Can You Name This Island Town?
Local legend says the fellow this point is named after stood nearly 7 feet tall, and his height inspired his nickname, which lives on in fanciful yarns more than a century after his death. The...
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For Mom, Picking Crab Meat Wasn’t About The Money
By Angela WaldronFrom our June 2021 issue Bang! Bam! Thud. Bang! Bam! Thud. The impact from Mom’s hammer reverberated throughout the house. At the ungodly hour of 7 a.m., she stood at the kitchen...
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How Wild Blueberries Get From the Barrens to Your Breakfast Table
Illustrated by Erwin Sherman FIRST FRUITS Wild blueberries took root in Maine 10,000 years ago, after the glaciers receded, and began growing in the acidic, sandy soils of what are now Washington and...
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Ben’s Picks: Biweekly Photo Faves
Boon Island Eclipse PHOTOGRAPHED BY JAMIE WALTER Not everyone knew about the June 10 solar eclipse, but a lot of die-hard photographers certainly did. Count Jamie Walter in this group, a Maine...
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Meet the Mad Hatter of Maine
As told to Sara Anne DonnellyPhotographed by Brian FitzgeraldFrom our June 2021 issue One of my favorite aspects of making custom hats is digging into people’s self-expression and what they want to...
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The Maine Scientist Who Analyzes Your Beer
By Will GrunewaldPhotographed by Michael D. Wilson Not so long ago, Luci Benedict wasn’t particularly into beer, personally or professionally. A chemistry professor at the University of Southern...
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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Carrying Place Cove, Phippsburg Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from May’s photo. After years of reading and subscribing to...
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5 Maine-Made Items For Your Next Fishing Trip
By Katherine EnglishmanPhotographed by Clayton Simoncic and Mark Fleming Maine Fly Company’s Small Batch Rods Meticulously designed fishing rods in a range of weights, lengths, and actions, hand-built...
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Two 150-Year-Old Maine Windjammers, Two Claims to Being the Country’s Oldest
By Will Grunewald Anyone who wants to sail aboard the country’s oldest windjammer had better parse some semantics before booking. The Rockland-based Stephen Taber advertises as “the oldest documented...
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How Maine’s “Fishin’ Physicians” Came Down With Chronic Stripermania
By Mitch BretonPhotographed by Clayton SimoncicFrom our June 2021 issue In the spring of 2020, second-year osteopathic medical students Charlie Bloom and Kelsey Klingel rollerbladed into their 8 a.m....
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Remembering the Remarkable Life of David Driskell
By Will Grunewald When 88-year-old artist David Driskell passed away last year from the coronavirus, he left behind a singular artistic legacy. His painting and printmaking bucked genres, shifted...
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How Every Maine Town Got Its Name
By Will Grunewald In a state where Mexico is less than an hour’s drive north of Norway, with Paris wedged in between, it’s easy to wonder why towns are called what they are. John McDonald and Marion...
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The Monhegan Museum Tickets & Exhibition Catalogue Giveaway
The exhibition will explore the relationship between the art colonies of Monhegan, Maine and Cape Ann, Massachusetts. These locations, separated by a hundred miles of ocean, became important...
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Find Funky Fermented Foods and Beverages at Onggi
By Will GrunewaldPhotographs courtesy of OnggiFrom our July 2021 issue Kimchi and other fermented foods were simply a part of growing up for Marcus Im, whose parents and grandparents immigrated to the...
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Hickory Arms’s Maine-Made Swords Are Keeping Chivalry Alive
By Adrienne PerronPhotographed by Jeff Roberts The Owners Trent and Colleen Schriefer were administrators at the University of New Hampshire in 2013, when Trent, a sword fanatic and collector since...
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Are Haskap Berries the Next Big Aroostook County Crop?
By Will Grunewald Aroostook County’s rolling fields are known for their potatoes. For fruits, not so much. But when Fort Kent Christmas-tree–farming brothers Ben and Joe Voisine and their dad, Gary,...
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Maine’s Abandoned Military Forts:A Photo Tour
From colonial outposts to midcentury batteries, Maine’s former military forts are bastions of history and marvels of engineering. Photographer Benjamin Williamson captures their splendors, grand and...
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The Midcoast Sternmen Are What the NBA Used to Be
Brathwaite shoots over teammate and erstwhile UMaine Fort Kent center Thomas Enerva. By Joel CrabtreePhotographed by Jason Frank At Thomas College, in Waterville, Isaiah Brathwaite was a standout on...
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The Stories Behind Five Classic Maine Fly Patterns
By Ronald JosephIllustrations by Jada Fitch On July 1, 1924, Carrie G. Stevens cast a homemade fishing fly into the outlet of Mooselookmeguntic Lake and netted a 6-pound, 13-ounce brook trout. Her...
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The Maine Crafts Guild’s Fine Craft Shows Are Back, With a Twist
By Adrienne Perron If, for the last 40 or so years, you were foggy on the difference between the Maine Crafts Association, dedicated to advocacy and professional development for the state’s craft...
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