After her husband died in 2013, Jeanette Gilmore took over Smokey’s Greater Shows, an institution on the Maine festival circuit. But in 50+ years of fairgrounds, Ferris wheels, and a fluctuating workforce, life on the midway hasn’t gotten any easier. Welcome to the carnival.
Novelist Christina Baker Kline has spent the last three years immersed in Wyeth’s most famous work. A dispatch from inside Christina’s World.
From windswept islands in a warming Gulf of Maine, Derrick Z. Jackson documents Maine’s puffin colonies in intimate, dazzling detail.
Rafting pioneer Suzie Hockmeyer’s wild, 41-year ride.
In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, Michael Finkel explains the origins of the whispered myth that haunted central Maine for decades.
We checked in with five trail stewards, from all walks of life, who help make Maine’s 282 miles of trail a wilderness experience like no other.
We spend all year thinking about it and countless hours tabulating your votes for it. See our annual list of Maine’s best everything.
We live in one of the least homicidal, most neighborly places in the country. Why has crime fiction become our de facto state literary genre?
With a popular blog and three books, Lisa Steele is spreading the gospel of (pretty) backyard chicken keeping.
Green-thumbed friends gather among vegetable beds for a laid-back meal in a Phippsburg potting shed.
A new compendium shows off the archival illustrations of Kate Furbish, Maine’s swashbuckling Victorian botanist.