Features

Way Fab Prefabs

In their quest for affordable, energy-efficient homes, some Mainers are thinking outside the site-built box.

By Sarah Stebbins, Virginia M. Wright, and Brian Kevin

Learn the Fern

What does a veteran forager know about Maine fiddleheads that you don’t? Plenty. Curl up with our tale of a tagalong day in the field.

By Michael Burke

Deep Space

Staring at a starlit Maine sky? Essayist, novelist, and physicist Alan Lightman talks about his new book, Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine. Plus, an excerpt.

Interview by Brian Kevin

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Special advertising section: Meet the cruisers

For serious boat people, the Maine coast is the Promised Land. Get to know the folks for whom cruising is not a pastime but a passion.

By Caitlin Gilmet

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Departments

North by East

A new era for Maine’s pro wrestlers, a tiff between lobstermen and regulators, and a new spin on a classic from Portland Ballet. Plus, dislodged bears and popped beer tabs in Maine Dispatches.

Food & Drink

We pucker up for Maine-brewed coolship beers, take the heat at Ellsworth’s Serendib, and melt like butter over Dysart’s chicken potpie. Also, the secrets to snagging a reservation at Freedom’s Lost Kitchen.

Good Things from Maine

Addie Peet stylishly revives a forgotten floor covering, Anchorpak rethinks the tote bag, and we get the goods on increasingly hip Kittery Foreside.

Maine Homes

Tour a Belgrade Lakes camp with the craziest windows ever and learn why in-law flats are on the rise. If you’ve ever wondered “what’s it worth?”, check out our very own antiques roadshow.

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Where in Maine

Maine Moment

Dooryard

Editor’s note, reader feedback, responses to February’s Where in Maine, and more.

Columns

My Maine: White Wedding. Room With a View.

My Favorite Place

Two-star Michelin chef Ryan McCaskey on Tobey’s Grocery in China.

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On the cover: Ferns (not fiddleheads) at Evans Notch, by Darylann Leonard.

Additional photos: The Milky Way from Popham Beach by Benjamin Williamson; Sri Lankan hot wings at Ellsworth’s Serendib by Douglas Merriam; Higgins Beach by Seth Gaffar; Georgetown by Benjamin Williamson