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Boats Of The Year

Along The Shore

Reading, Writing, and Outboards

Maritime learning for Lincoln Academy students

Ice Time in Rockport

An old-fashioned ice harvest

Winslow Myers in Motion

In his paintings, Nobleboro artist Winslow Myers seeks to represent the mystery of reality.

Luders 16s Reprise their Championship Regatta

After a nearly two-decades-long pause, the Luders 16 class rallied in Northeast Harbor to crown an international champion.

A Fisherman’s Tale

A saltwater fisherman shares helpful advice for weathering the long cold hiatus before the stripers and blues return.

Dorothy, Oh Dorothy

A brief encounter with a salty looking workboat leaves an artist wondering about what might have been.

Salmon, Shrimp, Whale Pods, and a Chowder Race

News, news, and even more news

Junk Journeys

A Gouldsboro Point sailor plies the coast on her junk-rigged sailing barge, Great Auk.

When Cattle Pounds Kept Strays at Bay

In rural Maine, the town cattle pound helped keep the peace.

“Man plans. God laughs.”

Maine Yacht Center in Portland was never meant to build one of the hottest sailboats on the international offshore racing circuit—but that’s exactly what happened.

Articles from our sponsors

Magalloway Conservation Project: Land Trusts Rally to Preserve Western Maine Landscape

The collective efforts of four groups working to protect the Magalloway

Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation: Preserving a very special wild river and its legacy

On July 28, 1857, Penobscot guide Joe Polis paddled his birch bark canoe across Eagle Lake to Pillsbury Island before returning to camp on the north shore of Chamberlain Lake, with Henry David Thoreau in the bow, and laden with 150 pounds of gear, to see the party safely from the shores of Moosehead Lake to Indian Island on the Penobscot River.

Maine Coast Heritage Trust

Inviting Islands

Forest Society of Maine: Conservation Connections from the Forests to the Coast

This page is sponsored by the Ocean Ledges Fund of the Maine Community Foundation with the goal of supporting education and conservation.

Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries

It’s 3 a.m. on a mid-September morning as Captain Matt Trundy swings his 43-foot fishing boat F/V Savanna Says toward the thorofare off Stonington Harbor.

Coastal Mountains Land Trust

Prominent by sea and land, the coastal mountains that run along the western side of Penobscot Bay east to Mount Desert island are part of a scenic landscape that defines the incredible sense of place of this region.

Saving wild fish and their rivers

Since 1982 the Downeast Salmon Federation has worked tirelessly with citizens, local government, state and federal agencies, and tribal communities to assure that our rivers and communities stay special and continue to thrive.

Creating the Silicon Valley of Climate Change

When one hears the words Silicon Valley, one often thinks of the world’s tech capital, where giants such as Google, Facebook, and Hewlett-Packard emerged as giants. Silicon Valley became the epicenter of tech, where the best and brightest scientists and developers were met with venture capital and government funding to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges.