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Campobello Island back in the spotlight
This year the island of Campobello is taking a spin in the spotlight. It’s the 50th anniversary of the establishing of Roosevelt Campobello International Park. And this year Ken Burns’ documentary series about three influential Roosevelts—Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor—premieres in the fall on PBS. Campobello figures prominently in the seven-part documentary. The small Canandian island,
The Eat Local Cookbook: Seasonal Recipes from a Maine Farm
A few years ago, Lisa Turner and her husband wrote a mission statement for their business at Laughing Stock Farm in Freeport. It is simple: to delight the palate. For the last decade and a half, they have farmed 15 acres and five greenhouses, providing flavorful produce to customers and family year-round. Local food, much
It’s All Covers
The boards are folded back at ice cream stands, the lobster shacks have their steam pots going, the tulips have given way to lilacs. This can all mean only one thing: The Umbrella Cover Museum will soon be open to visitors. That’s right. The Peaks Island attraction, whose motto is “celebrate the mundane in everyday
A tour behind the shipyard gates
A group of twenty people of varying ages climb aboard a trolley parked at the entrance of the Maine Maritime Museum. We’re headed down Washington Street to the naval shipyard at Bath Iron Works, which occupies 50 acres along the Kennebec River. For security purposes, we showed identification at the reception desk, signed our names,
In the black with Red’s Eats
Pass through the village of Wiscasset on any summer’s day, and you’ll see hungry customers lined up to order at Red’s Eats. The colorful lobster shack perched on the bank of the Sheepscot River is something of a legend, known for its flocks of visitors, lobster rolls piled high with meat, and penchant for drawing
Vegetable Corner: a mecca for local food
Twenty years ago, a young Hannah Tetreault and her friend sold strawberries and blueberries off of a card table at the intersection of Mountain and Harpswell Neck roads in Harpswell. Business boomed. Before long, her parents, Ray and Violet Tetreault, started adding vegetables from their garden. Then they brought in corn and produce grown by
Local newspaper anchors the community
Robert Anderson, a man of the sea, stands with feet wide apart, like he’s balancing on swells. The whiteboard in his office reads “fiddleheads, seals, license plates.” Those are ideas, he explains. Perhaps they’ll inspire stories beyond the town news he regularly publishes. The Cundy’s Harbor native has put out the Harpswell Anchor, a monthly
Pioneering girls-only leadership and science school opens doors
A crisp coat of snow blankets a broad pasture along the Wolfe’s Neck peninsula in Freeport, Maine. This is the view from the second floor window of a 1840s farmhouse converted to house a new, residential semester school, Coastal Studies for Girls. Just over the rise, not visible but only a short walk away, is
Master sailmaker still stitching in East Boothbay
Sunlight pours through a wall of windows and warms the wooden floor of a sail loft overlooking the Damariscotta River. Sam Upton sits on a stool. With leather thimble, polyester sail twine, ultra thick needle, and a tar and beeswax cake set near his thigh, he handstitches a bolt rope for a sail destined