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Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle

The peninsula including Blue Hill, Brooklin, Sedgwick, Brooksville, Castine, Cape Rosier, Deer Isle, Stonington, and Isle au Haut.

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 Inn on the Harbor, in Stonington, Maine, provides a front row seat on all the action in the harbor, from lobster boats to windjammers. Hilary Nangle photo.

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...
Artists and artisans along with farmers and bakers can be found in the towns bordering Maine's Eggemoggin Reach. Hilary Nangle photo

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...
Watch lobster boats unload their catches from The inn at the Wharf, in Lubec, Maine. Hilary Nangle photo.

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...