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The Wild West End

Life goes on, but my old Portland neighborhood defies progress.

By Elizabeth Peavey

A Legacy of Lilacs

One whiff of these living antiques is all it takes to recapture the past.

By Rebecca Sawyer-Fay, Photography by Lynn Karlin

Troubled Waters

Poland Spring's expansion plans have driven a wedge through western Maine.

By Virginia Wright

A Path of Fish

The alewife runs in Patten Stream are a shadow of what they once were, but they still have the power to awe.

By Susan Hand Shetterly

The Ten-Mile Extension Cord

Maintaining a traditional way of life on Vinalhaven requires a modern connection to the mainland.

By Joshua F. Moore, Photography by Kip Brundage

Grand Lake Dream

A million acres along the New Brunswick border have been protected for posterity. So how come no one noticed?

By Wayne Curtis, Photography by Benjamin Magro

Madame Chief Justice

Leigh Saufley thought she was going to law school to learn how to change the world. Instead, she is changing the world of law.

By Jeff Clark, Photography by David A. Rodgers

Getting Outside in May

Mainers can enjoy the return of fair weather in any number of ways.

Editor's Note

By Paul Doiron

Inside Maine

By Paul Doiron

A Soldier's Son

That spring we all lived in the shadow of a distant, but approaching, conflict.

By John E. Hodgkins

North by East

Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine

Table of Contents

Rethinking the Civic Center

Bath's New Urban Pioneers

Will the City of Ships become the City of Condos?

By Jeff Clark

Ironclad Defense

During the Spanish-American War the U.S. Navy did indeed remember Maine.

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