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February 2017
Buy this issue! Editor’s Note by Kathleen Fleury Expand To Read We editors spend a lot of time thinking about stories. In an ever-changing and more competitive media market, what stories we tell — and...
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Our Favorite Letter
Where in Maine? December 2016 The venue is Bass Harbor in Bernard and the lobster pound the venerable Thurston’s, where generations have gathered to dine on the Quiet Side. It took my family 60 years...
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Maine Summer Camps
This listing represents all organized children’s camps in the state of Maine that are members of Maine Summer Camps, the public face of the nonprofit Maine Youth Camping Foundation (MYCF). More...
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The Bloody Business
How a physician’s assistant in Bridgton became Stephen King’s Hippocrates of horror. Inside a Biddeford bookstore on a chilly afternoon, Russ Dorr glances down at a display table and taps a finger on...
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2017 Down East Reader Photo Contest
Once again, we asked this year for you to send us the photos that best represent your personal vision of Maine — and, man, did you ever respond. Readers submitted more than 1,500 photographs across...
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Cold Frontier
Hard by the Canadian border, the winters are long, the woods are impenetrable, and the roads are lonely. And that’s the way folks in the flinty little town of Jackman like it. By Carrie Braman...
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Best of Maine 2017 – Readers Choice
Votes must be submitted by May 8, 2017. Winners will be announced in our July issue. Having trouble seeing the survey? Try viewing it here. The post Best of Maine 2017 – Readers Choice appeared first...
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Unlikely Impresarios
Two college kids create a full-blown musical — you know, in their spare time. By Will Grunewald Last winter, Colby students Katie Monteleone and Josua Lutian started making up show tunes together — as...
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Ida and Her Island
By Mary Cushman Illustration by Christine Mitchell Adams As a kid, I was afraid of Ida. And small wonder: stout and tall, with big hands and a severe face, she was every inch the forbidding Yankee...
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What’s In a Picture
Before modern refrigeration, the ice harvest on freshwater ponds was a staple of Maine winters. Local ice went to use in homes, on fishing boats, and, of course, in making ice cream. Most icehouses...
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Haystack
Built with straw bales, a Mount Desert Island home is practical, energy efficient, and beautiful. By Joel Crabtree Photographed by Jared Kuzia Meredith Randolph broke the news to her new husband,...
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What is Sunaana?
Bold and cold! Sunaana is a winter festival created to embrace the time of year when the days are short and the nights are long. The experience is a unique and groundbreaking mix of emerging musicians...
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Healers in the Sky
Suit up for a ride-along with LifeFlight of Maine, one of the country’s most elite air medical teams — and one of Maine’s most critical nonprofit enterprises. By Jesse Ellison Photographed by Gabe...
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Salt Pine Social
Salt Pine Social 244 Front St., Bath 207-442-8345, saltpinesocial.com By Joe Ricchio Photographed by Douglas Merriam After spending 13 years focused on Mexican food at El Camino, her beloved...
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Aw, Shucks!
Chocolate truffles and heart-shaped candies are for amateurs — true romantics know that oysters make the best Valentine’s Day treat. Jury’s out on whether the briny filter feeders actually possess...
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From our Archives February 1998
Mush Ado About Something See more from this issue! Cover photo by Richard Giguere. From “Dog Days in Fort Kent,” by Elizabeth Peavey, in our February 1998 issue. As I approach the fringes of town, I...
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A Q&A with The Stranger in the Woods author Michael Finkel
For 27 years, Christopher Knight lived alone in a clandestine wooded camp in tiny Rome, undiscovered and unaided, breaking into camps to steal what he needed to survive. When he was finally captured...
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Sheets, Shoots, & Leaves
A new compendium shows off the archival illustrations of Kate Furbish, Maine’s swashbuckling Victorian botanist. Virginia rose – Rosa virginiana Furbish found this specimen in 1876 in Brunswick, where...
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Room With a View
By Franklin Burroughs We began keeping chickens soon after we came to Maine about half a century ago. Over the years, we’ve lost a lot to predators, mostly raccoons. We never see them, only the...
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Where in Maine?
Can you name the village where this wharf awaits the return of lobster-mad tourists? You wouldn’t know it now, but this weathered wharf is the second-biggest attraction in a long and narrow island...
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