Tourmaline-colored leaves at the end of a rainbow
Tuesday, October 10th, 2017
Driving the quiet side roads of Boothbay Harbor, you can see the forest AND the trees. And now that foliage…
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Weaving baskets of memory with crimson and gold
Wednesday, September 27th, 2017
According to a report on Maine Public Radio, the puffin population is rebounding (though great cormorants are being threatened by…
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The sixth sense, built on sense of place
Friday, September 22nd, 2017
‘When in the course of human events,” a elemental force greater than ourselves tries to wipe clean the slate of…
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Wine from oceanside memories made in Maine
Wednesday, September 6th, 2017
Daisy Buchanan is trapped for eternity in her Great Gatsby fear of missing the longest day of the year. Bemoaning…
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License to fish
Friday, August 25th, 2017
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; but teach a man to fish and he’s…
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Stone’s throw from history
Wednesday, August 9th, 2017
The Maine Coast Stone Symposium at the Boothbay Railway Village, celebrating local sculptors and stone masons, made us stop and…
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The Ultimate Maine Road Trip
Monday, July 31st, 2017
Up another peninsula, and then down again. Passing the bottleneck in Wiscasset on Route 1—a lobster-roll face-off between legendary Red’s Eats (left…
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Flotsam for the fashionista
Thursday, July 27th, 2017
In 1892, the first summer Spruce Point Inn was open, Gibson Girl fashions were in vogue (literally). According to the history researched…
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Two guardians at the gate keep Burnt Island Light burning for another 200 years
Wednesday, July 19th, 2017
The way Elaine Jones, Burnt Island Lighthouse keeper and Education Director for Maine’s Department of Marine Resources puts it, “This light…
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Maple syrup in July
Wednesday, June 28th, 2017
Maple syrup in July. Seems like a fish out of water to New Englanders used to associating maple with the…
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