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Fixer-Upper
SoPo Cottage’s Laurel LaBauve refurbishes old houses in South Portland to resell — but don’t call her a flipper. On a recent drizzly afternoon, we found Laurel LaBauve wrapping up a bathroom-tiling...
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The Fairy Queen
Liza Gardner Walsh assembles the fairy kits for gardens, houses, and potions using natural items she’s collected herself: mosses, flower petals, seashells, seaglass, acorn caps, and feathers. Chris...
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First Taste of Spring
FIRST TASTE OF SPRINGWelcome spring with with pesto, pasta, and greens. BY ANNEMARIE AHEARN MARK FLEMING This story originally appeared in our April 2016 issue. A bowlful of greens cleanses the mind...
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Food Truck Fridays
We’re opening up our historic building in Rockport to our beloved readers and friends! Join us for Down East inspired afternoons of food and fun. Food trucks will be open all afternoon with live...
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Steep Thoughts
Steep ThoughtsSimon van der Ven made this tea set for a friend, who wanted a one-of-a-kind Christmas gift for his wife. He fashioned the stand from a cherry burl found near his Lincolnville studio....
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The Cure
By Will Grunewald Photographs by Molly Haley Matthew Secich worked in some of the country’s most gourmet, most stressful kitchens, bouncing discontentedly from one high-profile gig to the next. Now,...
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6 Maine Tiny Homes
Six homeowners find big-time pleasure in their tiny homes in Maine. By Cynthia Anderson Photographed by Irvin Serrano This article originally appeared in the April 2016 issue. Pint-Size Pre-Fab Natural...
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The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt: Outdoors
The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt: Outdoors Sponsored by CLYNK Click Here to Learn How to Play From the trail to the taproom to the tidal pool, from the lake to the lunch counter to the lobster shack, let...
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Up North, Early May
I’d rather be Up North. — bumper sticker, indigenous to Maine, typically encountered on thoroughly used pickup trucks Up North, in the true canoe country, early May is to canoe-tripping what...
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Greenhouse Effect
By Lorry Fleming Photograph by Cait Bourgault It’s nearly impossible not to feel good in Luke and Sarah Cellier’s passive-solar home above the Back River in Georgetown. Bright, airy, and filled with...
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Tea at Chimney
TEA AT CHIMNEY ~ FROM OUR ARCHIVES ~ A visit with Elizabeth Coatsworth at the storybook farm where she and Henry Beston shared their lives for forty years.By Sabra Morton Photographs by Tom Jones...
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4 Secret Maine Beaches
Find your new favorite Maine beach. This originally appeared in our May 2015 issue. Everyone has a different idea of the perfect Maine summer — one man’s breezy beach day is another’s mountain climb...
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3 Neat Things We Encountered in the Making of Our May Issue
1. The Digital Maine archive of Maine Fish and Wildlife mag, produced by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife from 1959 to 2011. The magazine often published work by the heroes of...
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Walking in Solitude
When hiking in Maine the biggest reward is not always at the summit. By Virginia M. Wright Photographed by Michael Wilson This originally appeared in our May 2015 issue. It’s shortly before 8 a.m....
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Who You Gonna Call?
Maine’s YouTube paranormalists ain’t afraid of no ghosts. Photographs by Michael Strout On a recent chilly evening, ghost hunter Ty Gowen, of the web TV show Haunt ME, walked into the circa-1800...
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Air Bug
Lobster rolls anywhere, anytime. McLoons Lobster Shack, on Spruce Head Island, recently started selling mail-order lobster rolls — and crab rolls, lobster and crab meat, and live lobsters — via...
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Farnsworth Giveaway
THE FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUMSummer Tickets Giveaway Celebrating Maine’s role in American art, the Farnsworth Art Museum offers a nationally recognized collection of works from many of America’s greatest...
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Ben’s Picks: May 2018
BEN'S PICKSMay 2018 My first pick this month is this eye catching shot from Laura Zamfirescu.The fish seems to be resigned to its fate, swimming through the air as it were, and the osprey’s beautiful...
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Sweet Pea
Pinecone+Chickadee 6 Free St., Portland. 207-772-9280. And you thought the baby in your life couldn’t get any cuter! Amy Teh and Noah DeFilippis, the team behind Portland’s Pinecone+Chickadee clothing...
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The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt: Food & Drink
The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt: Food & Drink Sponsored by Cellardoor Winery Cover photo by Sara Fox Click Here to Learn How to Play From the trail to the taproom to the tidal pool, from the lake to...
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