Features
Is Maine Screwing Up its Wine Industry?
Maine’s up-and-coming wineries struggle against a dizzying array of convoluted laws. By: Edgar Allen Beem
The Shakers’ Last Dance
A new book by journalist Jeannine Lauber shows Shaker life as being different from popular perception.
Go for the Gold
Whether you’re training to become an Olympian or just pretending to be one, you’ll find plenty of places in Maine to practice nearly all of the sports on display this month in Vancouver at the XXI Olympic Winter Games.
The Blue Snows of East Boothbay
Andrea Peters paints all the colors of a Maine winter.
Oh, Chute!
Four hundred feet of ice, one toboggan, and four petrified women in costume: a firsthand account of the U.S. National Toboggan Championships.
Departments
A Delicious Metamorphosis
Fish Bones in the Bates Mill brings sophisticated seafood and renewed hope to Lewiston. By: Kathleen Fleury. Photography by: Mark Fleming
Wild at Heart
Susan Hand Shetterly’s ode to Maine’s beautiful and endangered landscape. By: Richard Grant
Where in Maine?
Can you identify this snowy harbor? Photography by: Sara Gray
Letters to the Editor
Read what our readers have to say about Maine. Photography by: Sue Anne Hodges
Hiding the Money
Donors to the campaign against gay marriage are suing Maine. By: Colin Woodard
Love in the Time of Cold
One Portlander contemplates courtship during Maine winters. Photography by: Lewis Robinson
Editor’s Note
Let’s embrace winter rather than endure it.
North by East
When owls attack, the secret history of spruce gum, and more.
The Maine Viewpoint
Editorial opinions from across the state.
Space Oddity
For weirdness, Roswell had nothing over Maine in 1962.