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Travel & Outdoors

5 of Acadia National Park’s Best High-Country Trails

Clinging to cliffs and traversing above tree line, Acadia at its most rugged.
Golden MacDonald, photographed in 1934. Photo courtesy of the North Haven Historical Society, North Haven, Maine
History

How a Maine Fisherman Became Margaret Wise Brown’s Alter Ego

Golden MacDonald was the celebrated “author” of The Little Island and other classics.
Food & Drink

Night of Lobster

Seventy-five years ago, the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and essayist Robert P. Tristram Coffin penned a timeless tribute to one of Maine’s simplest pleasures. Its influence would reverberate through contemporary food writing.
Best of Maine

Maine’s Best Small-Town Downtowns

Six Main Streets with moxie — and the businesses, buildings, and boosters that make them great.
Issues & Politics

Can the Soul of “America’s Environmental College” Survive Digital Disruption?

The president of central Maine’s small, scrappy Unity College is out to shake up the educational status quo. His detractors say he’s gutting a unique and vital institution. What’s next for the school is anybody’s guess.
Mark Freeman spent this spring continuing to tinker with Foolish Pleasure while it was perched on a trailer on the side of Route 1 in York.
Features

Foolish Pleasure, The World’s Fastest Lobsterboat, Rides Again

After the untimely death of its longtime owner, the famously fast lobsterboat motors back onto Maine’s racing circuit.
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Travel & Outdoors

The 30 Best Trails in Acadia National Park

From all across Maine’s diverse and dazzling national park, our favorite trails for every kind of adventurer.
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Food & Drink

Portage Tap House Is the Hangout Oquossoc Needed

Paul and Laura Reynolds didn’t want to drive to Rangeley for dinner. So they opened a restaurant.
12 Pieces of Maine-Sourced Gear for Your Outdoor Summer
Maine-Made

11 Pieces of Maine-Sourced Gear for Your Outdoor Summer

No matter how you play, we have your gear needs covered.
Photo by John Lane, Evening Tide Photography
Photography

Can You Name This Maine Mapping Marvel?

Its eastern and western termini are about equidistant from this spot, in two towns synonymous with Maine’s wild-blueberry industry.
Bri Dostie, founder of Confluence Collective
Land, Water & Wildlife

Confluence Collective Is Out to Make Fishing More Welcoming

Meet Maine’s Bri Dostie, winner of Orvis’s 2020 Breaking Barriers award.
Mike Baker fishing from his electric-powered kayak
Land, Water & Wildlife

Mike Baker Lands Heavy Fish and Leaves a Light Carbon Footprint

The Arundel guide is an evangelist for electric-powered kayaks.
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