In a frigid, bluebird Sunday afternoon last winter, the Lime City and Swan Vegas curling clubs gathered on Chickawaukie Pond, in Rockland, to crack jokes and beers before a “pondspiel” — a play on the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I was a child, Squirrel Island was another name for heaven, with the blue sky overhead and the blue sea all around it. From 1878, when I was an infant of six months, until 1905, when I was ...

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 ...

About nine years ago, Maine’s small farms found themselves at a tipping point. Heather Retberg felt the shift firsthand at her Quill’s End Farm in Penobscot, when a state agriculture inspector showed ...

Schooners have at least two masts, with the largest mast, or mainmast, located second from the bow. The majority of cruise sailboats in Camden Harbor are schooners originally designed as working boats ...

[cs_drop_cap letter=”A” color=”#3660ac” size=”5em” ] few years ago, after having not worked a regular job for over a decade, I took a gig with a soup ...

For many people, their image of Maine is understandably tied to the ocean, with its almost 3,500 miles of coastline, yet Maine water also runs deep inland with 2,500 lakes and ponds across the state.

In late May, a Brunswick weather station measured the mercury at 25 degrees. Farmers across what would become Maine (still four years from statehood in 1816) fretted about crops while newspapers ...