Clik here to view.
Wendell Gilley, Bird Carver
By John H. BuchananFrom our October 1976 issue Wendell Gilley of Southwest Harbor is a near-legend among admirers of carved birds. Over a period of 35 years, he has produced more than 6,000 carvings,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Maine’s Largest Resident-Owned Mobile-Home Park Came to Be
By Jaed CoffinFrom our April 2025 issue Since 1954, the family that owned Linnhaven Mobile Home Park, in Brunswick, had a reputation for running a tight ship. The park developed in a desirable spot, a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Two Centuries of Selling the Basics in Eastport
By Charlie PikePhotos courtesy of S.L. Wadsworth & SonFrom our April 2025 issue In 1632, having set sail from England, William Wadsworth stepped off the Lyon and onto the docks in Boston. He would...
View ArticleHow to Build a Well-Rounded Investment Portfolio
Bath Savings Trust Company president Tom Whelan got his first job in the banking industry right after graduating from Colby College and has worked in his current role leading the local investment...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Everything’s Squared Away in Betsey Telford-Goodwin’s Antique-Quilt Shop
By Sara Anne DonnellyPhotos by Dave WaddellFrom our April 2025 Home & Garden issue Betsey Telford-Goodwin didn’t know much about quilts when an acquaintance in Massachusetts asked her to hunt...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jennica Harris Loves Her Chickens, So She Built Them a Tricked-Out Home
By Charlie PikePhotos by Dave WaddellFrom our April 2025 Home & Garden issue A chorus of a few dozen clucking, crowing chickens, housed in wood-and-mesh-metal pounds, constantly echoes through...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How 8 Adventurous Homeowners Live Off the Grid in Maine
By Sarah StebbinsFrom our April 2025 issue In Maine, large swaths of untouched land, coupled with a strong Yankee independent streak, have lured generations of hardy souls to build homes off the grid....
View ArticleClik here to view.
An Expert on Oakland’s Tool-Making Past, Howard Hardy Has Many Axes to Grind
By Sara Anne DonnellyPhotos by Dave WaddellFrom our April 2025 issue A little over 30 years ago, Howard Hardy visited a cousin who was chopping wood with an axe he said was made in Oakland....
View ArticleHow to Increase Your Yard’s Biodiversity
Ellsworth native Zac Smith-Hess is an entomologist and educator who taught at schools, zoos, and aquariums around the country before joining the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens staff in 2022. There,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Squirrel Island’s First Hundred Years
By Edith H. WheelerFrom our July 1971 issue When I was a child, Squirrel Island was another name for heaven, with the blue sky overhead and the blue sea all around it. From 1878, when I was an infant...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Caribou’s Kevin McCartney Presses His Case For Elevating a Humble Household Tool
By Sara Anne DonnellyPhotos by Dave WaddellFrom our April 2025 issue On episode 54 of the YouTube series “Kevin Talks Irons,” Kevin McCartney and a few friends try lighting an 1898 gasoline clothes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A (Pool) Party with The Barn Yard
After 25 years living in New York City, Alex Cass, his wife, and their two children, ages 9 and 12, left Brooklyn for a seven-acre property in the small rural town of Roxbury, Connecticut. “We were...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt
How to Play 1. Plan of attack. If this scavenger hunt simply inspires you to check out a few new things here or there over the course of the next several months, you probably don’t need much of a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Colorful Old Bottles Fill Dave Copp With Joy
By Sara Anne Donnelly Photos by Dave Waddell From our April 2025 Home & Garden issue According to Dave Copp, May 10, 1968 was “the best day I ever had in my life.” He was 12 years old, and a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Meredithe Stuart-Smith’s Favorite Maine Place
By Sarah Stebbins From our April 2025 Home & Garden Issue When Meredithe Stuart-Smith wants to show her English colleagues how Americans celebrate holidays, she often pulls up photos of the Fourth...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Mainer Has Reinvented the Humble Garden Hoe
By Will GrunewaldPhotos by Kody TheriaultFrom our April 2025 issue Since time immemorial, the humble hoe has been an essential implement of agriculture (and, consequently, civilization). Both the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Introducing Maine’s First Pro Soccer Team
By Charlie PikeFrom our May 2025 issue Long before the Portland Hearts of Pine, Maine’s first professional soccer club, kicked off its inaugural season in March, fans were showing their love. Last...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Can You Name This Maine Mountain?
From our May 2025 issue A century ago, William Blackman, a surgeon from New York, stood atop this peak and admired the 16-foot stone lookout tower he’d erected. On a nearby boulder, he inscribed the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
May 2025
Buy This Issue! Features Great Maine Scavenger Hunt Twenty-eight excursions all across the state, from classical concerts to mountain sunrises to roadside doughnuts, that add up to one fun-filled...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cheryl Staples Sees the World Through Rose-Colored (and Green and Blue) Glasses
By Sara Anne DonnellyPhotos by Dave WaddellFrom our April 2025 Home & Garden issue During a trip to Bar Harbor in the mid ’90s, Cheryl Staples spotted a chunk of sea glass shining like a sapphire...
View Article