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 ...

In November of 2016, brothers Mark and Steve Ferguson were on their way to a craft fair in Oakland to sell restored vintage axes. At the time, Mark and Steve, together with their longtime friend Barry ...

On a bitterly cold, bluebird afternoon last winter, a trio of women in matching blaze-orange parkas gathered at Quarry Road Trails, in Waterville, to will a Greek goddess from a hunk of snow. They’d ...

Down East Magazine STOP! the note commands, in big red letters. What follows are simple directions for taking the rope out of the bag tangle free. “Removal by other means will create a mess and make ...

Nowhere in coastal Maine, where hardships are crowned with pointed firs and trimmed with a shimmering sea, is there a crisis more beautifully evinced than in Northeast Harbor. Staid and understated, ...

In the 1980s, Kevin Slater was working for the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School as a winter-program director and needed to hire a leader for a backcountry-skiing course supported by two dog teams ...

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 ...

Franklin County: Potato Beer The Maine Potato Ale, brewed at Sugarloaf resort’s Bag and Kettle, is a staple of the après-ski scene, and it’s exactly what it sounds like: beer brewed with Caribou ...

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 ...

Back in the 1930s, a ski slope in Waterville opened, served by a rope tow, one of the first of its kind in Maine. The little downhill destination shut down during World War II, but the Colby College ...

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 ...

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