It was the middle of October and Cobbosseecontee Lake was perfectly still, a mirror reflecting a sky thick with billowing clouds. Em Russell was standing on the stern of a little motorboat, wearing ...
On a recent morning at the University of New England’s marine-science center, in Biddeford, Peaches the lobster was in a prickly mood, scurrying backward and forward, claws splayed, when a visitor ...
It’s early evening, the sun is low in the sky, and I’m gazing out the window of a floatplane, with bush pilot Josh Brown’s voice ringing tinny in my headset. Only seconds ago, he’d apologized for the ...
Growing up in Southwest Harbor, Lia Morris spent her childhood surrounded by boats. It was inevitable. She had a boatyard in her backyard, because her father, Tom Morris, was a boatbuilder and the ...
Last summer, Scott Kern welcomed a pair of visitors to Sand Island, in Casco Bay, for a “10-out-of-10, five-star VIP tour.” It began in a vine-covered hut he constructed from salvaged lumber collected ...
On a raw, overcast afternoon last winter, members of Mostly Maine Frosty Fleet No. 9 arrived in the parking lot of the Kittery Point Yacht Club, in New Castle, New Hampshire, and began unloading ...
“Reading that book was a big help,” says Marceau, who has now lived and raised cattle at his gentleman’s farm in north Searsmont for 22 years. “Ben Ames Williams walked my road and fished in the ...
Before you get cute and ask: no, there is no candlestick maker at downtown Bangor’s The Butcher The Baker. Nor does the name refer neatly to co-owners Carl Birmingham and Brittany LeVasseur — chef and ...
And the tides rose and fell on the shore. For nearly 50 years, the cover of the children’s classic The Little Island attributed these opening lines to one Golden MacDonald. In 1947, when the book’s ...
Rowman & Littlefield [A] good lobster stew has a divine color, and it is good to make it ahead. A young Canadian friend visiting in the States a few years ago ordered a lobster stew at a diner and ...
As a boy, Lon Cameron spent summers with his grandparents in Caribou, cooking up projects. With his grandmother, he crafted ornaments and potholders and made ice cream by combining the ingredients in ...
On a bright, blustery afternoon last spring, six women rowers gathered next to a shingled equipment shed on Belfast Harbor and began putting on sweatbands and slim, inflatable life jackets. They ...
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