Features
Bowdoin’s Big Makeover
Students aren’t the only ones who will enjoy the college’s stunning new recital hall and art museum.
- By: Hilary Nangle
- Photography by: Michele Stapleton
Autumn Gold
It’s time to stop taking Maine’s beautiful birches for granted.
- By: Rebecca Sawyer-Fay
Soups with a Maine Flavor
The fragrance of bubbling, warm soup can hypnotize the strongest among us to extend a bowl and pull up a chair to the table. These days of hurried meals and convenience foods have caught up to us. It’s time to slow down, to appreciate once again the flavors that can come from our own kitchen in surprisingly…
A Maine Play List
Ten local musicians you should be listening to right now. By Sam Pfeifle
- By: Sam Pfeifle
Open Season
An epidemic of poaching is sweeping across Maine, and wardens are using every weapon in their arsenal to stop it.
- By: Cynthia Anderson
Apocalypse Then
When the prophet William Miller announced he knew the exact date of Doomsday, thousands of Mainers prepared for the end.
- By: Edgar Allen Beem
Eating Close to Home
More Maine cooks are discovering that building a menu from local food is reconnecting them to a fresher, tastier way of life.
- By: Joshua F. Moore
In search of Franco-America (and its food)
Cajun cooking is world famous. So why isn’t the food of their northeastern cousins?
- By: Michael Sanders
- Photography by: Russell French
Autumn, the Way It Should Be
Looking for a perfect fall day trip just twenty minutes from Portland? Then take a drive to New Gloucester, where hayrides and apple-picking remain the order of the day.
- By: Jeff Clark
- Photography by: Sara Gray
On the Road to Pineland
New Gloucester’s crown jewel is the former Pineland Center, a once notorious institution that has become one of Maine’s great success stories. It’s time to pay it a visit.
- By: Jeff Clark
- Photography by: Sara Gray
Departments
Where in Maine?
Vermont might like to think of itself as the foliage capital of New England, but it’s lacking one thing only Maine can provide – the glorious contrast of blue-green saltwater. This tidal river in the midcoast, separating two closely entwined communities, is a prime example. It’s one of two major Maine…
North by East
Trap Day Comes Early – Lobstermen hope a compromise this year will keep Monhegan’s fishery alive. For years, Trap Day has marked the start of winter on Monhegan, as the island fishermen all set their traps together on December 1, officially kicking off what has traditionally been Maine’s only winter-only…
Stealth Industry
Amid economic uncertainty, one Maine manufacturing sector is going great guns.
- By: Jeff Clark
Letters to the Editor
Where in Maine? The lake featured in your August mystery photograph is Sebago, where my family has vacationed since the 1940s when my mother’s family first moved to Portland. It is the only place my immediate family ever went, and I still rent a cottage in East Sebago on the point next to Simpson’s Beach.
Editor’s Note
My memere – or grandmother – was named Oline Doiron, and she made textiles and shoes, first at the Goodall Mills in Sanford and later at the Nike factory in Biddeford. As a Nike employee she was entitled to certain discounts on sneakers in the company store, and so I found myself branded with a Swoosh.
- By: Paul Doiron
Inside Maine
SPORTS: Girl Power – In the mood for something a little . . . different? Then check out Maine Roller Derby’s bout against the Albany All Stars October 6 at the Portland Expo. That’s right, roller derby is back, this time as a women-run enterprise full of big hits and non-stop action. Watch the skaters (including…
My Two Maines
For a boy from Rumford Point, the coast was a strange and magical place.
- By: Dan Abbott
Your monthly guide to enjoying life in the pine tree state.
DINING: Aye Carumba! – Brunswick’s El Camino gives south of the border recipes a deliciously Down East twist. Unless you’re an irredeemable sourpuss, it’s impossible to walk into the El Camino Cantina and not feel a smile come to your face. With a ceiling festooned with chains of colorful paper snowflakes…
Editorial Opinions from Across the State.
Sun Journal, Lewiston: Solar Panel Squabbling – “Yeah, but how’s it going to look?” is a great question before repainting the den, but a feeble interjection when evaluating alternative energy projects, with which looks should be irrelevant. Emphasis on “should be.” Yet homeowners who adopt new energy technologies…
Smoking Schooner
The danger of shipping lime was brought into focus in Rockport at the turn of the century.
- By: Joshua F. Moore