Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
Arts & Leisure
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?
A University of Southern Maine professor’s unlikely new opera takes a run at a pioneering black baseball legend.
After his bluegrass band’s Grammy win, Mark O’Connor lends his fiddle to the PSO Pops!.
Maine’s hardest-working rapper levels up on your smartphone or tablet.
From “Maine’s Merry Gardens” by George Taloumis, in our April 1963 issue.
When Martha Stewart told us one of her favorite reads was Chebacco, we took it as an excuse to shout out a few journals that no Maine-o-phile should miss.
How an unassuming Maine homebuilder became a reality TV star.