July 2022
Features In With the Old We’ve rounded up 40 of our favorite antiques stores, vintage shops, flea markets, and more along four winding antiques trails. Treasure hunters, it’s road-trip time. By Sarah...
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Julia Bouwsma’s Favorite Maine Place
By Brian KevinFrom our June 2022 issue Before poet laureate Julia Bouwsma lived in Maine, back in the late ’90s and early ’00s, she sometimes visited with her college pal turned partner Walker...
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Can You Name This Harborfront Town and the Movie Musical Filmed There?
Each summer for the past 60 years, schooners under full sail have paraded from a nearby island into this town’s lovely harbor as its streets teem with festivities — lobster-eating contests, art fairs,...
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America’s Best Bus Stop Is in Portland, Maine
By Jaed CoffinPhotographed by Greta RybusFrom our July 2022 issue Midmorning on a weekday, nobody was waiting outside 519 Congress Street, in Portland, where a bus shelter sits in front of the old,...
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Can Northeast Harbor Stay Livable Year-Round?
By Virginia M. WrightPhotographed by Benjamin WilliamsonFrom our June 2022 issue Nowhere in coastal Maine, where hardships are crowned with pointed firs and trimmed with a shimmering sea, is there a...
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This Unassuming Maine Farm Once Sheltered Families Displaced By War
By Bridget M. BurnsPhotograph by Heidi KirnFrom our July 2022 issue Soon after I moved to Kennebunkport, in 2009, I got a job working at Wink’s, a mom-and-pop sandwich shop. The store opened at 5...
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$35 Lobster Rolls? Shelling Out For Lobster Is Nothing New
By Will GrunewaldFrom our July 2022 issue It’s not just from Eastport to Kittery that astronomical lobster prices make the news. Per the New York Times: “A scarcity of Maine lobsters has pushed the...
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Monhegan Museum of Art & History Giveaway
THE ODYSSEY OF JAMES FITZGERALD This summer, the Monhegan Museum of Art & History will celebrate the life and art of James Fitzgerald (1899-1971) in a retrospective exhibition of his watercolor...
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Ben’s Picks: Our Favorite Maine Photos
Pemaquid Lightning PHOTOGRAPHED BY JACK BOAK Want to know my favorite thing about photography? Is it chasing the weather? Dramatic light? The gear? Nope, none of these are my favorite things. My...
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The Fading Americana of Down East Maine
Photographed by Benjamin WilliamsonText by Brian KevinFrom our July 2022 issue it’s a hard term to pin down: Americana. It has to do, of course, with some ineffable qualities that make our strange,...
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Should Camden Remove Its 200-Year-Old Harbor-Front Dam?
By Joel CrabtreeFrom our July 2022 issue When it comes to scenery, the coastal enclave of Camden has an embarrassment of riches — its huddled collection of quaint inns, shops, and restaurants; the...
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Common Threads of Maine Sews a New Future
By Adrienne PerronPhotographed by Molly HaleyFrom our July 2022 issue In 2015, a few years after Apphia Kamanda moved to Maine from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, her English teacher suggested...
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Just Say No?
By Philip ConklingPhotograph by Peter RalstonFrom our July 2022 issue New Englanders have been pulling wondrous amounts of seafood out of the ocean for centuries, but how much do we know about our...
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Isabella Feracci’s Favorite Maine Place
By Brian KevinFrom our July 2022 issue Some 20 years ago, before she learned to build boats, Isabella Feracci worked in an office in NYC, at an NYU-affiliated urban-planning think tank. It’s not that...
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Celia Thaxter’s Island Gardens Spring Up In a Colorful New Book
By Will GrunewaldFrom our July 2022 issue Alighthouse keeper’s daughter in the mid-1800s, Celia Thaxter grew up on islands. Until the age of 12, she delighted in scattering marigolds in the thin soil...
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What’s Next For the Maine Crafts Association?
By Adrienne PerronFrom our July 2022 issue Why was this the time to step away from the Maine Crafts Association? We recently restructured into two separate organizations: Shop Maine Craft will focus...
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Tacos and Sushi Get Rolled Into One in Bridgton
By Will GrunewaldPhotographed by Mat TrognorFrom our July 2022 issue Elevation Sushi and Tacos is not, for the most part, a fusion restaurant. Kim Morton, Mike Perez, and their son-in-law John Dexter...
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Seawicks Candles Share the Scents of Maine
A decade ago, Michael Gaffney was torn about accepting a job offer that would relocate him and his wife, Cara, to Boston from midcoast Maine. Originally from upstate New York, he came to the Northeast...
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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Orono Bog Boardwalk Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from May’s photo. When I was an undergraduate student at UMaine (class...
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The Four Maine Antiques Trails No Treasure Hunter Should Miss
From our July 2022 issueMaps by MollyMaps Seasoned collectors know: Maine’s reverence for history, abundance of old homesteads and estates, and generations of tourist traffic make the Pine Tree State...
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