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Have You Tried Maine’s First Non-Alcoholic Beer?
By Joel CrabtreePhotographed by Clayton Simoncic Non-alcoholic beer has, in the past, fallen flat. For decades, big breweries produced pale imitations of the real deal that, at best, could be...
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In Dreams Begins Responsibility
By Susan Hand Shetterly I’ve had an odd recurring dream during the pandemic. It’s set under water, a vision blurred by shifting currents and light, and I am in it, moving ahead with slow swimming...
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The Bailey Island Fishing Tournament: Monster Tuna, Maine Tradition
Mainers with a bluefin, circa 1935, from a Portland Press Herald glass negative. By Edgar Allen BeemFrom our June 2021 issue The late Elroy “Snoody” Johnson, of Harpswell’s Bailey Island, was...
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Bar Harbor U.S. News & World Report named the Mount Desert Island town the country’s best small town to visit, directly ahead of out- West hotspots Telluride, Jackson Hole, and Lake Tahoe. Bar...
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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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Water Street Kitchen & Bar Puts a Mediterranean Spin on Maine Seafood
Clockwise from top: paella with Maine mussels and littlenecks; roasted lobster with whiskey-tarragon butter; truffle fries. By Will GrunewaldPhotographed by Danielle Sykes Chef Ed Colburn had cooked...
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Boothbay Harbor is More Than A Summer Place
By Jennifer Van AllenFrom our May 2021 issue When Laura and Josh Puchalski wanted to move their bakery to Maine from Massachusetts, they spent a year driving up and down the coast searching for their...
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To Chef Pone Vattaso, Maine’s Catfish Are a Real Catch
By Jaed CoffinPhotographed by Dave Dostie To most anglers in Maine, landing a catfish (also called a bullhead or hornpout) is no special prize. But to many Southeast Asians in this state, catching —...
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Rich Kimball’s Favorite Maine Place
By Sean McAdam Stalwart Bangor broadcaster Rich Kimball remembers visiting Thuya Garden for the first time in his 20s. The brainchild of Charles K. Savage, whose family owned the nearby Asticou Inn,...
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Mike Baker Lands Heavy Fish and Leaves a Light Carbon Footprint
By James JoinerFrom our June 2021 issue Your fishing guide is doing it wrong. Sure, they got you on the surf, put you on some fish, ensured you a day of cranking monster after monster out of the deep...
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Ben’s Picks: Biweekly Photo Faves
Fireworks from the Katahdin PHOTOGRAPHED BY ISAAC CRABTREE One of my favorite uses of photography is to document shared cultural experiences. Isaac Crabtree does that beautifully around his home in...
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5 Under-the-Radar Maine Preserves to Hike This Summer
In a typical year, nearly 29 million tourists pour into Maine. And if you’re hunting for a parking space, a campsite, or even just a little shoulder room on the trail at a state park in August, you...
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Features Lace Up! From all across Maine’s diverse and dazzling Acadia National Park, 35 of our favorite trails for every kind of adventurer. By Will Grunewald, Brian Kevin, Adrienne Perron, Jennifer...
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Foolish Pleasure, The World’s Fastest Lobsterboat, Rides Again
By Kathryn MilesPhotographed by Dave Waddell Mark Freeman grew up spending summers down east, on Beals Island, the heart of Maine lobsterboat culture. That’s where, in the early 20th century, a...
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The Ties That Bind
In the five years that she lived in Maine, the water always beckoned to Brenda Scanlon. She and her husband would stroll along Portland’s Eastern Promenade and gaze at the panoply of yachts, and...
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Confluence Collective Is Out to Make Fishing More Welcoming
By Adrienne PerronFrom our June 2021 issue Bri Dostie describes herself as an observer. It’s what makes somebody good at fly-fishing, she says, being in tune with the ecosystem around them. And in the...
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Can the Soul of “America’s Environmental College” Survive Digital Disruption?
By Bill Donahue It’s a Friday morning in May, and it’s sunny in central Maine, and the grass is green. The drab gray hues of mud season have ony recently exited the north country, and it is at last...
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Can You Name This Maine Mapping Marvel?
In the mid–19th century, as part of an ambitious federal effort to map the Atlantic seaboard, farmers and lumberjacks graded a 5.4-mile dirt path through a swath of Maine’s blueberry country. From...
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Maine’s Best Small-Town Downtowns
We paid a visit to six of our favorite downtowns from all across the state. Read up on each one below, then start planning your next road trip. Gardiner Along the Kennebec River, the Water Street...
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Best Small-Town Downtowns: Gardiner
By Brian KevinPhotographed by Dave Dostie Main Streets with moxie! In our July 2021 issue, we took a look at six of our favorite downtowns from all across the state — and the businesses, buildings,...
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