By Hilary Nangle on July 31, 2011
If you get a sample of what it really was like during the hey day of Maine’s Great Age of Logging, make plans to visit the Ambejejus Boom House, on Ambejejus Lake, near Millinocket and Baxter State Park. It’s been 35 years since Maine’s last logging drive, 35 years since trees felled in the northern [...]
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By Hilary Nangle on July 29, 2011
If you love the sounds of a brass band, get yourself to Bethel on Saturday, July 30, for the Second Ripley Brass Band Festival. Not just any brass instruments, mind you, the Yankee Brass Band will be performing 19th-century music on antique instruments. They’ll be joined by three other bands: the Carter Mountain Brass Band, [...]
Posted in Activities, Deals, Entertainment, Events, Free Stuff, Trip Planning, Western Lakes & Mountains, Where to go | Tagged Bethel, Brass Band concert, free, outdoor concert |
By Hilary Nangle on July 28, 2011
Don’t let summer slip away before you’ve had a chance to embrace at least one of these 10 made-for-the-memory-books Maine vacation experiences. 1. Hike in the 100-Mile Wilderness Using the Appalachian Mountain Club’s new Gorman Chairback Lodge and Cabins as a base, spend a few days hiking in the 100-Mile Wilderness region, northeast of Greenville. [...]
Posted in Activities, Birding/wildlife viewing, Boating, Hiking | Tagged 100-mile Wilderness, Baxter State Park, bike tour, Coos Canyon, Down East Nature Tours, Flagstaff Lake, gold panning, Gorman Chairback Lodge and Cabins, Grain Surfboards, Greenville, Katahdin, Maine Huts, Maine Minerology Adventures, Marshall Island, Michael Good, Millinocket, Northern Forest Canoe Trail, Old Quarry Ocean Adventures, Oxford Hills, rock hounding, Stonington, Summer Feet, surfing, York |
By Hilary Nangle on July 26, 2011
Say good-bye to July in Maine at one of these great festivals. There’s something for everyone: folk arts, quilts, artisan quilts, and books. Grand Lake Stream Folk Arts Festival Held way Down East in Grand Lake Stream (which gives meaning to the joke, ya cahn’t get they-ah from he-ah). Trust me, this one’s a gem, [...]
Posted in Down East Coast, Events, Kennebec and Moose River Valleys, Penobscot Bay, Trip Planning | Tagged Artisan Bread Fair, Augusta, Belfast, Belfast Bound Book Festival, Grand Lake Stream, Grand Lake Stream Folk Arts Festival, Maine Quilts, The Kneading Conference |
By Hilary Nangle on July 25, 2011
Maine’s newest summer theater company is performing with out a theater. The young MaineStage Shakespeare, is performing works by William Shakespeare outdoors in Lafayette Park, downtown Kennebunk (in Town Hall Auditorium, when it rains). The nonprofit company is staging Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, and a child-friendly version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, [...]
Posted in Activities, Deals, Entertainment, Free Stuff, Moon guidebook updates, Southern Coast/Beaches, Trip Planning | Tagged Kennebunk, MaineStage Shakespeare, Shakespeare |
By Hilary Nangle on July 22, 2011
Miyake has barely been in its new location in the Portland Harbor Hotel building on Fore Street for a week, but judging from my lunch there earlier this week, Chef Masa Miyake and his staff are already feeling at home. I met two friends (a food writer and a newly minted culinary school grad) there [...]
Posted in Food, Greater Portland, Moon guidebook updates, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Miyake, Portland, restaurant, review |
By Hilary Nangle on July 21, 2011
We’re looking at a few days of scorching heat, at least by Maine standards. Keep that in mind: It IS worse elsewhere. And many of those those other places aren’t rich with nature’s natural coolers: mountains, lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, and miles upon miles of oceanfront. 1. Hit the beach Hint: If you’re going to [...]
Posted in Activities, Boating, Food, Maine Made, Sightseeing | Tagged beaches, boat trips, Ice cream, islands, museums, rafting, watervalls |
By Hilary Nangle on July 20, 2011
Psst: Seeking Maine’s best bagels? Hankering for a taste of the Southwest? Mosey over the Casco Bay Bridge to South Portland (SoPo, if you’re feeling trendy), and check out these two spots. Scratch Baking Co: Bagels! Getting decent bagels in Maine is a challenge (whenever New York friends visit, they know the perfect hostess gift [...]
Posted in Food, Greater Portland, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Maine's best bagels, Mexican food in southern Maine, reviews, Scratch Baking Co., South Portland, Taco Trio |
By Hilary Nangle on July 19, 2011
I had the good fortune to sail aboard American’s oldest active commercial schooner, the Lewis R. French, during the Maine Windjammer Association’s annual Parade of Sail by Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse. At the helm as we sailed out of Camden was the youngest captain in the fleet, Garth Wells Garth purchased the French in 2003 after [...]
Posted in Boating, Events, Food, Penobscot Bay, Recipes, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Camden, Italian Sausage Soup, Maine Windjammer Association, Parade of Sail, Rockland, Rockland Breakwater light, Schooner Lewis R. French |
By Hilary Nangle on July 18, 2011
I began researching a new edition of my Moon Acadia National Park guidebook with an overnight at Maine’se Bass Cottage Inn, in Bar Harbor, and dinner at its new restaurant, 10 Tables. Kudos to innkeepers Jeff and Terri Anderholm for this nice addition to the Mount Desert Island dining scene. 10 Tables fills a niche. [...]
Posted in Acadia, Food, Moon guidebook updates, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged 10 Tables, Bar Harbor, Bass Cottage Inn, new restaurant in Bar Harbor, restaurant, review |
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