Lon Cameron's Maine Float crafts feature umbrellas, retractable swim ladders, and quiet electric motors.
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Sara Anne Donelly is a Down East contributing editor.
His shady characters have attracted celebrity clients and 750,000 social-media fans.
But recently, he’s begun selling off some of his 18,000-piece collection to make room for another passion: lobster buoys.
With a collection of more than 300 locally crafted axes and scythes, he's taken a whack at reconstructing the town's manufacturing history.
Quilting had South Portland's Judy Gates feeling boxed in, so she started piecing together nature-themed textile collages instead.
On Thanksgiving, Dan Powell will set his two acres of woods along Route 124 alight with 62,070 LED bulbs worth of twinkling Yuletide cheer.
During the Maine Attraction performance we caught, skiers flipped, swiveled, “skied” without skis, and executed choreographed dances on a pair of large floats.
Thirty years in, she says collecting beach treasures still buoys her.
More than 500 antique clothes irons are on display at his B&B, the Old Iron Inn.
Some 700 blankets fill a timber-frame barn attached to her 18th-century York farmhouse.
But her budget-friendly designs rarely break the bank.
For activists trying to save Sears from development, the clock is ticking.