A Winter Garden
Sea vegetables are something Maine is beginning to be known for.
Dooryard
Portraits of Courage
After a brush with tragedy, photographer Rogier van Bakel honored local heroes the best way he knew how.
The Chicken Shed
Author Susan Hand Shetterly’s first Room with a View column.
The Bottom of the Page
“As you get older, those seasons accelerate, arriving and departing like houseguests — hardly time to clean up after one before the next one is on the doorstep.”
Dirigo-Getter
Joanne Arnold is one of 12 speakers on the bill at this year’s TEDxDirigo, on November 3, at the Portland campus of the University of New England.
Judgement Days
The legacies of my generation, individual and collective, will be various: much to boast about and much to be ashamed of.
Provincialisms
This November’s midterm elections pit us against each other in ways that seem to have precious little to do with realities grounded in our local and national geographies or their histories.
Apple of His Eye
Bob Sewall’s Lincolnville farm — Maine’s oldest organic apple orchard — is his life’s passion and a wellspring of innovation.
Awakening
Sometimes there’s more to a hard day’s work than a hard day’s work. A life lesson learned from taking off with dad.
Earthy Delights
A late-summer bounty of wild mushrooms makes for a savory tart.
Living Off the Grid
Early last April, a pair of ospreys — newlyweds, so to speak — built themselves a nest there. Every so often, we’d see one or the other of them…
A Serious Matter
Those rivers, those woods, those creatures, that country: The Way Life Is.