Features
Can oil tanks be turned into works of art.
Along the Maine coast, fishing wharfs are slowly being replaced with seaside homes. Saving our working waterfronts requires a new way of thinking.
- Photography by: Sara Gray
A Shimmer of Glass
Architect Carol Wilson's designs are modern, elegant, and - in the case of one Portland house - incredibly controversial.
- Photography by: Brian Vanden Brink
- Illustrations by: Carl D. Walsh
A Place Called Unity
Welcome to the unlikeliest college town in Maine.
- Photography by: Kip Brundage
Winter-hardy Perennials
How well did your garden make it through the winter? Taking these five steps this spring will help protect your garden against Maine's harshest season.
- Photography by: Kevin Shields
The Zen of Zeh
Whatever your idea is of a Maine basketmaker - it's probably not this guy.
- Photography by: Benjamin Magro
Listening for Spring
On certain nights, if you pay close attention, you can hear the turn of a season.
The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association has worked for more than thirty-five years on behalf of small farms and the environment.
- Photography by: Russell French
River on the Rebound
Once famous for its filth, the upper Androscoggin might yet become an angling destination - if only it can get better press coverage.
- Photography by: Chris Becker
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With a view like this you don't need much else. The first settler to build a cabin on this famous Maine harbor lived very simply, but he and his family were certainly rich in views. A former resident of Gloucester, Massachusetts, this early explorer was a maker of barrel staves who sailed the coast in
- Photography by: Sue Anne Hodges
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine
Rosemary Herbert, the publicist for Down East, got a call a few weeks back from some Hollywood types who were filming The Mist, an adaptation of a Stephen King horror novella, down in Shreveport, Louisiana. The script is classic King: a suspenseful and gory clash between a supernatural mist and a bunch
Where in Maine? I live in Colorado but was born and raised in Falmouth Foreside. Your March mystery photograph was taken from the town landing there, and for seventeen years I lived about two hundred yards behind the second house from the right. I could tell you who lived in each of the houses pictured.
When Whole Foods announced last year that it would open a super store in Portland, just blocks from its haute-crunchy competitors Wild Oats and Hannaford, there was considerable talk about how many organic markets the Bayside neighborhood could support. Was there some vast, unmet need for Kashi of which
Editorial opinions from across the state
MUSIC The Fab Four Mop tops they're not, but the four young men of the Calder Quartet are earning raves from audiences inspired by their tweaking of chamber music conventions (witness the tough-guy poses in their publicity photo). Named after Alexander Calder, inventor of the mobile, the quartet is wrapping
Lost on the Mountain
I called to the ranger. "Your not going to like this. But someones's up there."
Inside Maine
Dining The Night Shift Hip bistro Vignola enlivens Portland's late-night dining scene. I went to a movie with a few friends on a recent Saturday night in downtown Portland. It was almost 10 p.m. when we strolled out of the theater, and we were famished - we needed a bite, and fast. The only problem is
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A Maine military hero's summer home had perished long before this fire in 1940
