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
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
Capture: Peaks Island
Everyday moments in Maine documented by those who live in and love our state Twenty years ago, I moved to Bar Harbor to attend College of the Atlantic. I immediately fell in love with Acadia National Park and stayed for
Star of Hope Lodge
Homes that have been lived in, really lived in, hold inimitable characteristics: worn floorboards and grooves on the dinner table; the structure seems to age with the homeowner. Robert Indiana’s Vinalhaven home is one of these places. While he has
Beauty and the Brain
When I was in junior high school, my friend Beth gave a presentation about artist Andrew Wyeth and his connection to Maine. As a twelve-year-old, I was painfully inept at drawing and painting and was somewhat skeptical about the relevance
Chebeague: Island Town So Near
The summer natives return year after year, and generation after generation, joining year-round residents who are proudly independent on this Casco Bay island thats less than two miles by ferry from Yarmouth. The peas are up, and one of the
Cruising Casco Bay
From marina to mooring, one Portland boating family shows off their favorite summer spots. I’ve watched the islands of casco bay come into focus as my plane swoops into the airport, vibrant spots of green floating blurrily in the rich