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Featured Maine Maker: Wilbur’s of Maine Chocolate Confections
With their chocolate moose pops and iconic lighthouse logo, Wilbur’s of Maine Chocolate Confections is probably one of the state’s most well-known home-grown brands. In 1983, long before downtown...
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Our Favorite Letter
OUR FAVORITE LETTERWhere in Maine? November 2018 Fort Foster PierPhotograph by Eric Gendron Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter...
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Your Island Awaits
Private islands don’t come cheap, even in Maine, but right now you can snag one — or three! — for less than you might pay for a condo on Portland’s peninsula. A few spots that bring the...
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The Chicken Shed
By Susan Hand Shetterly When I came to Maine in the early ’70s, the first room I wrote in was a tiny former chicken shed, set back in second-growth hardwoods, about a mile down Pond Road from Prospect...
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Twilight of the Diehards
By Brian Kevin Photographs by Chris Bennett Baxter State Park retires an age-old — and way-cold — tradition. Daryl Kelley won’t spend three frigid nights in a frost-covered tent in a Millinocket...
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Still Life
The still maker has become the distiller: Jesse Lupo’s new booze line includes cinnamon, toasted coconut, and sweet tea cordials. Photograph by Mark Mccall. Jesse Lupo started Trident Stills nine...
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Last Stand
Wabanaki basketmakers try to save our state’s ash trees — and their traditional craft — from the emerald ash borer. By Philip Kiefer Photographs courtesy of the Abbe Museum To Wabanaki basketmakers,...
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Glass Act
A beginner’s lesson in the dance of glassblowing at Montville’s award-winning “micro-enterprise.” By Jesse Ellison Photographs by Molly Haley David Jacobson warns people who sign up for his workshops...
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The Mountain Room
Slow-braised oxtail on sourdough toast; chef/owner Harding Lee Smith; libations on the deck; a bar with a view; grilled cheese and tomato soup; “poutine” with crispy pig-head terrine instead of French...
View ArticleCold Comfort
A family-friendly South Portland bungalow What’s more invigorating than a shvitz in a backyard sauna? How about sweating it out between an icy dip in Casco Bay and a roll in the snow? “Oh, it’s...
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14 Winter Weekend Getaways
OH, YOU THOUGHT THIS WAS THE OFF-SEASON? WITH INCREDIBLE (AND AFFORDABLE) WINTER WEEKEND GETAWAYS IN EVERY CORNER OF THE STATE, MAINE DOESN'T HIBERNATE — AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU.WINTER WEEKEND...
View ArticlePunchy Program
January is a big month for the PSO, from a conductorial debut to a world premiere to kid-friendly shows. By Will Grunewald This time last year, the Portland Symphony Orchestra was in the late stages of...
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In the Moment
The zeitgeisty show has a little of everything. Pictured: Eleanor Kipping’s Strange Fruit (installation). At the CMCA Biennial, a snapshot of Maine’s buzzing arts scene. An arch of bent ladders spans...
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Tooling Around
Portlander Nate Barr, founder of Zootility, designs ingenious pocket-size implements as fun as they are useful. Barr funded production of the original PocketMonkey with help from a Kickstarter campaign...
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Figure Study
Two years ago, Freeport artist Abigail Gray Swartz adapted an iconic wartime image to create a totem of 21st-century feminism. Now, she’s out to remix whole cityscapes with ambitious monuments to...
View ArticleBartered Organs! Tiny Schooners!
Experts evaluate these and other local treasures in the latest installment of our appraisal series. “I bought this ship at an auction. I was told an old-timer somewhere Down East carved it. Can you...
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My Favorite Place
Susan Conley Water Cove, Phippsburg When Susan Conley was a teenager washing dishes at Phippsburg’s Sebasco Lodge, she would have laughed if you’d told her she’d be living and raising kids in Maine as...
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Bisquey Move
One of Maine’s most accomplished chefs ditched his knife set for a camera and wound up creating a visual feast of a book about soups. When Derek Bissonnette was 16, he landed his first kitchen gig, at...
View ArticleOceans 7
Frigid waters, jellyfish hordes, riptides, and things that go bump in the night — nothing has stopped sexagenarian Westbrook aqua-woman Pat Gallant-Charette on her quest to beat marathon swimming’s...
View ArticleEncore Entrepreneurs
Seniors who want to start a second career find a wealth of opportunity and support in Maine. When industrial designer David Hulbert moved from Brooklyn to Maine at age 58, he had no intention of...
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