Portland to Boston: Bus or train?

By Hilary Nangle on January 31, 2013 | 3 Comments

Debating the best way to travel between Boston and points in Maine? The best options are the Concord Coachlines bus service or the Amtrak Downeaster train service. Here’s the skinny on both: Concord Coachlines bus service The Concord Coachlines bus has extremely frequent service between Boston’s Logan Airport, Boston’s South Station, and Portland’s Transportation Center, [...]

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Handy links for trip planning

By Hilary Nangle on May 3, 2010 | Leave a comment

VisitMaine: the state’s official tourism website with links to everything and then some. Maine: Everything official Maine. Maine weather by zone: Click and get localized reports and forecasts. Get Real Maine: One-stop link shopping for Maine foods and farms, including farmers markets, farm vacations, farm stores, etc.

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Maine’s top Celtic music venue draws world-class talent to Carthage

Maine’s top Celtic music venue draws world-class talent to Carthage

By Hilary Nangle on April 28, 2013 | 2 Comments

Psst, I’m going to let you in on a little secret, Skye Theatre, in Carthage (get out your Delorme; trust me, GPS won’t help you find with this spot). West of Farmington, about a mile up, up, up a good ole Maine dirt road, inside a Tyvek-covered barn, Phill McIntyre has created a first class [...]

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Spring skiing at the ‘loaf: It doesn’t get any better than this

Spring skiing at the ‘loaf: It doesn’t get any better than this

By Hilary Nangle on April 26, 2013 | Leave a comment

If it ain’t over until the fat lady sings, then she’s barely warming up at Sugarloaf, where the mountain still has excellent cover. I skied today (April 26, 2013), and the conditions were excellent, a mix of granular and corn/creamed corn with some soft patches, but no slush. King’s Landing, Gauge, Sluice, Gondy, Wedge were [...]

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Nibbles and bites: News from Maine’s Blue Hill/Deer Isle peninsula

By Hilary Nangle on April 24, 2013 | Leave a comment

I’m a sucker for the Blue Hill/Deer Isle peninsula, and one of the things I love about the area is the commitment to locally sourced foods. In a good news/bad news email, innkeeper Sarah Pebworth, of the Blue Hill Inn, gave me some updates from the region. For starters, Chef Devin is not returning to [...]

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Meet the innkeepers: Crocker Pond House, Bethel, Maine

Meet the innkeepers: Crocker Pond House, Bethel, Maine

By Hilary Nangle on April 12, 2013 | Leave a comment

Dusk’s smoky skies are descending as I motor along the North Road, a rural byway paralleling the Androscoggin River’s eastern shoreline between Bethel and Gilead. Lacelike flurries, the advance scouts of an approaching storm, tat the windshield and dance in the headlights. The woods framing the road are disappearing into shadows, but I can still [...]

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Stand up, ski down: Sugarloaf’s Reggae Weekend celebrates 25 years

Stand up, ski down: Sugarloaf’s Reggae Weekend celebrates 25 years

By Hilary Nangle on April 9, 2013 | Leave a comment

Sun is shining, the weather is sweet, yeah Make you wanna move your dancing feet now. … Want you to know, y’all, can you understand?” (Sun is Shining, by Bob Marley) Understand this: Whether you want to stand up or ski down, what you want to know about is Reggae Weekend, Sugarloaf/USA’s annual “What happens [...]

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