By Hilary Nangle on September 5, 2012
Here’s a delicious way to spend Friday: Maine Fare, a celebration of Maine Food and Farming, bought to you by the good folks at Maine Farmland Trust. The daylong event (Sept. 7) takes place in downtown Belfast and offers everything from nibbles and tastes to a gourmet lunch and local plates dinners. The Farmers’ Market [...]
Posted in Activities, Entertainment, Events, Food, Maine Made, Penobscot Bay, Resources, Shopping, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Belfast, Maine Fare |
By Hilary Nangle on August 31, 2012
If it weren’t for Skip Brack, it’s likely the rural town of Liberty, Maine, a dip off Route 3 just inland from coastal Belfast, would be bypassed by all but the handful of folks who call it home. Between 1976 and 1986, Brack purchased and restored Liberty’s downtown buildings (all three of them), and created [...]
Posted in Activities, Mid-Coast, Shopping, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Liberty, Liberty Tool, tools |
By Hilary Nangle on August 16, 2012
Watch enough TV, and you have an image embedded in your brain of a Maine seaside village. It’s part Hawkeye Pierce’s Crabapple Cove (M.A.S.H.), part Jessica Fletcher’s Cabot Cove (Murder She Wrote), with a dash of Fox TV’s Murder in Small Town X. Welcome to Eastport, Maine, where local author Sarah Graves sets her Home [...]
Posted in Activities, Birding/wildlife viewing, Boating, Down East Coast, Hiking, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Maine Made, Shopping, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Eastport, Kilby House Inn |
By Hilary Nangle on August 8, 2012
Whenever I visit Maine’s Schoodic Peninsula, home to the only mainland section of Acadia National Park, I also detour out to Corea, a lobstering village in the town of Gouldsboro. Corea tips a peninsula that until 2002, was also home to a Navy base. Now it’s a sleepy spot with dreamy views: The boat-filled harbor [...]
Posted in Acadia, Activities, Birding/wildlife viewing, Hiking, Shopping, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Chapter Two, Corea, Corea Heath, Corea Wharf Gallery |
By Hilary Nangle on June 19, 2012
I asked accessible travel maven Candy Harrington to write a guest post about accessible travel in Maine. Here she shares her thoughts on Freeport’s Harraseeket Inn, which has made the necessary modifications to welcome guests with mobility issues. Innkeepers make their properties accessible for a variety of reasons. For some, it’s just the right thing [...]
Posted in Birding/wildlife viewing, Greater Portland, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Shopping, Tips, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged accessible lodging, accessible travel, barrier-free travel, Candy Harrington, Freeport |
By Hilary Nangle on May 7, 2012
Hallowell hugs the Kennebec River just south of Maine’s capital city, Augusta. Once a major port for ice, granite, and lumber, the well-preserved late-19th-century downtown, now a National Historic District, entices visitors with shops and restaurants. What to do in Hallowell, Maine Shop! Water Street is lined with galleries, independent boutiques, specialty shops, and nearly [...]
Posted in Activities, Food, Kennebec and Moose River Valleys, Lodging, Shopping, Where to go | Tagged Hallowell |
By Hilary Nangle on December 8, 2011
Seeking a gift for the person who has everything? Why not give a Maine gift that gives back and supports the state’s natural beauty by adopting a whale or a puffin or a snowy egret in his or her name. You can adopt a whale through College of the Atlantic-affiliated Allied Whale. Choose from 11 [...]
Posted in Activities, Maine Made, Shopping | Tagged adopt a snowy egret, Adopt a whale, Adopt-a-puffin, allied whale, Maine Audubon, Puffin Project |
By Hilary Nangle on October 10, 2011
Maine’s Blue Hill Peninsula exudes the essence of what what many people picture when they dream about the Maine coast. It’s off the beaten track, a rolling landscape carved in granite, fringed with spruce, splashed with ponds, sprinkled with galleries, salted with farmsteads, and peppered with those classic big house-little house-back house-barn houses that art [...]
Posted in Activities, Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Maine Made, Moon guidebook updates, Shopping, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged bagaduce forge, Bagaduce Lunch, bakeries, bets's sunflower, blossom studio, Blue Hill Peninsula, Brooklin, brooklin inn, Brooksville, buck's harbor market, bucks restaurant, Eggemoggin Textile STudio, fourseason farm, galleries, good life center, Handmade papers, Hiram Blake Camps, holbrook island sanctuary, mainehooked rugs, Mermaid woolens, Oakland House, paul heroux, Puschart Press Bookstore, Reach Road Gallery, restaurants, scott goldberg, sedgewick antiques, Sedgwick, sow's ear winery, the cave, tinder hearth bakery, Wooden Boat |
By Hilary Nangle on December 21, 2010
Recession? What recession? Every time I think Portland’s reached the restaurant saturation mark, a new wave of openings is announced. A couple of weeks ago, while at Pai Men Miyake, I learned that Masa Miyake has leased the spot adjacent to Paciarino in the Portland Harbor Hotel building on Fore Street and plans to open [...]
Posted in Activities, Food, Greater Portland, Moon guidebook updates, Shopping, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Portland, Reny's, resturants |
By Hilary Nangle on December 10, 2010
In addition to the Maine Indian Basketmakers Show and Sale in Orono on Saturday, here are a few other events you might want to check out this weekend: Dec. 10-11: Fire & Ice, Kennebunkport Warm up after power shopping in K’port. Sample hors d’oeuvres from area restaurants, enjoy live entertainment, and belly up to the [...]
Posted in Activities, Events, Food, Maine Highlands, Maine Made, Mid-Coast, Shopping, Southern Coast/Beaches, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Boothbay, Christmas Prelude, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Kennebunkport |
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