NxE - Maine

May 2008

	May 30, 2008 Where Does the "Real Maine" Begin? Driving to work the other day, I passed a sign outside a restaurant in Woolwich. “The real Maine starts here!” it announced in no uncertain terms. Oh really? If you want to start an argument among Mainers and those who love Maine, ask them where Down East Maine begins. Not the bridge in Kittery, but the “real Maine” of picturesque coves where lobsterboats outnumber pleasure craft and pulp trucks rule the highway and people really do say “Ayuh.” Call it Mythical Maine, if only because it seems to lie just over the next bridge from wherever you are, someplace known but never seen. I used to work for a man who insisted Maine really started in Cape Porpoise, because that was the next village up from his family’s summer home in Kennebunkport. A... Read more » Posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 in NxE \| Permalink \| Comments (1)

	May 7, 2008 Should the Waldo-Hancock Bridge go up in smoke? We’ve heard all sorts of proposals for the old Waldo-Hancock Bridge, that increasingly rusty suspension bridge standing beside the spiffy new Penobscot Narrows Bridge over the Penobscot River between Prospect and Verona. Bikeway, pedestrian walk, solar and tidal power center — all those ideas surfaced and disappeared again. Now the Department of Homeland Security has come up with a proposal that sounds as if it should have an April Fool’s Day dateline on it. DHS wants to blow the thing up! The article quotes current and former Maine Department of Transportation officials as saying DHS is curious about what it would... Read more » Posted on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 in NxE \| Permalink \| Comments (2)

	May 6, 2008 Maine's Secret Places A few weeks ago George Smith, executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine and a columnist for the daily Kennebec Journal in Augusta, wrote a column bemoaning an article in Down East that focused on his hometown of Mount Vernon. “Down East magazine has ruined my summer,” he declared. We had not only discovered his quiet, uncrowded, quaint village, but we had also told our readership about it. The secret was out. Just which secrets we should reveal is a problem we wrestle with on an almost daily basis at Down East. We know Maine better than anyone else, and with that knowledge comes a certain responsibility. Sometimes we find places that... Read more » Posted on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 in NxE \| Permalink \| Comments (1)

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