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A Former Goop Editor, a Maine Island, Two Cafés, and a Lot of Bad Blood
By Lindsay CrudelePhotos by Isabel ButlerFrom our June 2023 Island Issue One evening last summer, music drifted out the open front door of Sonya, on Vinalhaven’s Main Street. The restaurant was...
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The Monhegan Museum Tickets & Exhibition Catalogue Giveaway
Monhegan Museum of Art & History presents the exhibition Counterpoint: Monhegan’s Artist Couples, showcasing the interwoven artistic endeavors of four couples who formed the core of Monhegan...
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Kimberly Hamilton’s Favorite Maine Place
By Brian KevinFrom our June 2023 Island Issue The new president of the 40-year-old nonprofit Island Institute comes into her role at a time when there is, as she puts it, “no shortage of issues facing...
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11 Maine Arts Residencies Where Creativity Thrives
By Adrienne PerronFrom our May 2023 issue “I believe that Maine has more summer-residency programs — and I think you could easily say per capita — than any other state,” says Donna McNeil, a former...
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On Frenchman Bay, An Island Steward Razes the Roof
By Jenny O’ConnellPhotographed by Andy GagneFrom our June 2023 Island Issue On a hazy blue day last September, in the woods above the gently sloping beach of Bean Island, Christina Hassett knelt on...
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Ask the Experts: How Do I Best Insure My Island Home?
Of Maine’s thousands of unbridged islands, 15 are inhabited year-round, with a few dozen more hosting seasonal dwellings. Their uniqueness is one reason that insuring island properties is more...
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Is Chamberlain’s Famous War Horse Secretly Buried on This Tiny Maine Island?
By Mary PolsFrom our June 2023 Island Issue Crow Island is a scrap of an island, three acres tucked into the farthest reaches of Middle Bay, not a half mile off the Brunswick peninsula called...
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Maine’s Best Bars for Watching Sturgeon Jump
By Scot McFarlane and John LichterFrom our April 2023 Animals issue Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon outlived the dinosaurs, surviving in the waters of what would become Maine, where their progeny were...
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It’s Lights Out for Maine’s Last Resident Lighthouse Keepers
By Adrienne PerronPhotographed by Tara RiceFrom our June 2023 Island Issue It should have been a normal day for the lighthouse keepers on Goat Island. The weather was clear, they’d been keeping up...
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Sam Hayward Came to Appledore Island a Bassist. He Left a Chef.
By Will GrunewaldFrom our June 2023 Island Issue The James Beard Foundation named Sam Hayward the best chef in the Northeast. Critics hailed him as the East Coast’s answer to Alice Waters, who...
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How the Negro Islands Became Esther and Emanuel
By Florence EdwardsFrom our June 2023 Island Issue The long drive to Castine from Portland puts me in a headspace where the present collides with the past. The sun is warm and bright; the car hums...
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Buy This Issue! Features Do Go Chasing Waterfalls From roadside chutes to backcountry cascades, tiny slides to dramatic plunges, here’s where to find our favorite falls. by Adrienne Perron and Brian...
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A Quiet Maine Island With a Billion-Year-Old Secret
By Laura PoppickPhotographed by Jacob Bond HesslerFrom our June 2023 Island Issue When rain falls across the middle of Maine, it slides into rocky brooks that flow into narrow creeks that meet in the...
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8 Maine Galleries and Studios to Visit This Summer
Artists have been attracted for centuries to Maine’s rugged and romantic landscape. Today is no different, with museums, galleries, and studios exhibiting artists who continue to use their craft to...
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After a Factory Fire, Gifford’s Ice Cream Avoids a Meltdown
By Will GrunewaldPhotos by Tara RiceFrom our July 2023 issue Maine makes lots of ice cream, but few of those ice creams rival the high-butterfat decadence of Gifford’s. The 43-year-old operation can...
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Can You Name This Rockbound Landmark?
It may now be one of New England’s most famous lighthouses, but the U.S. Lighthouse Board took almost 80 years to approve this beacon’s construction. Mariners had argued since the early 19th century...
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Freeport As part of a mental-health initiative, L.L.Bean posted photos of a campsite in a lush valley, overlaid with text that read “Off the Grid,” before shutting down its social-media feeds for an...
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The Maine International Film Festival Celebrates Its Biggest Premiere Yet
Waterville can seem a bit sleepy in the summer, with so many of its 4,000 resident college students packed up and gone, but it’s a veritable metropolis for 10 days every July, when as many as 10,000...
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New Tech Helps LifeFlight of Maine Save Lives
By Jesse EllisonIllustration by Matt RotaFrom our July 2023 issue The runway at the Machias Valley Airport is exactly 2,880 feet long, which leaves just enough asphalt for LifeFlight of Maine to land...
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Loose Ends Project Volunteers Finish the Work of Deceased Fiber Artists
By Adrienne PerronPhotos by Winky LewisFrom our July 2023 issue Masey Kaplan keeps a written log of every project she knits. She describes the pattern of the item she’s making and the materials she’s...
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