Escape the leaf-peeping crowds
If I wanted to lose the tour buses, the vehicle parades, the lines and the masses, and I wanted to not only see the...
Golf and sail the Maine Coast
You want to sail, partner wants to golf; not a problem: The Maine Windjammer Association has you both covered with three packages that add...
You could win Maine’s Blue Hill Inn
Envision the perfect country inn, a classic with the charm and elegance of that in the old Bob Newhart Show, and it could be...
Sweet dreams at the Blue Hill Inn
Two nights at the Blue Hill Inn isn't nearly enough time to enjoy the inn, never mind the Blue Hill Peninsula and Deer Isle.
I...
The view from here …
...is mighty fine. Here being The Inn on the Harbor, in Stonington. It sits tight to Main street, but literally hangs over the harbor,...
Puffins, warblers, and eagles, oh my!
Deer Isle is going to the birds. The third annual Wings, Waves & Woods festival of birding and art, sponsored by the Island Heritage...
Maine’s Blue Hill peninsula delivers coastal Maine without the crowds
Maine's dreamy Blue Hill Peninsula is an off-the-beaten-path treasure. Galleries, restaurants, and small shops pepper the byways webbing a rolling landscape that's carved in granite, fringed with spruce, and splashed with ponds.
Craving lobster?
I recently wrote a story for the Boston Globe about my favorite Maine lobster shacks. For those who didn't see it, I've added it...
More reasons to wail and whine
More sad news from Maine's coast. The Oakland House, one of my faves, will not reopen this season.
Fourth-generation innkeeper Jim Littlefield, and his wife...
Maine waterfront hotels on working wharves
At these three Maine waterfront hotels, you can fall asleep listening to the waves lap and awaken to lobster boats chugging out to sea....
Rusticating at The Rusticator
As I noted previously, this year the Oakland House, in Brooksville, has embarked on a relationship with Richard Hansen, of Cleonice, in Ellsworth, to...
Flash! In the Pans!
A steel pan band is not what you'd expect to fine in Down East Maine, never mind in sedate and serene (at least on...
News & Chews: The Rusticator
Few resorts evoke that old-timey Maine spirit as The Oakland House, in Brooksville, facing Eggemoggin Reach. The property, comprising 15 cottages, an inn and...
All in the Family
Previously I've blogged about the Oakland House, which has been in Jim Littlefield's family since it was awarded in the mid 1600s as a...
Midcoast Maine Lighthouse Challenge lets you climb beacon towers
Once each year, seven land-accessible lighthouses along the mid-Maine coast open their towers for the Midcoast Maine Lighthouse Challenge, a two-day self-guided driving tour...