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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Acadia’s Brown Mountain Gatehouse Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from January’s photo. I certainly, with great fondness,...
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Restoring Maine’s Once-Vibrant Public Buildings
By Sarah StebbinsFrom our March 2024 issue In 1880, the prospect of a new auditorium in the town of Dover generated much enthusiasm. “We can build a hall to which we shall be pleased to invite friends...
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Crooked Face Creamery Takes Home One of the Dairy World’s Top Honors
By Nora SaksFrom our March 2024 issue During a lull at their booth at the Freedom Farmers’ Market last summer, cheesemaker Amy Rowbottom and her assistant, Erika Noone, began brainstorming new ricotta...
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The Wild and Woolly Life of a Maine Sheep Shearer
Photos by Greta RybusText by Will GrunewaldFrom our March 2024 issue In his early 20s, Jeff Burchstead worked on an organic farm along the down east coast. The farm had some sheep, and two local women...
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Albracca “A New England Elegance”
Situated on a 3 ½-acre lot, the site was once home to a 60-room hotel, fondly recalled as Hotel Albracca, which stood from 1891 until its tragic fire in 1927. With its proximity to both the York...
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Cait Shibles Is Cooking Up Something New at Camp Susan Curtis
By Joel CrabtreeFrom our March 2024 issue Cait Shibles was hired as the food-service manager at Camp Susan Curtis, in 2014, and her first order of business was simple. For years, the quality of what...
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Restoring Kennebunk’s Wedding Cake House Is No Piece of Cake
By Sara Anne DonnellyFrom our March 2024 issue The first time Florida contractor Hunt Edwards poked around the landmark Wedding Cake House on Kennebunk’s Summer Street, in 2019, he was horrified. “I...
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A Kittery Photographer Unleashes Two Years’ Worth of Dog Portraits
By Nora SaksPhotos by Aliza EliazarovFrom our March 2024 issue Photographer Aliza Eliazarov For Kittery photographer Aliza Eliazarov, finding subjects for her new book of dog portraits was a walk in...
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Deer Isle’s Memorial Ambulance Corps Is a Case Study in Community Paramedicine
By Nora SaksPhotos by Dave WaddellFrom our March 2024 issue Dennis Eaton, an 82-year-old Deer Isle native, army veteran, and lobsterman, started having trouble managing his diabetes and back pain...
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Kevin Hawkes’s Favorite Maine Place
By Sarah Stebbins From our March 2024 issue Growing up the son of an Air Force comptroller, children’s-book illustrator Kevin Hawkes lived all over the world. But it was a stint in Châteauroux,...
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Death Becomes a Scarborough Artist’s Lifelike Birds
By Sara Anne DonnellyPhotos by Nicole Davis From our March 2024 issue During the last months of his life, in 2007, as cancer sapped his strength, taxidermist Eino Kivisalu taught his daughter his...
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These Maine-Made Wares Are a Chip Off the Old Quilt Block
By Sarah StebbinsPhotos by Tara RiceFrom our March 2024 issue 1. Wooden Quilt A little over a year ago, Maine College of Art & Design student Olivia Van Oot had the idea to translate the pieced...
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Mount Desert Island Is Home to Maine’s First Electric School Bus
In 2021, Mount Desert Island High School purchased and deployed the first electric school bus in Maine. Many students and parents in the community advocated for the project, and a Maine Department of...
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Buy This Issue! Features Small World In an era of sky-high housing and construction costs, it’s little wonder some Mainers are seeing the appeal of a tinier abode. We caught up with six homeowners who...
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Can You Name This Anchor of Maine’s Seafaring Past?
From our April 2024 Home & Garden issue Plenty of other old captain’s houses are in the neighborhood — a couple of hundred years ago, a whopping 10 percent of all deepwater captains in the U.S....
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Seed Libraries Are Sprouting Up Around the Pine Tree State
By Nora Saks From our April 2024 Home & Garden issue Among the study tables and the stacks of books and the periodical reading rooms, at public libraries from North Berwick to Milbridge to Bangor,...
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Home Remedies Inspires Living Areas That Are Lasting and Loved
When Rachel Ambrose was a young adult, her father, a lifelong basement woodworker, left his corporate job to start a furniture company with her mother. “It made me realize I liked the making of...
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In South Portland, the Lamp Repair Shop Shines a Light on the Artistry of Old...
By Sara Anne DonnellyPhotos by Michael D. WilsonFrom our April 2024 Home & Garden issue As a child, Brian Allen idolized Caractacus Potts, Dick Van Dyke’s eccentric inventor in the 1968 film...
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Lake & Co.’s Meals Make a Night In Feel Like a Night Out
By Will Grunewald Photos by Nicole WolfFrom our April 2024 issue The table setting was pretty darn lovely — a light-gray runner draped diagonally, beneath a small vase of yellow and white tulips and a...
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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Park Row, Brunswick Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from February’s photo. My mother, Jane Senter, was born and grew up at...
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