Maine

Acadia National Park | Photos

A collection of images celebrating the wild beauty of Maine’s Acadia National Park from authors and photographers Jerry and Marcy Monkman.

Maine

Bucksport, Maine | The Town That Refused to Die

When the paper mill that had defined Bucksport, Maine, for eight decades shut down just before Christmas 2014, the town, like others before it, could have withered away. Instead, something else happened.

Magazine

Girl Power in New England | Cara Belvin and EmpowerHer

Reaching out to girls who have lost their mothers, Cara Belvin is on a deeply personal mission to help them open up to others and reconnect with joy. Learn more about Cara and her nonprofit EmpowerHer.

Magazine

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 […]

Magazine

Celeste Ng | Knowledge & Wisdom

Credit: Kevin Day Photography  “You should be able to count on the goodwill and generosity of others to survive … and by ‘others’ I mean our society and our society safety net. ‘Others’ is all of us.” —Celeste Ng (born July 30, 1980). Exploring ideas of race, class, and family, this Cambridge, Massachusetts, author first […]

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