More than 500 antique clothes irons are on display at his B&B, the Old Iron Inn.
History
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.
Some 60 years ago, locals and visiting dignitaries teed up on a Georgetown mudflat.
By Richard HalletFrom our May 1960 issue A woman in so exclusive a...
Oscar Farwell was right — his will did surprise the daylights out of all the folks who knew him.