Eastport tried for years to lure mega cruise ships. Then, amid a global pandemic, it got one, along with a skeleton crew of coronavirus exiles.
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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.
After serving in World War II, the painter and writer found solace in his work (and on a small island in Maine).
All day and all night, the award-winning team of “snow farmers” keeps the fluffy stuff blasting.
No ocean liners necessary: Rich Wills dreamt up a different kind of cruise along the Maine coast.
The South Portland company is forging ahead with its plans to restore and create quality, Maine-made tools.
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.
A French lawn finds its champion in a state with deep Franco-American history.
Sometimes, highway safety is a laughing matter.
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?
For almost 40 years, Steve Brettell has worked with monkish devotion in a tiny attic workshop, crafting countless exquisitely lifelike duck decoys.