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In the seaside neighborhood of Goose Rocks Beach in Kennebunkport, Maine, the battle between public and private beach access is playing out with an intensity that threatens to fracture the community.
Learn how a Maine couple added a budget DIY screened-in porch to their new home without subtracting too much from their wallet.
Looking for fun in the Constitution State? You won’t have to look far! Read our picks for the best attractions in Connecticut. BEST WET & DRY ADVENTURES BROWNSTONE EXPLORATION & DISCOVERY PARK, Portland In a quarry that dates to the dinosaurs, find 21st-century ziplining, rock climbing, scuba diving, snorkeling, swimming, wakeboarding, mountain biking, and kayaking. […]
Maine photographer Winky Lewis captured two Maine islands for our day trips travel feature. The following photographs are from her explorations of the small and accessible Peaks Island. For Winky, the islands of Maine are each so unique and beautiful. Peaks is just a short ferry ride from her home in Portland, but feels so […]
Just pedal or stroll and breathe in the salt air on Peaks Island, with views to tempt a sea captain. MORNING: Chances are you won’t be alone on the 20-minute Casco Bay Lines ferry ride over to Peaks Island; the nearly hourly departures are pretty full, at least on weekends. But once you land, in the […]
A shot of Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth, Me.
[slideshow post_id=”380062″] Maine photographer Winky Lewis captured two Maine islands for our day trips travel feature. The following images are from her day spent exploring remote Monhegan Island. In Winky’s words, Monhegan is an amazing little jewel so far from the mainland. The beauty of the place engulfs you immediately as you step off the […]
Pinching pennies never felt so good! Check out our picks for the best bargains in Maine for 2013. Your wallet will thank you. BEST CITY DINER PALACE DINER, Biddeford Maine’s oldest diner is a gem, a 1926 Pollard towed here from Lowell, Massachusetts, by two horses in the same year Lindbergh flew over the […]
Though I don’t get to the University of Maine Museum of Art, two hours north of me in downtown Bangor, very often, I have never been disappointed when I have. The Alan Bray exhibition I saw there last fall was the best solo show I saw all year and the I-95 Triennial 2013 (through June […]
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DeCordova’s Boston Biennial
Back in 1987, the then-DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, mounted New England Now: Contemporary Art from Six States, a truly authoritative regional survey of the sort that New England needs. The DeCordova became the New England regional hub for new art under curator Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, but, now renamed DeCordova […]
A few years ago, I wrote a short profile of photographer David Brooks Stess for the pages of the July/August 2009 Yankee. Many of the black and white photographs featured in that article are now part of the Blueberry Rakers: Photography by David Brooks Stess exhibition at Portland Museum of Art (through May 19). Though […]