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A friendship that reaches across generations is too rare a thing — and its lessons are too valuable to ignore. By Paul Doiron Photo by Mark Fleming Dr. Joseph Marshall died recently — he was 94 years...
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Cheap Eats
A buzzy place where you need a reservation is all fine and good, but some of Maine’s best chow requires no silverware. What follows are the finest offerings in the 11 primary food groups of Maine...
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Old Tricks
Portland’s Tricky Britches channels a classic bluegrass sound — sans porkpie hats. Now that we’re 16 years into the bluegrass and old-time “revival” prompted by the soundtrack to the 2000 Coen brothers...
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Monument Cove
Buy this Special Collector’s Edition to get all 100 Tips, Secrets, and Ways to Love Maine’s Classic National Park! It took centuries of storm waves to hew Monument Cove’s namesake pillar from the...
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Penobscot Bay Food Cruise
We teamed up with the schooners Stephen Taber and Ladona to offer our readers an unforgettable week of food and sailing. Below are some of the images. Penobscot Bay Food CruiseJuly 17–22, 2016 Join us...
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August 2016
Editor’s Note by Kathleen Fleury Expand to read When you write about place the way that we do, month to month, year to year, you can’t help having some big, existential questions about what makes this...
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Artist Profile: Matthew Russ
Penobscot Bay from Bald Rock Mountain #5, 20˝ x 40˝, oil on panel Photographed by Geoff Nickerson Whether he’s painting Casco Bay or Penobscot Bay, plein-air painter Matthew Russ’ oil landscapes...
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Endless Summer
The lake is ever ready, the pace is undemanding, and one day folds softly into the next. This is Kezar. By Virginia M. Wright Photographed by Carl Tremblay Around Kezar Lake, a preference for quiet...
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Our 12 Favorite Maine Swimming Holes
Above photo by Heather Perry. You won’t find them in a tourism pamphlet, and no smartphone app will lead you there: Our 12 favorite Maine swimming holes are little heralded and sparsely visited, sylvan...
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Room With a View
By Franklin Burroughs The first significant room with a view was a childhood bedroom. That was more than threescore years ago, on the eastern seaboard about a thousand miles south of Bowdoinham, where...
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The Last Full Measure
Gettysburg bites the dust in Brunswick. After two days of brutal fighting at Gettysburg, casualties have overwhelmed the medical tent. Surgeons in bloodstained frocks treat an endless stream of the...
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Kayaking the Porcupines
Buy this Special Collector’s Edition! This chain of four evergreen-spiked islands in Frenchman Bay is a short paddle from the village of Bar Harbor. Watch for seals, porpoises, guillemots, and nesting...
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Clean Sweep
By Jesse Ellison Photographed by David Yellen Elle Logan rowed in Beijing and London and won gold both times. This summer in Rio, she tries to make it three for three. So why haven’t you heard of...
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Artist Profile: R. Scott Baltz
Gold Blue Broken, 24˝ x 30˝, oil on panel R. Scott Baltz R. Scott Baltz first came to Maine in the 1980s as a photographer looking for new landscapes. He found inspiration on Mount Desert Island,...
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Legendary Scoops
Above: The Gifford’s Ice Cream dynasty, from left: Roger Gifford, JC Gifford, Lindsay Skilling, Ryan Porter, Samantha Gifford, and John Gifford. Bolstered by a solid foundation and a newly expanded...
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The Definitive Oral History of the Lobster Roll
Written by Brian Kevin Photographed by Nina Gallant Styled by Monica Mariano IT WASN’T ALWAYS MAINE’S MARQUEE FOODSTUFF. How did a humble hot dog bun crammed with the simplest of ingredients manage to...
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Pig + Poet
The Menu The renovated Whitehall Inn, where poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was “discovered” in 1912, reopened with a splash last year by putting celebrity chef Sam Talbot in the kitchen of its...
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Roadkill Hotspots
One of the first roadside landmarks after crossing into Maine on I-95 is a big, yellow moose-crossing sign — though the location suggests that it’s there more to delight tourists than to warn everyday...
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The Definitive Oral History of the Lobster Roll
Written by Brian Kevin Photographed by Nina Gallant Styled by Monica Mariano IT WASN’T ALWAYS MAINE’S MARQUEE FOODSTUFF. How did a humble hot dog bun crammed with the simplest of ingredients manage to...
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The Language That He Used
Can Robert Indiana, a mainstay of the 1960’s Pop Art movement, give new life to Bob Dylan’s lyrics some 50 years later? Robert Indiana wowed the Pop Art world in 1966 when he stacked an L and a tilted...
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