Features
The Golden Age of Maine Pizza Is Now
From old-school parlors to chi-chi Neapolitan joints to brick ovens on trailers, Vacationland has more and better pie purveyors than ever before.
By Will Grunewald, Brian Kevin, Adrienne Perron, Joe Ricchio, and Joel Crabtree
Downhill from Here
A snow (and speed) lover’s guide to Maine sledding.
By Jennifer Hazard
Burn So Bright
In Maine, heating with wood is more than a tradition — it’s a way of life. In an excerpt from her new memoir Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life, Gretchen Legler reflects on the pleasures of the hearth — and of the labor that keeps the home fires burning.
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Special Advertising Section: Aging
How advocates for older adults are working to make the Pine Tree State more livable and sustainable for retirees. Plus, a guide to retirement communities.
By Jennifer Van Allen
Departments
North by East
A Brunswick aerospace company plans rocket launches down east, a Michigan company adds Maine ski terrain to its portfolio, and an essay collection considers Maine’s role in the organics movement. Plus, in Maine Dispatches, a hemisphere-trotting lobster buoy.
Food and Drink
On MDI, a restaurateur turned salumist opens Colvard & Company. In Waterville, Front & Main is a hotel restaurant without the hotel guests. All over Maine, they’re parsing the new “right to food” amendment.
Good Things from Maine
Six Maine-made charcuterie boards that are ready for their close-up, three Maine-made cards for your valentine, one Maine-made oud that’s unlike any other stringed instrument.
Maine Homes
The never-ending renovation of a Newcastle schoolhouse and the everlasting ardor behind three historic love nests. Plus, Maine Preservation’s new executive director talks plans for the enduring nonprofit.
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Where in Maine
Maine Moment
Dooryard
Editor’s note, reader feedback, responses to December’s Where in Maine, and more.
Columns
My Favorite Place
Cookbook author Chris Toy, on Merrymeeting Bay.
On Our Cover: The state of Maine pizza, by Derek Bissonnette.
Additional photos: Benjamin Williamson, Sienna Clough, and Danielle Sykes