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 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 ...

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 ...

Great Duck Island is a notoriously tough place to land a boat. There’s no dock, just a steep, slippery ramp on the island’s exposed south side, which can only be approached in a Zodiac on a day when ...

Wakey, wakey, eggs and bakey! And, um, a whole lot more. We got up early and ate our way across the state to bring you this definitive list of Vacationland’s most mouthwatering breakfast dishes — ...

Text and Photos by Dave Waddell From our March 2026 Ocean Issue I stepped onto the deck of the Grace Bailey on a sunny late-summer morning, and a crew member led me to my cabin so I could unpack and ...

When printmaker Anastasia Inciardi moved to Portland, in 2020, quarters were hard to come by. Fewer people emptying their pockets at banks and stores during the pandemic had caused a nationwide coin ...

For six years, farmers Alaena Robbins and Dylan Watters split their time between a one-room cabin at Scarborough’s Broadturn Farm, where Robbins manages the greenhouse, and a vintage camper trailer at ...

Lucas St. Clair works very hard to make people forget Roxanne Quimby. As the new face of the plan to create a national park in northern Maine, he has opened once-closed land to hunting and ATVs and ...

When it comes to scenery, the coastal enclave of Camden has an embarrassment of riches — its huddled collection of quaint inns, shops, and restaurants; the footbridge over the Megunticook River that ...

Major landmarks on outer Congress Street, across I-295 from downtown Portland, include a Dunkin’, a couple of gas stations, and a shopping plaza with a CVS and a Shaw’s. Next door to Eddie’s Nails, ...

“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 ...