Trapani at Owls Head Light.
Bob Trapani Jr. carries the torch for Maine’s beloved-but-antiquated seaside beacons in the GPS era.
Ellie Buckland, Mali Obomsawin, and Isa Burke from Lula WIles
Folk trio Lula Wiles brings its breezy vocal harmonizing and sharp picking, bowing, and plucking back to Maine for this summer’s Kingfield Pops.
old photo of a steamboat next to another sinking steamboat on Moosehead Lake
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.
musicians palying at All Roads Music Festival
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 bank of the Penobscot River recalls the days when salmon — presidential or otherwise — were plentiful.
Old photo of loggers working on logs
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.
Illustration of differing beliefs around a table
With Disgraced, Portland Stage dives into an escalating national debate over religion, ethnicity, and American identity.
Boat full of fish
In 2009, after years of dam removals and fishway constructions, alewives swam through Benton en masse for the first time in two centuries.
Boys of Summer
Author Alex George spins a rollicking coming-of-age tale on the Maine coast.
Daniel Sonenberg at the piano
A University of Southern Maine professor’s unlikely new opera takes a run at a pioneering black baseball legend.