When sheep need to be shorn, there’s a good chance Maine farmers are going to call Jeff Burchstead.
Small-town papers aren’t nearly as numerous as they once were, but the few survivors are as vital to their communities as ever.
Instead, years of ownership issues, deteriorating infrastructure, and unrealized ambitions have reduced Big Moose to a shadow of its former self. Can anyone give the old resort a much-needed lift?
Closed for more than three years, the acclaimed restaurant is back — and as laudable as ever.
Comfort food and a complete lack of pretense prevail at the cozy new pub in Liberty.
For the lifelong Whiting resident, some things never change — not his Bean boots, not his skate blades, and certainly not his love of skimming up and down the ice on the Orange River.
For more than 40 years, the tribes in Maine have had to play by different rules than other indigenous groups across the country.
Still in its first year, its welcoming, genial atmosphere and rotating menu focused on local and seasonal fare attracts a regular crowd.
Farmers across the state are banding together to take on the hegemony of imports in local flower shops. If they succeed, Maine floriculture could hit full bloom.
In the 1970s and ’80s, he schlepped a bulky, old view camera all over Vinalhaven, capturing the island’s landscape and people. Now, he has compiled more than 100 of those images in a coffee-table book that is resonating with audiences in ways he didn’t see coming.
Long content to toil in obscurity from his quiet perch on Deer Isle, the septuagenarian master of photomontage drives fast, takes chances, and wonders whether he’s getting somewhere.
And Mountain Social is case in point: creative cooking, cozy vibes, and bracing cocktails for the chilled and windburned après-ski crowd.