Forest City Landing
To get to Peaks Island, most pass over the mint-green transfer bridge at Forest City Landing. The structure, erected in the 1990s to replace a smaller bridge, is a passageway to 740 acres of island calm. But Peaks is hardly
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Olympian Julia Clukey’s Camp for Girls
Dream. Achieve. Believe. Succeed. “Why is it good to think about our goals?” asks Olympic luge rider Julia Clukey. Sprawled across the floor of the brand new camp director’s cabin, 30 young women reflect on Clukey’s question. Many of them
Rooms with a View
01 Press Hotel | Portland This boutique hotel on upper Exchange Street in downtown Portland gathered all of its interior inspiration from the building’s history as the former headquarters for the Portland Press Herald. Inside find art installations inspired by
York + Kittery
My bags are packed and I’m ready to go. The only thing I’m missing is my partner in crime, Brandon. I pick him up from his work and we head south to York—a 45-minute drive from our home in Portland.
Freeport
Photographs + stories by Maine + Maine Home+Design magazine staff When I tell people I’m heading to Freeport for a weekend “away” they look puzzled: the town is only 30 minutes from where I live. It’s true that we’re no
"If You Buy Something Right, Sell it Right."
How Renys Discount Department Store Has Thrived for 65 Years Maine culture is defined by such rock-solid values as thrift, practicality, resourcefulness, hard work, and individualism, sometimes bordering on eccentricity. A sampling of Maine culture is on full display, and
Maine’s New Passion Projects
A couple of weeks before the reopening of the Danforth, a boutique inn in Portland’s West End, the first-floor rooms were filled with people at work. Dining room tables became makeshift desks and people sat at them hunched over laptops
New Day, Boothbay
A summer colony for centuries, this harbor is just 60 miles northeast of Portland on a peninsula of coves, sailboats, islands, lighthouses, and ultra-devoted residentsboth natives and newcomers. For a couple of summer days, were exploring some of whats timeless
Jennifer Hutchins
The Creative Portland Executive Director Dreams of Upending How we Value Art. It is one of those brilliantly colorful days in Portland. Commercial Street is swelling with end-of-summer restlessness. Lines jut out of restaurants, lobster shacks, and cafes. Cars carrying
