...
View ArticleWhere in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Pennesseewassee Lake Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from March’s photo. It’s true that pictures are worth a thousand words....
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Amity Libby’s “Botanical Realism”
By Jesse EllisonPhotographed by Tory Welton Amity Katharine Libby’s discovery of botanical realism came out of a time and feeling that may seem familiar in the spring of 2021: intense isolation. It...
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