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Maine Attraction Water Ski Show is Broadway on Water

Flips, jumps, twirls, pyramids—they’re all part of the Maine Attraction Water Ski Show on summer evenings in Sanford.

Lise Bécu’s Benevolent Hand

Tenants Harbor-based sculptor Lise Bécu brings life to stone.

Boats For Golden Pond

With a yearning for a classic mahogany runabout, an intrepid boat guy ponders an affordable and doable kit boat.

Loving and Conserving the North Woods

From 1990 to 2015, a wide array of individuals and organizations cooperatively pitched in to preserve the wilderness they found in Maine’s North Woods.

A Grand Camp

By chance, on a stop en route to a Canadian fishing trip, a New York angler discovers what will become his “magnificent” camp on a lake the in the North Woods.

Reading, Writing, and Outboards

Maritime learning for Lincoln Academy students

Ice Time in Rockport

An old-fashioned ice harvest

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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 Briefs

Boat Show News

The 2025 Maine Boat & Home Show poster features art by Stephen Florimbi

A plein air painter's perfect summer day sets the scene.

Maine Boat & Home Show Names New Manager for 2025

Kate Holden to lead the 2025 event

The Daily 5

Pollen, peonies, island camping
A wide array of launchings, boating safety class, antifouling technology
Chatto: A treasured Maine island
Flight on bright and hopeful wings
The niece of famed American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an early if not the first female artist to paint this island…