Maine News You May Have Missed
Portland Several monkey sightings were reported in the city’s West End. It’s illegal to keep a monkey as a pet in Maine, although one witness said it looked like a type of macaque commonly used in...
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An Unlikely Rescue in the Kennebec Gorge — And Its Aftermath
By Franklin BurroughsIllustration by Jon KrausePublished as “Catch & Release” in our August 2022 issue Remember two summers ago? Post-COVID, pre-vaccine. Nobody understood the virus; handwashing...
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Welcome to Maine’s White Mountains
The 8 Best Day Hikes in Maine’s White Mountains Four peaks under 2,000 feet and four of the highest peaks in Maine’s White Mountains. In Praise of the Stow Corner Store There’s just one option for...
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The 8 Best Day Hikes in Maine’s White Mountains
By Will GrunewaldFrom our August 2022 issue Short and Sweet Four peaks under 2,000 feet that offer adventure for the whole family. On Lord Hill. Photo by Tory Welton. Lord Hill Elevation: 1,257...
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Meet the Old Whites Guys
By Will GrunewaldFrom our August 2022 issue Afew years before the country’s oldest operating outdoors organization, the Appalachian Mountain Club, came into existence, and a few decades before the...
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The Best Swimming Holes in Maine’s White Mountains
By Adrienne PerronFrom our August 2022 issue Tucked away along the mountain trails of the Whites, canopy-covered ponds and plunge pools are inviting on a hot summer’s day. But etiquette and trail...
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Fanfare for the Common Bird
When he included this image, from his early days shooting in Maine, in his 1997 book Sightings, Ralston titled it Glint, for the look in the herring gull’s eye. “It embodied the larger wariness I was...
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From the Archives: Remembering Kosti Ruohomaa, October 1969
Down East, October 1969 “Writing about a departed friend is never an easy assignment. When the good friend, by virtue of his special genius, belongs in public domain, the task becomes a...
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Fryeburg and Bethel Are Notch Your Average Towns
By Brian KevinFrom our August 2022 issue Fryeburg Nestled in the foothills some 15 miles south of the national forest, Fryeburg feels more like a quiet New England farm town than a classic mountain...
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On Portland’s Eastern Prom, the More Food Trucks the Merrier
By Will GrunewaldFrom our September 2022 issue In recent years, the Eastern Promenade park became Portland’s food-truck hub, with a dozen or more mobile kitchens crowding the curb any given day....
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Brickett? I Hardly Know It
By Brian KevinFrom our August 2022 issue A driver on Route 113, entering Evans Notch, might be forgiven for supposing the neat-as-a-pin brick Federal set back from the road just east of the New...
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Features Best of Maine Our 15th annual roundup of Maine’s best everything: art galleries to architects, beers to boutiques, golf courses to gift shops. How did your favorites do? “The Kind of Meat My...
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Can You Name This Hill and the Town Where It’s Found?
Atop this hill, surrounded by some 400 acres of lowbush-blueberry shrubs, hikers can take in sweeping views of both the ocean and Maine’s distant western mountains. The little knoll, just 643 feet...
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4 Pieces of Elegant Maine-Made Stationery
By Adrienne PerronPhotographed by Clayton SimoncicFrom our September 2022 issue Himalayan Paper Makers: Lisa Taylor met business partner Sameer Basnet when he was a porter on a Himalayan hiking trip...
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In Praise of the Stow Corner Store
By Joel CrabtreePhotographed by Brandon PullenFrom our August 2022 issue Maine’s slice of the White Mountain National Forest is big on things to do, a bit short on things to eat. At the northern end,...
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Beautiful Turned-Wood Bowls for a Cause, Courtesy of the Maine State Prison
By Monique BrouillettePhotographed by Tara RiceFrom our September 2022 issue Earlier this year, Joe Ryan, executive director of Knox County’s Area Interfaith Outreach, was working with Camden’s Page...
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Congratulations to the Winners of the 2022 Down East Lobster Roll Competition!
We invited purveyors of lobster rolls from all over Maine to enter the 2022 Down East Lobster Roll Competition. Then, we asked readers to vote for their favorite. The results have been tallied, and...
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A Petroglyph Artist Leaves His Mark on a Phippsburg Nature Preserve
By Susan ConleyPhotographed by Benjamin WilliamsonFrom our September 2022 issue The artist Kevin Sudeith stood next to a long, high ledge of grayish feldspar and milky quartz in Phippsburg Land...
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See the Evolution of Maine’s Identity at Bowdoin’s Bicentennial Art Exhibition
By Will GrunewaldFrom our September 2022 issue For proof that this sparsely populated and out-of-the-way state boasts an outsize artistic footprint, one need only stroll through At First Light: Two...
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Terry Gerritsen’s Favorite Maine Place
By Bridget M. BurnsFrom our September 2022 issue When she first visited Maine, 32 years ago, Terry Gerritsen was living in Hawaii, where she’d been a medical internist before starting to publish...
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