Features
Your Favorite Maine State Parks
We asked our readers, then sent our photographers out to 10 of the state’s most beautiful public lands, from beaches to mountains to historic forts.
All Is Well
Ripped from the headlines: a tale of a stranded sailor, an unlikely rescue, an love lost (and found) on the high seas.
Hard Tellin’ Not Knowin
What exactly is the Maine dialect? What does it mean to talk like a Mainer in 2015? The answers are wicked complicated.
Whose Town Is It Anyway?
A flurry of development in the Kennebunks prompts a philosophical tug-of-war over the towns’ identities.
Spose: The King of Maine Gets Happy
Maine’s hardest working rapper on success, misery, and fast food.
Departments
Where in Maine?
Can you peg a name to lake and lighthouse?
Editor’s Note
Maine State Parks
Letters to the Editor
What You Said
Your Maine
What’s your favorite place to paddle a canoe or kayak in Maine?
North by East
Down East Dispatches
News You May Have Missed
What’s in a Picture
The End of an Era in Lubec
Q&A
Walter Skold, Founder of the Dead Poets Society of America
Dooryard
Home
A Retro Cumberland Cottage
Making it Maine
Geoffrey Warner’s Owl Stools
Garden
A Family Affair in Jefferson
My Maine
Blueberries Saved My Life!
Recipe
Tomato and Bread Salad
Room With a View
Seeing Stars
Guide
Dining
Boynton-McKay Food Co.
Excursion
Stemwinder Sculpture Works & Gardens
Book
The Enchanted August
Fiction
From Ann Beattie’s The State We’re In: Maine Stories
August Calendar
Go Here. Do this. See that.
From Our Archives: August 1957
A look back at Down East fifty eight years ago
