After serving in World War II, the painter and writer found solace in his work (and on a small island in Maine).
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Jaed Coffin is the author of the memoirs A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants and Roughhouse Friday and teaches in the University of New Hampshire's MFA creative writing program. He lives in Brunswick.
All day and all night, the snowmakers of Sunday River Resort keep the fluffy stuff blasting.
No ocean liners necessary: Rich Wills dreamt up a different kind of cruise along the Maine coast.
After her husband died in 2013, Jeanette Gilmore took over Smokey’s Greater Shows, an institution on the Maine festival circuit. But in 50+ years of fairgrounds, Ferris wheels, and a fluctuating workforce, life on the midway hasn’t gotten any easier. Welcome to the carnival.
We live in one of the least homicidal, most neighborly places in the country. Why has crime fiction become our de facto state literary genre?
Sometimes, highway safety is a laughing matter.
The improbable Maine origins of the theme song to the HBO hit Barry.
Will Sears gives Portland a fresh look and blurs the line between commercial and fine art.
Each winter, Chris Hayward plays an epic game of King of the Mountain, eschewing chairlifts and racking up as much vertical footage as he can. Who says going down is the fun part?
