Donn Fendler was 12 years old in July 1939, when a storm separated him from his group on top of Mount Katahdin. After Donn's recent passing, we asked John Thurlow to share his memories of his friend.
Arts & Leisure
An unconventional sculptor (and a marine biology student) on bridging the art-and-science divide.
We asked our contributors to throw skepticism out the window and float a few moonshot proposals that’d impact Maine for the better.
From the essay “Aroostook Yesterdays,” by Anne Hannan, in our November 1956 issue.
A longtime sportsman faces down illness — and heads out into the field one last time.
On her third record, Portland singer-songwriter Sorcha Cribben-Merrill gets intimate.
The longtime New Yorker writer butchered his takedown of the Polar Bears’ cafeteria. Here’s how.
Underground puppeteers take center stage at a bawdy annual slam in Portland.
Shuffle this way, to Bangor’s annual celebration of the living dead.
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine
Melissa Sweet’s new E.B. White biography is a (literally) colorful portrait of Maine’s most beloved writer.
Photographer Justin Levesque considers Maine’s relationship to its subarctic neighbors — and the lines across the sea that link us.