Maine’s Belgrade Lakes: the real On Golden Pond
Long before the movie, Maine's Belgrade Lakes were drawing fishermen, summer rusticators, writers, and even beauty queens. On Golden Pond, that dreamy sunset-of-life film...
Fiddle with family and friends at the Maine Fiddle Camp this summer
Bunk down in primitive cabins or pitch a tent, dine outdoors under a tent, and fiddle the days and nights away at the lakeside...
Maine’s L. C. Bates Museum is an authentic cabinet of curiosities
I mean, really, where else in Maine, or New England for that matter, can you see a trophy marlin caught by Ernest Hemmingway; a...
Know before you go: Tips for international visitors to Maine and for U.S. citizens...
If you're visiting Maine from another country, or if you're a U.S. citizen whose planning to dip over the border to Canada (perhaps to...
Dana Moos, innkeeper at Portland’s Pomegranate Inn, defines The Art of Breakfast
Yesterday, I had the good fortune to attend a brunch at Portland's Pomegranate Inn launching Dana Moos' new cookbook, The Art of Breakfast: How...
Maine’s azalea and lilac gardens blossom with spring’s tidings
Azaleas, rhododendrons, and lilacs are beginning to blossom, and these Maine public gardens are full of their color and promise. Note: Some have donation...
The Maine Travel Maven shares her Best of Maine picks for Yankee Mag on...
One of my more fun and challenging assignments for the best few years has been picking the Best of Maine for Yankee Magazine. (I...
Don’t miss Kingfield POPS: great music and art in western Maine in June
Singer/songwriter Dave Mallett, a Maine icon; the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, with Grammy Award-winning maestro Lucas Richman; R&B/Soul singer Leah Tysse; fiddle legend and MPBN...
Unwind at two Portland, Maine, wine dinners in May
Make reservations now to sip and savor at two upcoming Wine Dinners in Portland, Maine: first at Local 188 on Monday, May 16, and...
Celebrate spring with a Maine fiddlehead recipe from Chef Kaldrovich, of the Sea Glass...
I asked Chef Mitchell Kaldrovich to share a recipe for one of Maine's favorite spring delicacies, fiddleheads.
“I am very excited to have our forager...
Love to paddle? Don’t miss the Paddlers Film Festival in Portland, Maine
Five documentary films about recreational canoeing and kayaking will be screened at the 4th Annual Paddlers Film Festival, at the Eastland Park Hotel...
Learn to find and prepare wild mushrooms in Mid-coast Maine
Every now and then I stumble across an innovative lodging package, one that goes well beyond the ho-hum usual offering of room, meals, and...
Pet-friendly Inn by the Sea is dog heaven
When it comes to pet-friendly travel in Maine, the Inn by the Sea, in Cape Elizabeth, does everything right.
So says Bernie, my almost-five-year-old Leonberger...
Seguinland artists exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art, summer 2011
Oh dear! With the opening of Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900–1940 at the Portland Museum of Art on June 4, I fear the...
Checking Inn: Rockland’s Granite Inn
After an afternoon of nibbling my way through downtown Rockland, sampling pie after pie after pie last Sunday, innkeepers Ed and Joan Hantz invited...