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Maine’s Oldest Water Park Revives Maine’s Oldest Drive-In
By Joel CrabtreeFrom our May 2023 issue Last summer, the big screen at the Saco Drive-In went dark, after the family that owned the theater for the past 36 years sold the property to a trailer...
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One Incredible Boothbay Vacation, Three Ways
For Families Linekin Bay Resort opened in Boothbay Harbor in 1919 as a summer camp, and the oceanside hideaway has been a place where families gather since 1946 — and for some, returning to the resort...
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The Maine Maritime Museum Goes Where No Ship Wants to Go
By Will GrunewaldFrom our May 2023 issue The Maine Maritime Museum is in Bath, the City of Ships, just a half mile down the road from Bath Iron Works, Maine’s largest shipyard. And so ships and the...
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Milk Bottle Mixers Go Down Easy, With or Without Booze
By Katy KelleherFrom our May 2023 issue When Maine restaurants started selling to-go cocktails early in the pandemic, Caitlin and Dillon Houser, two newly unemployed Portland food-industry vets, saw...
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Natives and Transplants
Known as blue flag, Harlequin blue flag, or simply blue iris, the native Iris versicolor flowers in the early summer. Peter Ralston shot this stand on a small, private island in Penobscot Bay, “one of...
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5 of Our Favorite Freeport Footpaths
By Adrienne PerronFrom our May 2023 issue A town known primarily for its retail scene, Freeport has an abundance of protected land and trails that surprises some visitors. “People don’t realize that...
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At the New Alna Store, Tag a Deer and Get a Great Negroni
By Jesse EllisonPhotos by Nicole WolfFrom our May 2023 issue Jasper Ludwig grew up in Newcastle, just seven minutes down the road from the Alna Store, which was originally owned by friends of her...
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101 Reasons to Love Summer in Maine
By Hadley GibsonFrom our May 2023 issue 1. Young’s Lobster Pound Is an Institution The tanks hold thousands of freshly caught bugs. Indoor and outdoor tables seat 500. Somehow, it feels as intimate as...
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America’s Sixth-Best Oyster Shucker Has His Eyes on the Prize
By Nora SaksPhotos by Tara RiceFrom our May 2023 issue At a picnic table by Portland’s East End Beach, Andy Rogers opened up his cooler bag and produced four knives, a lemon, and a stash of Salt Wind...
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Steven Rowley’s Favorite Maine Place
By Bridget M. BurnsFrom our May 2023 issue Author Steven Rowley lives in Palm Springs, California, where he loves his desert life but admits he sometimes longs for his home state. “Maine is beautiful...
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Enter for the Chance to Win This Limited-Edition Sea Bag!
“Maine Coast Heritage Trust is excited and proud to collaborate with such an iconic Maine artist and Maine company, and grateful for their support to keep the coast open, healthy, working, and...
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Maine Seacoast Mission Is Here for the Long Haul
This spring, Simone Babineaux stepped aboard Maine Seacoast Mission’s Sunbeam for a trip to Frenchboro, Isle au Haut, and Matinicus. It was her first official visit to the islands as the Sunbeam’s new...
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Buy This Issue! Features The Islands Issue We dispatched nine writers to 14 islands — large and small, peopled and unpeopled, along every stretch of the coast — in search of the kinds of wonders,...
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Can You Name This Maine Beacon and the Island It Marks?
From when this lighthouse was built, in 1897, until it was automated, in 1964, keepers lived on this windswept island, four miles off the coast. They often brought their families — and sometimes their...
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Can the Desert of Maine, Once a Roadside Curiosity, Become a Destination?
By Becca AbramsonFrom our May 2023 issue Let’s just get out of the way that the Desert of Maine is not technically a desert — too much rainfall for that. It is, however, an uncanny 40-acre stretch of...
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The Maine Coast’s Best Bar Isn’t a Bar At All
By Brian KevinPhotographed by Dave WaddellFrom our June 2023 Island Issue The best night out I’ve had in ages began in the mid-afternoon with a visit to Burnt Coat Harbor Light, which marks both the...
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Where to Find Fascinating Tide Pools on the Maine Coast
Tide pools are found in the intertidal zone, a unique marine ecosystem that serves as a habitat for myriad plants and animals. They can be nurseries for certain fish species — and lobsters! — and also...
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What Was the Art Colony?
By Brian KevinFrom our May 2023 issue The Art Colony Walking Tour brochure they hand out at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art explains things succinctly. “Since the 1890s,” it reads, “Ogunquit has...
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What Exactly Does a Petrel Chick Smell Like?
By Kimberly RidleyPhotographed by Tristan SpinskiFrom our June 2023 Island Issue Great Duck Island is a notoriously tough place to land a boat. There’s no dock, just a steep, slippery ramp on the...
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I Spent an Eight-Hour Day Just Listening to the Skowhegan Lecture Archive
By Katy KelleherFrom our May 2023 issue One of the first things I did upon arriving at Colby College’s Bixler Art and Music Library was break a compact disc. I’d come to listen to recordings from the...
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