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Ben’s Picks: Weekly(ish) Photo Faves
New Harbor PHOTOGRAPHED BY BENJAMIN WILLIAMSON June 26, 2020 It’s not always about the grand view. Finding more intimate vignettes can be satisfying, as was the case on the morning in New Harbor. Port...
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Growing Local
The Family Tree Forget lobster — no Maine natural resource has been as prized as the state’s eastern white pines. The towering trees helped attract European settlers in the 1600s, and by the time...
View ArticleJesse Labreck’s Favorite Maine Place
You don’t need to be a fan of NBC’s American Ninja Warrior to go slack-jawed at YouTube videos of Oakland native Jesse Labreck dominating the show’s torturous obstacle courses. In 2016, she was the...
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7 Islands You Don’t Need a Boat to Explore
By Will Grunewald No yacht? No problem. Sure, the Maine coastline alone has some 3,000 islands you can’t set foot on without a watercraft and some navigation skills, but many of New England’s best...
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Portland’s Strata Has the Sharpest Knives Around
By Sara Anne DonnellyPhotographed by Ryan David Brown The Owner A former head butcher at Portland’s popular Rosemont Market & Bakery, Evan Atwell is New England’s only professional Japanese...
View ArticleThey Took to the Coast
When stay-at-home orders were issued in March, Samantha Francis-Taylor yearned for a break from the relentless stress. Teaching high school English while tag-teaming with her husband to care for their...
View ArticleUpcycled Veggie Oil Can Light Your Camp Stove
By Will GrunewaldPhotographed by Cait Bourgault Brian Kennedy loves being in the backcountry — hiking in summer, snowboarding in winter — and it bothered him that the usual options for camp-stove fuel...
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Your Guide to Hiking the White and Green Mountains
By Carey Kish Any visitor to New England looking to escape to the mountains faces one major question: The Whites or the Greens? Both of the Northeast’s dominant ranges offer plenty of opportunities to...
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Not Quite Quittin’ Time
Rob and Marianne Barry in front of their new shop, Old and Everlasting. Heading into their 65th birthdays next year, Rob and Marianne Barry have done a lot of the downsizing you’d expect for people...
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What Mainers Talk About When They Talk About “Going Up To Camp”
North is merely a direction of travel. It can get you to Maine. But within Maine, up north signifies a destination: roughly the upper half of the state, an area bigger than Massachusetts. It contains...
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Out of the Classroom, Onto the Front Line
When Reed Norton became an emergency-room nurse last year, he was prepared to treat traumas ranging from heart attacks to car-crash injuries. He couldn’t have imagined that after a few months on the...
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The Most Stunning Maine Landscape Photos From Our Special Bicentennial Issue
#1 The Feeling of Crossing the Piscataqua River Bridge More than one writer has used the word love when describing the experience of coming into Maine, and during the dozen years in which we drove up...
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How to Make Bean-Hole Beans
Nowadays, baked beans come from a can, but in olden days, they more often came from a hole in the ground. One of many culinary practices that early New Englanders cribbed from Native Americans was the...
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The Sam Hayward Ripple Effect
By Michaela Cavallaro Even as a thought experiment, the idea is scary: imagine a world without Maine chef Sam Hayward, who cofounded Portland’s renowned Fore Street restaurant in 1996. The East Coast...
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Every “Bald Mountain” in Maine: A Concise Guide
By Virginia M. Wright Maine has a lot of bald mountains, their treeless, rocky summits yielding wide-open views. Maine also has a lot of Bald Mountains: 17 of them, according to the U.S. Geological...
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In Praise of Phone Mart
By Michael Burke Every weekday, three times a day, our local radio station here in western Maine pauses its parade of oldies and Top 40 hits. A series of peppy electronic beeps, like something out of...
View ArticleCan You Name This Maritime Landmark?
It took most of the 1880s and ’90s to build this immense granite barrier, which protects ships from storm-whipped waves and helped make the harbor behind it the East Coast’s fourth-busiest port around...
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There is Nothing Like a Lobsterboat Race
By Charlotte Wilder As a sports reporter, I’ve covered just about every big championship the sports world has to offer. But none come close to being as hardcore as the annual lobsterboat races in...
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8 Oddball Maine Museums
By Virginia M. Wright A successful roadside museum needs two things: a tourist-trafficked byway and somebody passionate and/or eccentric enough to collect a whole lot of something. Thankfully, Maine’s...
View ArticleAugust 2020
Features Best Places to Camp Twenty-five of our favorite spots for kindling a fire, rolling out a sleeping bag, and unwinding in the Maine outdoors. (And yes, for social distancing.) By the Down East...
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