Features
15 Small Town Getaways
Fifteen great escapes off the beaten trail.
Maine’s First Lady of Gardening
Karen Baldacci has given Augusta another attraction: the Blaine House gardens.
- By: Rebecca Martin Evarts
How to Walk
One Mainer’s Manifesto.
- By: Paul Mann
The Lure of Lakewood
For more than 150 years a lodge on Lower Richardson Lake has offered vacationers the perfect Rangeley-region retreat.
- By: Kristen Lindquist
Hometown Heroes
After Sanford’s Goodall Park burned to the ground more than a decade ago, it came back better than ever, and so did the community surrounding it.
- By: Rob Sneddon
The Legend of the Gray Ghost
In the 1920s a Rangeley hat maker changed the history of angling forever.
- By: Edgar Allen Beem
Fishing Rangeley
Rangeley’s lost trout, the Mooselook Wobbler, and Bass vs. Brookies.
Of Food & Fiddles
At the Maine Fiddle Camp in Montville, music isn’t the only thing on the menu.
- By: Max Alexander
What a View!
From the Penobscot Narrows Observatory you really can see for miles and miles.
- By: Jeff Clark
Departments
Recognize this blooming island garden?
This Far East oasis is worth a visit at anytime of the year.
- Photography by: Kevin Shields
Musings from Maine
Down East’s editors discuss secession, the vainest town in Maine, Lincoln’s candid camera, and more.
Get Out Your Passports
It’s Maine vs. the feds over national ID cards.
- By: Jeff Clark
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to Where in Maine and other articles.
Editor’s Note
Paul Doiron remembers his first day of fishing on the Megunticook River.
- By: Paul Doiron
A Worthy Wool
Maine-made yarn and custom tea blends from MDI are featured in our monthly guide to enjoying life in the Pine Tree State.
Wish We Were There
Homesickness, like the flu, is an illness with discrete stages.
- By: Agnes Bushell
The Maine Viewpoint
Editorial opinions from across Maine.
Romancing the Toothpick
All you ever wanted to know about finger food – and then some.
- By: Richard Grant
Ablaze in Bangor
A brave photographer captured a Queen City inferno back in 1911.
- By: Joshua F. Moore
Firing on All Cylinders
Fuel helps to ignite the nightlife and taste buds of Lewiston residents.
- By: Kathleen Fleury