Last March, Edgecomb teacher Nancie Atwell won a million dollars for banning tests and letting students pick their own reading material. Then she gave it all away.
Arts & Leisure
You can tell a lot about a Mainer by how she chooses to get down a snow-covered hill.
Random Ideas, a rock band formed by teenage triplets, wins over skeptics one power chord at a time.
It’s the season for finding reasons to remain indoors and stationary, but one bold Mainer will no longer be deterred. (Or will he?)
In January, GQ magazine correspondent and Colby College grad Drew Magary published a post entitled “Maine: Do We Need It?" Since one good satire deserves another, here's our response.
From the article “Hunting in Wildcat Country” by Arthur C. Rogers in our Winter 1960 issue.
"By late February [1927], these guys were ready for a little extra money, and bored enough to risk trying something a little different."
As the set-in-Maine Tumbledown hits theaters, filmmakers and others wonder, should Maine be enticing more Hollywood hotshots?
Big blizzards have a way of getting bigger in the telling. Maybe it’s because they reassure us that we are not alone.
Shopping for a woodstove recently, we flipped through the catalog of Norwegian stove maker Jøtul, finding more than half of the 18 featured stoves and fireplace inserts bore Maine place names.
From the article “Maine’s Flying Wardens” by Lew Dietz in our Winter 1955 edition.
A Maine coloring book invites adults to get unplugged.