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?
Arts & Leisure
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 bank 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.
With Disgraced, Portland Stage dives into an escalating national debate over religion, ethnicity, and American identity.
In 2009, after years of dam removals and fishway constructions, alewives swam through Benton en masse for the first time in two centuries.
Author Alex George spins a rollicking coming-of-age tale on the Maine coast.
Who is Aly Spaltro and what does she have to say?