Maine News You May Have Missed
Waterford On the Fourth of July, Oxford County residents felt a rumbling that wasn’t from fireworks — the U.S. Geological Survey recorded a magnitude 2.1 earthquake, a baby quake on the nation’s...
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In Search of the Old Home Place
Turning the corner at Crow Point and making a right into the mouth of Brookings Bay, I’m aware of a sudden quiet. I’m paddling a kayak deep inside the furrowed pleats of the midcoast, alongside my...
View ArticleWonderful Things
By Susan Hand Shetterly My 5-year-old grandson caught an elver in the stream behind his house. He cupped it in his hands, and his whole being lit up with concern and wonder. Concern because he hoped...
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Can You Name This Magnificent Maine Waterway?
Along this magnificent 92-mile river are countless remnants of Maine’s 19th- and early-20th-century logging industry, from tools and machinery left along the banks to riverside camps where woodsmen...
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The Conflicted Nostalgia of Growing Up in a Maine Mill Town
Stream an excerpt from Mill Town, courtesy of Macmillan Audio. When Kerri Arsenault was growing up in Mexico, Maine, nothing loomed larger than the Rumford paper mill across the Androscoggin River,...
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13 Pieces of Maine-Made Gear for Your Outdoor Summer
Venturing into great outdoor spaces, Leon Leonwood Bean wrote in his 1942 guide, Hunting, Fishing and Camping, “teaches us to forget the mean and petty things of life.” Boy, do we ever need that...
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5 Cute Maine-Made Masks
By Rachel SladePhotographed by Mark Fleming Even before the state’s mask mandate went into effect, Maine’s cottage handcrafters and textile ninjas jumped into action, turning out an impressive variety...
View ArticleThe Maine Ice Cream Trail Has the Scoop on Scoops
By Will Grunewald Congratulations are in order for Bar Harbor, the ice-cream capital of Maine, a state where frozen dairy is a bit of an obsession. The Maine Ice Cream Trail, a new online directory,...
View ArticleMaine Drive-Ins Ride Again
By Will GrunewaldPhotographed by Irvin Serrano Seventy years ago this summer, when the Bangor Drive-In opened on the outskirts of town, Queen City moviegoers rolled up en masse in wood-paneled station...
View Article2020 Vision at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art
By Will Grunewald Early Days: In the 1890s, Charles Woodbury started selling paintings in his Ogunquit studio. Soon, his reputation flourished, and he founded a summer school that turned the town into...
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Best of Maine 2020
FOOD & DRINK SHOPPING & LIFESTYLE TRAVEL & PLAY ARTS & CULTURE HOME & GARDEN More readers than ever took our annual Readers’ Choice poll this year. First, they nominated their...
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The COVID Cruise Ship and the Maine Fishing Town
By Jaed Coffin | Photographed by Ryan David Brown One sunny afternoon in late July, 12-year-old Zachary Wallace stood on a float beneath the Eastport pier, fishing for mackerel. To one side of him,...
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Abdi Nor Iftin’s Favorite Maine Place
Nearly every summer morning, before most alarm clocks sound, Abdi Nor Iftin heads out to sneak in a hike along the rolling trails of New Gloucester’s Big Falls Preserve. He finds refuge there, away...
View ArticleBog Brook Cove is Maine’s Coast at its Most Pristine
From the craggy ledges along the Chimney Trail at Bog Brook Cove Preserve, you can see humpback whales breaching offshore, the green silhouette of Grand Manan, and a coastline strewn with secluded...
View ArticleFarewell, My Lovelies!
By Susan Hand Shetterly I have cribbed this title from E. B. White, who wrote an essay of the same name about the Model T Ford. It is an exemplar of gentle wit and craft that gives a reader a sense of...
View ArticleWhere in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Onawa Trestle Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from June’s photo. “That is Onawa Lake. I know because I was born there in...
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The Circular Logic of Boynton-McKay
By Will Grunewald Brian Beggarly and Todd Bross had big plans earlier this year. Beggarly, chef-owner of Boynton-McKay, was going to spin off a taco food truck. Bross, the baker at the snug Camden...
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Georgetown and Phippsburg: “More Maine Than Maine”
Photographed by Benjamin Williamson | Text by Anne Witty Dawn cracks a reddened eye in the east, then closes it with a blink of cloud. Gray sky fades into sea, the still water amplifying stray...
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All Food is Street Food
By Joe Ricchio | photographed by Heidi Kirn In early March, I didn’t grasp the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic or the impact it would have on the many restaurants I love. I suspect I wasn’t...
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Forty Years Ago, Some Mainers Called Bull on the Moose Hunt
By Rob Sneddon It was a scene that Norman Rockwell might have set. On a summer night in 1980, a kerchief-clad member of Brewer’s Cub Scout Pack 11 walked across a sparsely furnished stage at the...
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