Rigor & Joy
Nancie Atwell: the Maine educator who won the Global Teacher Prize One summer day in 1975, a young couple parked at Hendricks Head Beach on Southport. It was a quiet, narrow stretch of sand with large dark rocks rising
Boothbay
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
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
Boothbay, Wiscasset, and Damariscotta
Friday 1:00 p.m. Red’s Eats It’s pretty hard to drive through one of the cutest downtowns in New England and not stop for an ice cream cone at Red’s Eats, so I decide to pull over. Wiscasset’s downtown is perched
The Thistle Inn
“I think you’ll really like this first pairing, it’s a bit different than what you are probably expecting.” And thus Thistle Inn owner Max Ross leaves me in suspense over what I am to drink with my order of cold,
Wedding Venues
01 Diamond’s Edge Restaurant and Marina | Portland It’s freeing to leave the brick sidewalks of the Old Port and catch a ferry over to one of the Casco Bay islands. Guests will feel that escape when they step
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
A vibrant seaside garden in Boothbay A group of dedicated midcoast residents dreamed of creating a botanical garden in Maine. The dream found its roots in an ideal Boothbay setting, and support for a garden on the coast, where horticulture, education, and research would take
Bigelow Laboratory
40 Years of Global Ocean Research in Boothbay I first learned about the Bigelow Laboratory as an undergraduate at Bowdoin College. A biology major, one of my campus jobs was cleaning test tubes for a professor who performed research in
Boothbay Harbor
Photographs + stories by Maine magazine staff:Jen DeRose, Managing Editor, Old Port magazine Jen DeRose, Managing Editor, Old Port magazine Its Memorial Day weekend, and as my husband, Sam, and I drive through quaint Boothbay, were happy to find
