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 |
By Hilary Nangle on December 4, 2010
One of my favorite holiday events is the annual Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale and Demonstration. On Dec. 11, 2010, from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., more than 30 Native American artisans from Maine’s Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, and Micmac tribes will be selling their handmade ash-splint and sweetgrass basketry, demonstrating their craft, and singing, drumming, and [...]
Posted in Activities, Deals, Entertainment, Events, Free Stuff, Maine Highlands, Maine Made, Shopping, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Hudson Museum, Maine Indian Basketmakers, Orono |
By Hilary Nangle on December 3, 2010
So much happening this weekend in Maine, it’s hard to know where to begin. Here are three events that piqued my interest: • Eastport Historic Homes Christmas Tour, Dec. 4-5, 2010 Seven historic homes and the 1893 Romanesque Revival-style Peavey Memorial Library, in way down east Eastport, are opening their doors for a self-guided house [...]
Posted in Activities, Down East Coast, Events, Maine Made, Shopping, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Western Lakes & Mountains, Where to go | Tagged Brownfield, Eastport, Stone Mountain Arts Center, Sunday River |
By Hilary Nangle on December 3, 2010
Shopping for that perfect gift that says only in Maine? Since 1996, founder, director, and curator Nancy 3. Hoffman (the 3 is no typo, she legally changed her middle name from Arlene to 3 in 1992) has operated the Umbrella Cover Museum, a small, quirky museum paying homage to the lowly umbrella cover. Inside, Hoffman [...]
Posted in Activities, Greater Portland, Maine Made, Shopping, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Peaks Island, Portland, Umbrella Cover Museum |
By Hilary Nangle on November 16, 2010
Forgive me as I wipe the drool off my keyboard. For once, I’m not drooling over food, but rather over the magnificent artisan-made goods that will be shown at Artful Gifts. Slated to take place at Point Lookout, in Northport (just north of Camden), Nov. 19-21, 2010, this crafts show and sale features works by [...]
Posted in Activities, Events, Mid-Coast, Shopping, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Artful gifts, Camden, craft fair, Northport |
By Hilary Nangle on July 12, 2010
I love anything lavender, and the lavender tea I’m sipping just now is simply lovely. It comes from Maine’s Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village’s herb gardens. You can order it, as well as it other herbs and herbal products, online. Doing so helps support the last inhabited Shaker Village. I purchased it during my recent travels [...]
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By Hilary Nangle on July 7, 2010
Escape the heat wave on the Maine Coast by visiting Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, in Newcastle, for its annual Salad Days fund-raising event. This Saturday, July 10, make a $30 donation to Watershed, and in return you’ll an handmade, earthenware plate that you get to keep and the opportunity to fill it from [...]
Posted in Activities, Events, Food, Maine Made, Mid-Coast, Shopping, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged events, picnic, Salad Days, WAtershed Center |
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