North Bend Road
If we give what’s wild half a chance, it will, as these fish teach us, do the hard part.
Dooryard
To Catch the Morning Sun
“Like the turkey vultures, I had come to Maine to make myself a good life.”
The Beautiful Bones
Perhaps animals gave us our first lesson in aesthetics, and that’s why we scrawled their images onto cave walls.
A Gift of Birds
Audubon taught me about the splendors of this continent’s wildness and about the human savagery often pitted against it.
Spring Rain
We know the dangers amphibians face: the diseases that sicken them, the destruction of habitat, the roads.
A Winter Garden
Sea vegetables are something Maine is beginning to be known for.
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.