Features
Learning from Old Houses
In building their antique Cape on the banks of the Sheepscot, Fred and Hope Angier drew on three old houses for inspiration — and building materials. By Ellen MacDonald Ward.
Meadow Gardening
Planting a meadow is not simply a matter of scattering some wildflower seed, as Sarah Edwards learned when she decided to landscape her summer home. By Jane Lamb.
Fire & Ice
A small island on a sylvan pond was the perfect site for a build-it-yourself sauna project. By Winnie White.
A Born-Again Church
Following a state-wide trend of recycling abandoned churches, a Camden couple converted a Gothic edifice into condominiums. By Liz Blanchard.
The Charm of the Shingle Cottage
A Mount Desert Island landmark reveals that it takes more than cedar shakes to produce a classic Shingle-style cottage.
Wall-to-Wall Whimsy
Artist Heidi Gerquest employed a vibrant palette and lots of imagination to refurbish her Peaks Island summer cottage. By Beth Crichlow.
Gerrish Island Retreat
The summer house Tom Catalano designed for his parents at Kittery Point has one eye on the past-and the other on the Atlantic. By Michael Brosnan.
A House That’s Not A Home
At Freeport’s historic Harrington House, everything is for sale, even the wallpaper. By Lyn Riddle.
Departments
Room With A View
I know for a fact that the squirrels on this island have every hollow tree converted into bulging granaries capable of sustaining them well into summer, if necessary, and their ruthless plundering of bird feeders is nothing but greed. By Caskie Stinnett.
The Talk of Swan’s Island
Icebound
The Maine Viewpoint
Crime and Punishment
Along the Waterfront
Icebergs and a Baby
Outdoor Maine
Curse of the Canines
Down East Bookshelf
Spartina by John Casey
Top of the Month
Fashion, Puppets & Guns
North by East
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
I Remember
Star-Crossed Crossing
Cover: The newly built ‘antique’ Cape of Fred and Hope Angier. Photograph by Brian Vanden Brink.