Unlike most National Parks and despite its proximity to the city, a visit to the Boston Harbor Islands can still feel like a secret escape.
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Round Mountain Sunset
Sunset over the White Mountains of New Hampshire from Round Mountain in Albany, Maine.
The two most prevalent types of New England seafood shacks are clam shacks and lobster shacks. How do they differ? How are they alike? Does it really matter? Let’s take a look
In mid-May 2014, they came together on Indian Island, the heart of the Penobscot Nation. They were Thoreau scholars, Maine Guides, advocates of North Woods tourism, members of the Penobscot Nation, whose ancestors had guided Henry David Thoreau into the wilderness. The 325-mile journey would follow his 1857 trip with Penobscot guide Joe Polis into […]
Tucked just at the edge of Acadia National Park, Winter Harbor is the epitome of that classic Maine town we all dream about when we think of summer. The coastal town draws in artists, fishermen and vacationers alike. Please enjoy these select photographs of Winter Harbor, Maine, captured by contributing photographer Carl Tremblay last year.
Homer’s Place
A fisherman’s shack on the harbor in Port Clyde, Maine
Georgetown Harbor
A beautiful summer day in Georgetown, Maine on the edge of Sheepscot Bay.
Rockland Harbor
View of the Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse during an evening sail in Rockland, Maine.
Where can a history-loving Yankee go to commemorate the Civil War? These 5 coastal forts are a great place to start.
Songo Sunset
Sunset over Songo Pond in Bethel, Maine
No one goes till everyone goes. That’s the way it’s always been on Trap Day on Monhegan, when the island’s lobstermen first set their traps off the darkened shoreline of one of Maine’s most storied offshore communities. On September’s last day, islanders begin re-enacting old rituals as Monhegan’s fleet of rusted, un-muffled pickup trucks lumber down […]
Over the past decade, photographer Sara Gray’s travel assignments have taken her nearly everywhere in New England. She lives in southern Maine, but her eye finds beauty in any number of other places. Even though many of us have expensive digital cameras, not all travel photography is equal. To find out what goes into making […]