I’m walking across the top of the historic Mill Pond dam, in Whiting village, admiring the beauty of the water rushing below, when Jacob van de Sande tells me the nearly 200-year-old stone structure ...
To the untrained eye, the town of Carrabassett Valley might not look like much of a town at all, author Virginia M. Wright points out at the start of A Town Built by Ski Bums: The Story of ...
At a stream in central Maine, guides handed out basic tools: a long wooden pole for pushing canoes through the shallow water, plus two short, thick sticks for collecting wild rice from the grasses ...
The 20th-anniversary release of Wilco’s seminal 2001 record Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is currently up two Grammys: Best Historical Album and Best Album Notes. An ideal winter midcoast day ends with a ...
The view from atop Fort Preble takes in Fort Gorges and South Portland’s spark-plug–style Spring Point Ledge Light. During the Civil War, soldiers from the fort chased down and took captive 23 ...
Elizabeth Smith suddenly became very animated during dinner at the Trailing Yew inn. “It would pain me not to have Monhegan. Just pain me.” Every day throughout the summer, the inn serves a communal ...
This time of year, interior designer Liz Kirby is as busy as an elf, recording Instagram reels featuring holiday-decorating tutorials and handsomely packaged gifts. Her workshop is the 1968 ...
More than 30 years later, the biologist who spearheaded the effort reflects on the challenges — and what might have been. “IN OCTOBER 1986, an ad hoc group invited me to the Augusta office of Glen ...
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 Bangor Auditorium ...
All-day surf sessions were one inspiration for Faherty's founders to create a quality, comfortable, and laid-back clothing line — perfect for slipping into after riding Maine's waves. Faherty clothing ...
Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, a decorated Army medic and Penobscot elder is keeping his history alive. Charles Norman Shay grew up on the Penobscot Nation’s Indian Island ...
The first time Gilbert Butler saw kayakers running a wild river, he was a young man visiting Maine. Even then, he was a capable outdoorsperson, fond of hiking and canoeing around his family home of ...
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