Features
A Blank Canvas
Can oil tanks be turned into works of art.
- By: Michaela Cavallaro
The Vanishing Point
Along the Maine coast, fishing wharfs are slowly being replaced with seaside homes. Saving our working waterfronts requires a new way of thinking.
- By: Jeff Clark
- Photography by: Sara Gray
A Place Called Unity
Welcome to the unlikeliest college town in Maine.
- By: Virginia Wright
- Photography by: Kip Brundage
A Shimmer of Glass
Architect Carol Wilson’s designs are modern, elegant, and – in the case of one Portland house – incredibly controversial.
- By: Edgar Allen Beem
- Photography by: Brian Vanden Brink
- Illustrations by: Carl D. Walsh
Winter-hardy Perennials
How well did your garden make it through the winter? Taking these five steps this spring will help protect your garden against Maine’s harshest season.
- By: Rebecca Sawyer-Fay
- Photography by: Kevin Shields
Listening for Spring
On certain nights, if you pay close attention, you can hear the turn of a season.
- By: Susan Shetterly
2007 Down East Environmental Award
The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association has worked for more than thirty-five years on behalf of small farms and the environment.
- By: Jeff Clark
- Photography by: Russell French
The Zen of Zeh
Whatever your idea is of a Maine basketmaker – it’s probably not this guy.
- By: Ken Textor
- Photography by: Benjamin Magro
River on the Rebound
Once famous for its filth, the upper Androscoggin might yet become an angling destination – if only it can get better press coverage.
- By: Roberta Scruggs
- Photography by: Chris Becker
Departments
Where in Maine
With a view like this you don’t need much else. The first settler to build a cabin on this famous Maine harbor lived very simply, but he and his family were certainly rich in views. A former resident of Gloucester, Massachusetts, this early explorer was a maker of barrel staves who sailed the coast in…
- Photography by: Sue Anne Hodges
North by East
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
Stealing the Show
Rosemary Herbert, the publicist for Down East, got a call a few weeks back from some Hollywood types who were filming The Mist, an adaptation of a Stephen King horror novella, down in Shreveport, Louisiana. The script is classic King: a suspenseful and gory clash between a supernatural mist and a bunch…
- By: Joshua F. Moore
Letters to the Editor
Where in Maine? I live in Colorado but was born and raised in Falmouth Foreside. Your March mystery photograph was taken from the town landing there, and for seventeen years I lived about two hundred yards behind the second house from the right. I could tell you who lived in each of the houses pictured.
Editor’s Note
When Whole Foods announced last year that it would open a super store in Portland, just blocks from its haute-crunchy competitors Wild Oats and Hannaford, there was considerable talk about how many organic markets the Bayside neighborhood could support. Was there some vast, unmet need for Kashi of which…
- By: Paul Doiron
Fired, But Not Forgotten
Editorial opinions from across the state
Lost on the Mountain
I called to the ranger. “You’re not going to like this. But someone’s up there.”
- By: Dorcas S. Miller
May
MUSIC: The Fab Four – Mop tops they’re not, but the four young men of the Calder Quartet are earning raves from audiences inspired by their tweaking of chamber music conventions (witness the tough-guy poses in their publicity photo). Named after Alexander Calder, inventor of the mobile, the quartet is wrapping…
Inside Maine
Dining The Night Shift Hip bistro Vignola enlivens Portland’s late-night dining scene. I went to a movie with a few friends on a recent Saturday night in downtown Portland. It was almost 10 p.m. when we strolled out of the theater, and we were famished – we needed a bite, and fast. The only problem is…
Blaze of Glory
A Maine military hero’s summer home had perished long before this fire in 1940.
- By: Joshua F. Moore