What’s in a Picture
Auto-race enthusiasts cheer drivers zooming toward the Old Orchard Beach pier in one of the hundreds of American Automobile Association–sanctioned events.
North by East
Another Tempestuous Term
Maine’s Sea Grant program, responsible for delivering practical scientific know-how to fishing communities, now faces an existential political threat.
Mountain Maven
Aislinn Sarnacki’s climb from copy desk intern to Maine trail guru.
Psych Out
When a shadowy Rockport estate became the world epicenter of psychics and psychedelics.
A Festival for the Birds
Since 1999, the Acadia Birding Festival has grown from a get-together for locals to a grand to-do that draws diehard birders from across the country.
Mr. Lighthouse
Bob Trapani Jr. carries the torch for Maine’s beloved-but-antiquated seaside beacons in the GPS era.
What’s in a Picture
In their heyday, dozens of steamboats plied Maine’s largest lake. Soon, though, the Great Depression and the age of the automobile took their tolls, and as steamboats grew obsolete, they were scuttled or simply allowed to sink at mooring.
Summer Squeeze
A sudden paucity of waitstaff, hosts, and housekeepers has Maine’s hospitality industry feeling the heat this year.
Down East Dispatches
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
Lay of the Land
As the game-changing Land for Maine’s Future program observes its 30th anniversary, the state’s land conservation scene is at a crossroads.
What’s in a Picture
In 2009, after years of dam removals and fishway constructions, alewives swam through Benton en masse for the first time in two centuries.
Ball Canto
A University of Southern Maine professor’s unlikely new opera takes a run at a pioneering black baseball legend.