A celebration in photographs of Maine Coast Heritage Trust and its 50-year history as a conservation game-changer.
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Yankee editors pick the top dining, lodging, and attractions in Maine in our first-ever Hall of Fame list.
A collection of images from photographer Tristan Spinski highlighting Fryeburg Maine’s most well-known annual event — the Fryeburg Fair.
Looking for top-notch dining, lodging, and attractions in the Pine Tree State? Here are 30 picks from our editors for the best of Maine.
The Worcester fire of 1999 was dangerous, but the kind the firefighters fought several times each year. Then something happened, and everything when black. Learn more in this 2000 Yankee classic.
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The Tinkerer of Dickinson’s Reach
Five wheelbarrows are scattered haphazardly around a large ground-floor workshop in an eccentric, circular building in the woods just a two-minute walk from Maine’s rocky coastline. None of the wheelbarrows looks like the others, and frankly, none looks much like a wheelbarrow. They’re all handmade, four of them by a man named Bill Coperthwaite. (The […]
Leave the crush of shoppers scavenging for bargains in Kittery behind, and head to the charming village of Kittery Point, Maine, for a day of exploring.
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The Essence of Appledore
Eating what you gather on an island can change how you look at food—and even life itself.
Dublin, NH (April 2018) — From Cape Cod to the White Mountains to the Maine coast, Yankee’s annual Best of New England summer travel guide (May/June 2018) is filled with inspiration for the ultimate New England summer getaway. With more than 200 recommendations from the experts at Yankee, the issue is chock-full of the best […]
New England
2018 Editors’ Picks for Food Lovers
From ice cream to fine dining, here are some of our favorite ideas for foodies in New England.
Sixty years ago, Olga Huckins of Duxbury, Massachusetts, sent a letter to a friend describing the state’s aerial spraying of DDT on her property. Furious and frightened by the dead songbirds she’d seen afterward, Huckins thought her friend could help raise the alarm about this “spraying of poisons from the air.” The friend was writer […]
Maine
The Maine Beer Trail
From a long chrome tap that looked more as if it should be used to fill balloons than a pint, the black-brown liquid began to cascade into the glass, with milky white bubbles creating a swirling, opaque waterfall as they rose to the top. I watched the show, mesmerized, as the beer slowed and a […]