Features
12 Ways to Love Your Lake House
Whether you call it a cottage or a camp, here are a dozen tips for getting the most out of your home away from home.
- By: Virginia Wright
Choosing Maine: Town-by-Town Tour of Maine
Undecided about where to move in Maine? Here’s a quick tour of the state to help you narrow your choices.
On the Maine Folk Art Trail
Eleven Maine Museums display Maine Folk Art.
Choosing Maine: The Best Office Ever
More and more Maine telecommuters are discovering that success is only a phone call – or a mouse click – away.
- By: Jeff Clark
Choosing Maine: Home at Last
A Guide to Relocating in the Pine Tree State
Jump Right In!
A bit of legwork will earn you the privilege of swimming in some of the finest, and least crowded (for now), swimming areas in the Pine Tree State.
- By: Emily Glatz Fontaine
Choosing Maine: Return of the Natives
Bright Maine natives are proving you can come home again – and succeed.
- By: Edgar Allen Beem
Grand Decision
At Weatherby’s, the more things stay the same, the more they change.
- By: Wayne Curtis
The Dam That Wouldn’t Leave
For seven years a battle has raged in Winslow over turning a “lake” back into a river.
- By: Jeff Clark
Acadia’s Forgotten Lakes
Tucked amid bold ocean cliffs and granite-topped peaks, the lakes and ponds on Mount Desert Island manage to hide in plain sight. They’re worth a second look.
- By: Joshua F. Moore
Painted Lakes
Maine’s inland waters once provided a powerful, and colorful, draw for visitors.
Departments
Recognize this island plantation?
Artists and writers such as Elizabeth Ogilvie have flocked to this summer island haven.
Musings From Maine
Down East’s editors discuss the coming of the yellow dust, paying for snow days, creating a new state park, and more.
Keep on Trucking
Ways of the Woods is a mobile museum.
- By: Nate Hardcastle
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to Where in Maine and other articles.
The Cottage
Editor-in-Chief Paul Doiron reflects on his family camp on Middle Range Pond.
- By: Paul Doiron
Maine Made
A belt from The Belted Cow and throwing a Frisbee are a few ways to enjoy Maine this month.
Keeping Bs
My son has learned how to let it be in Brooklin.
- By: Martha White
A Biologist’s Tale
A review of Bernd Heinrich’s “The Snoring Bird.”
- By: David Haward Bain
The Maine Viewpoint
Editorial opinions from across Maine.
Hotel Constitution
Maine shipbuilders helped America’s greatest ship reclaim her dignity more than a century ago.
- By: Joshua F. Moore
In Good Hands
Eat, drink, and be merry at a Rockland wine bar that specializes in late-night fare.
- By: Kathleen Fleury