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Happy Wheels Rolls On
By Joel CrabtreePhotographed by Jason FrankFrom our January 2023 issue Back when disco dominated the charts, mobs of twirling, permed, besequinned skaters packed into roller rinks across the country....
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Lynne Drexler Saw the World Through Kaleidoscope Eyes
By Will GrunewaldFrom our February 2023 issue Lynne Drexler lived in a white-clapboard house at the end of a long, narrow lane on Monhegan Island, at the foot of a steep slope that climbs to a...
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Kate Stookey’s Favorite Maine Place
By Brian KevinFrom our February 2023 issue Like many former adolescent daredevils who grew up around Blue Hill, Kate Stookey has fond memories of leaping off the town’s 1926 rainbow-arch bridge — and...
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At Sunday River, The Best Doughnuts You Can Buy On a Ski Trail
By Will GrunewaldPhotographed by Cait BourgaultFrom our February 2023 issue Last winter, Mark and Jennifer Tripp tried something new with their Ona-Tripp food truck: hitching it behind a snow-cat so...
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Stephen King’s Chicken Wings (And Other Delights)
By Will GrunewaldFrom our February 2023 issue King wrote a forward for the new cookbook, full of “80 classic and modern recipes inspired by Stephen King’s Maine.” Does It, Stephen King’s tale of a...
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Mardi Gras Revelers Love This Waterville Artist’s Magnificent Masks
By Arielle GreenbergFrom our February 2023 issue Growing up in Jay, Alexis Burbank lived across the street from artist Sandra Stanton, a painter inspired by classical mythology. Their visits and...
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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Corea Harbor Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from December’s photo. Having grown up on Petit Manan and summered there for...
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Acadia National Park in Winter is a Little-Visited Marvel
Photographed by Benjamin WilliamsonText by Ann Pollard RancoFrom our February 2023 issue For thousands of years, my Penobscot ancestors have been coming to Mount Desert Island — a place we know as...
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What’s So Funny ’Bout Peace, Love, and Waffle Branding?
By Brian KevinPhotographed by Sienna ReneeFrom our February 2023 issue Among hashtagged images on Instagram, #pancakes has more than double the representation of #waffles, which seems to me an...
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The New Maine Classics
From our February 2023 issue Nothing but love for Kenneth Roberts, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E. B. White, and other old-school heavyweights, but the last 25 years have also given us a bumper crop of...
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Buy This Issue! Features Winter People For some Mainers, the coldest months of the year are the best time to test their mettle outdoors. By Adrienne Perron | Photographed by Tara Rice Still Feisty A...
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In a Lifetime at Sea, Elliot Rappaport Has Seen Some Unbelievable Weather
By Will GrunewaldFrom our March 2023 issue Mariners rank among a small subset of professionals — with the likes of pilots and mountaineers — who are attuned to weather in a way most people never need...
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7 of Our Favorite Maine-y Graphic Tees
By Adrienne PerronPhotographed by Jamie Mercurio From our February 2023 issue With a mélange of archival photos and cool vintage T-shirts, the Maine Historical Society’s ongoing exhibit Fashion for...
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How to Split Firewood Like a Pro
By Katy KelleherIllustrations by Kelsey GrassFrom our January 2023 issue 1. Prep Properly Wetherbee prefers a splitting maul to an axe, on account of its heavier, less tapered head — it’s less likely...
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How to Stack Firewood Like a Pro
By Katy KelleherIllustrations by Kelsey GrassFrom our January 2023 issue Esoteric Approaches For some, an unstacked cord is a call from the muse to make site-specific art. A good woodpile should offer...
View ArticleMaine News You May Have Missed
South Portland The owners of Legion Square Market, in Knightville, announced they were closing the neighborhood grocery. Locally favored for its cut-to-order butcher counter, the market had been in...
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Investing for a Better World
In the mid-’90s, Brian Bernatchez bought and remodeled the old post-office building in Belgrade Lakes Village, a stone’s throw from Great Pond, the inspiration for the stage play and film On Golden...
View ArticleCan You Name This Blustery Maine Peak?
Panoramic views of mountains and wildlands unfurl from this summit, which hikers access in the summer via a half-mile spur from the Appalachian Trail (there’s a shortcut in the winter, but you have to...
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In Brief: Miyake Is Back (And So Is Portland’s Dining Scene)
By Will GrunewaldPhotographed by Misha BarkerFrom our March 2022 issue The double whammy of pandemic and labor shortage eighty-sixed a lot of fine dining in Portland. Gone are Hugo’s, Piccolo, and...
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New Ideas (and Old Trash) at This Year’s CMCA Biennial
By Will GrunewaldFrom our March 2023 issue Granted, the Biennial at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art has always been about showcasing what’s new, but the state’s longest-running juried exhibition...
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