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A Wiscasset DIYer’s Thrifty Renovations Look Like a Million Bucks
By Sara Anne DonnellyPhotos by Jaymi PoorFrom our January 2025 issue As a teenager, Jaymi Poor painted her bedroom walls in eye-popping shades of hot pink, safety orange, highlighter yellow, and...
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For a Group of Winter Sailors, Racing Tiny Vessels Is a Pretty Big Deal
By Sarah StebbinsPhotos by Aliza EliazarovFrom our January 2025 issue On a raw, overcast afternoon last winter, members of Mostly Maine Frosty Fleet No. 9 arrived in the parking lot of the Kittery...
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This Maine Company Knows the Science of Warm Hands
By Joel CrabtreePhotos by Kody TheriaultFrom our January 2025 issue Photo courtesy of Mainers On a camping trip in 1979, Ted and Laura Sweeney, a Massachusetts couple, fell in love with Acadia...
View Article5 Outdoor Dining Spots in Maine to Visit This Winter
Maine residents and visitors have never let cold, snow, and ice keep them from enjoying the adventures winter provides. Traditionally, a day of skiing, sledding, and skating was followed by warming up...
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Maine’s Last Hand-Crank Telephone Company
Text and Photos by Glenn RichmondFrom our April 1972 issue Every time the telephone rings in Bryant Pond, it’s a crank call. That doesn’t mean all the town’s 300 telephone subscribers are displeased...
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A Georgia Transplant Brings the Region’s Hearty, Down-Home Fare to Camden
By Brian KevinPhotos by Nicole WolfFrom our January 2025 issue Until chef Suzanne Vizethann showed up, the only thing southern about downtown Camden was the orientation of the traffic jam on summer...
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3 Maine Ice Bars to Chill at This Winter
By Will GrunewaldFrom our January 2025 issue Every winter brings ice bars to Maine, although the lineup tends to ebb and flow. One year, an ice bar pops up here. The next, maybe it doesn’t, but some...
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A Maine Mother’s Crochetwear Raises Money for the Cancer Program That...
Audrey Mahlman, pictured with her daughter, Olive (seated at left), and her friends in Mahlman’s crocheted hats. Following in her mom’s footsteps, Olive sells homemade candles and donates the proceeds...
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The Best Sledding Hills in Every Maine County
By Jennifer HazardFrom our February 2022 issue Cumberland When it’s freshly groomed, the free hill at New Gloucester’s Pineland Farms (15 Farm View Dr.; 207-688-6599) is the silkiest ride for miles,...
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February 2025
Buy This Issue! Features The Write Stuff Maine boasts the country’s second most bookstores per capita, and we asked some notable Maine writers — Stephen King and Lois Lowry, among others — where they...
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UNE Researchers Hope to Crack the Mystery of Rare, Whimsically Colorful Lobsters
By Charlie PikeFrom our January 2025 issue On a recent morning at the University of New England’s marine-science center, in Biddeford, Peaches the lobster was in a prickly mood, scurrying backward and...
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Can You Name This Galactically Cool Educational Display in Maine?
From our February 2025 issue This ringed sculpture landed on Earth more than two decades ago, one small part of a sprawling educational display dreamed up by a geology professor and brought into...
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My Final Days on the Maine Coast
By Joseph MonningerPhotos by Cig HarveyFrom our February 2025 issue A bald eagle visits me every day. I have learned to recognize his voice as he approaches, a querulous complaint against the crows...
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7 Maine-Made Cards for Your Valentine
By Adrienne Perron & Sarah StebbinsFrom our February 2022 & February 2025 issues Light Up My Life Scarborough-based Courtney Andrews’s card collection is cute and punny, and this “You Light Up...
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An All-Female Snow-Sculpting Team Is Carving Out a Niche
By Bridget M. BurnsPhotos by Tara RiceFrom our February 2025 issue On a bitterly cold, bluebird afternoon last winter, a trio of women in matching blaze-orange parkas gathered at Quarry Road Trails,...
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A Brief History of Maine’s Interconnected Trail System
By Joel CrabtreePhotos by Paul CyrFrom our January 2025 issue Tom Nelson remembers when, in the mid-1960s, his Uncle Bus became the first snowmobile owner in the Piscataquis County town of...
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Skiers Are Flocking to Saddleback’s New Restaurant, The Nest
By Nora SaksPhotos by Cait BourgaultFrom our February 2025 issue For decades, Saddlebackers have shared their mountain with the Bicknell’s thrush. Skiers arrive after the rare brown-and-white...
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A Novice’s Guide to Ice Climbing in Maine
By Charlie PikePhotos by Corey FitzgeraldFrom our January 2025 issue Noah Kleiner, an American Mountain Guides Association certified ice instructor, founded the Camden-based Equinox Guiding Service in...
View ArticleHow to Plan for Your Grandchildren’s Financial Future
Becoming a grandparent is a milestone when many adults start to consider how they can help secure their grandchildren’s future. At Golden Pond Wealth Management, financial planner Katie Brann helps...
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An Artist’s Lovell Cottage Came With Some Unwanted Guests
By Sarah Stebbins Photos by Sean Littlefield From our February 2025 issue Shortly after moving into her Lovell fixer-upper, in 2017, Kimberly Crichton realized she was not alone. The 1920s cottage had...
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