February 2010

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.

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.

Photography by: Benjamin Magro

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.

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Our New Books
	Moxie: Maine in a Bottle \| The compendium of all things Moxie!
	Grandma Drove the Lobsterboat \| The redoubtable Grandma—this book is a sequel to Grandma Drove the Snowplow—is at it again.
	Take Heart \| In this collection of verse, Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair has collected the work of Maine poets from his popular “Take Heart” column, featuring a poem each week in thirty newspapers across the state and reaching a quarter of a million readers.
	Wild Fox \| This is Cherie Mason’s touching story of how she befriended a wild creature, knowing that his instincts would soon lead him away forever. Suffused with gentle wonder, Wild Fox speaks to the deep human longing to span the gulf between species.