The Surry Forest
“I remember the first time I visited the 2,200-acre woodlot for sale in my town. It was in 2014, and Pam Johnson and I drove in to take a look.”
Dooryard
Leaving the Land
“Each farm is a particular, complicated arrangement.”
North Bend Road
If we give what’s wild half a chance, it will, as these fish teach us, do the hard part.
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.