Orthodoxy isn’t the point when world-class performers play Mount Vernon’s Independence Day pops concert.
Arts & Leisure
Auto-race enthusiasts cheer drivers zooming toward the Old Orchard Beach pier in one of the hundreds of American Automobile Association–sanctioned events.
What do these things have to do with each other? We had no idea either, until we heard from sculptor Gary Sussman.
From “On Damariscotta Lake,” in the June 1984 issue. 33 years later, families still take to the water to fish, paddle, or simply splash with the kids.
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?
Bob Trapani Jr. carries the torch for Maine’s beloved-but-antiquated seaside beacons in the GPS era.
Folk trio Lula Wiles brings its breezy vocal harmonizing and sharp picking, bowing, and plucking back to Maine for this summer’s Kingfield Pops.
In their heyday, dozens of steamboats plied Maine’s largest lake. Soon, though, the Great Depression and the age of the automobile took their tolls, and as steamboats grew obsolete, they were scuttled or simply allowed to sink at mooring.
On Saturday, May 20, over 30 music artists from across Maine will join together to present their work in venues across Belfast which provides a scenic backdrop for the event in a community that embraces art & culture.
A clubhouse on the banks of the Penobscot River recalls the days when salmon — presidential or otherwise — were plentiful.
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
From “Machias River Log Drive,” in our May 1971 issue. A couple of months after this article was published, the Maine State Legislature passed a law to end log drives for good.