A half century ago, the futurist was tinkering with a wind machine, writing love poems, and literally dancing to his own beat.
History
For more than three decades, Jerry Elwell took vulnerable wild creatures, including a kamikaze crow, a preemie duck with an identity crisis, and a goose that required mouth-to-beak resuscitation, under her wing.
But recently, he’s begun selling off some of his 18,000-piece collection to make room for another passion: lobster buoys.
More than 500 antique clothes irons are on display at his B&B, the Old Iron Inn.
On the centennial of Maine’s original summer colony, Down East asked Edith Wheeler, the 93-year-old granddaughter of the Squirrel Island Association’s first president, to pen a recollection of the little colony’s early days.
With a collection of more than 300 locally crafted axes and scythes, he's taken a whack at reconstructing the town's manufacturing history.
Known as the nation’s oldest chandlery and Maine’s longest-running retail operation, S.L. Wadsworth & Son hardware store still supplies the necessities to the city’s homeowners and boat owners.
Hundreds of miles and thousands of calories later, one very hungry road-tripper digests Maine’s long, sweet love affair with the doughnut, stretching back to the humble pastry’s hazy origins.
Thanks to the ITS, it is now entirely feasible to hop on a sled in York County and wind up at the top of Aroostook County.
Half a century ago, operators in Bryant Pond still dispatched news, first responders, and advice on boiling a chicken.
Stitching together the up, down, and up-again life of a Maine textile center.
Forty years ago, a novel legal agreement set aside some 18,000 acres in Attean Township for conservation — and timber harvesting.