Features
Maine-Made Gifts!
Our annual gift guide is your ticket to stylish, creative, and thoughtful gift-giving — all while supporting Maine’s small businesses and artisans. By Laura Serino
Family Trees
The best part about having a real Christmas tree? Putting your boots on and heading out to find it, of course Photographed by Cara Slifka
My Intractable, Gun-Loving, Anti-Government, Right-Wing Cousin, (Who I Like a Lot)
On a visit back home to central Maine, one writer contemplates “the two Maines,” peace on Earth, and good will towards Ben. By Ron Currie Jr.
Departments
Where in Maine?
Can you name this pretty park and the town where it’s found?
Editor’s Note
Down East Family
North by East
Opinions, Advisories, and Musings from the Length and Breadth of Maine
North by East
Down East Dispatches
News You May Have Missed
Winter Beaters
It Only Has to Last the Winter
What’s in a Picture
The First Flying Santa
Q&A
Does Maine Need Coyotes?
Dooryard
Home
A Currier & Ives farmhouse in Durham
My Maine
Into the Wildwood
Making It in Maine
ReVision Energy
Room With a View
Lingua Franca
Guide
Dining
Portland Patisserie
Theater
The Snow Queen vs. Frozen
Music
Liza Rey Butler’s Lullabies
Celebrations
Maine Holiday Event Calendar
On the cover: Bringing in the Tree, by Cara Slifka