Jerry Elwell shows two children the injured bird in her hand
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.
The Island I was among several steamboats offering service to Squirrel Island.
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.
S.L Wadsworth & Son’s old wharf-side spot
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.
Doughnuts from the Cookie Jar Pastry Shop.
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.