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A Month of Fun: Thursday, July 31

Play golf on an island in Casco Bay. Read more »
A Month of Fun: Tuesday, July 29

Go on a whale watch in Bar Harbor. Read more »
A Month of Fun: Monday, July 28

Paddle the many coves of Little Sebago. Read more »
A Month of Fun: Friday, July 25

Go out on the town for free at the Portland Museum of Art. Read more »
A Month of Fun: Sunday, July 27

Tap your toes in Fort Fairfield. Read more »
A Month of Fun: Saturday, July 26

Attend the sixth annual Festival of Nations in Portland. Read more »
West Quoddy Head Light

Travel to the easternmost point of the United States. Read more »
A Month of Fun: Wednesday, July 23

Listen to a string orchestra in Acadia National Park. Read more »
A Month of Fun: Tuesday, July 22

Shoot sporting Clays with L.L.Bean. Read more »
A Month of Fun: Monday, July 21

See David Ortiz at Hadlock Field. Read more »
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Berth of Cool
Sailing in Penobscot Bay on the Fourth of July

No fireworks but sunset sights to spare from Mackerel Cove to Gilkey Harbor, Islesboro. (Enjoy the video of the sunset,too.) Read more »
The Business of Raising Sails on a Maine Windjammer

On the trip from Allen Cove to Mackerel Cove, Swans Island, McCanna learns the business of sailing a boat, a livelihood and a business in one. Read more »
The Windjammer Cruise and the Lobster Bake

Each are made memorable by Moxie and Red Hots on Day 3 of my Lewis R. French sail from Brooklin to Allen Cove, North Brooklin. Read more »
The Great Schooner Race, 2008

Sometimes nice guys finish second. Read more »
Lewis R. French Day 1: Camden to Holbrook Island Harbor, Castine

Captain Garth Wells’s passengers are exceedingly outgoing, nice, and polite. His schooner, the Lewis R. French is the oldest windjammer in the United States and was built in Christmas Cove, Maine, in 1871 to carry coal, bricks, and fish. Read more »
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Lodging
Finding the 'Wow' House

A couple with a bit of an aversion to B&Bs has turned a midcoast manse into an intimate, but not overbearing, hideaway for people just like themselves. Read more »
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Rest and Recreation
Maine for the New Yorker

A Guide for Urbanites on Vacation Down East Read more »
Follow the Roosevelt Trail

Many of the Maine sites important to Roosevelt are open to visitors today. Read more »
The Birth of Sugarloaf

An excerpt from the new book The Story of Sugarloaf tells the story of Sugarloaf/USA's first gondola, as important an event in the history of the Mountain as cutting the first trail in 1950 Read more »
You Alone in the Maine Woods

This trusty orange book may be as vital to your surviving in the woods as a Swiss Army knife. Read more »
Messing About in Boats

Camden was home to a one-night wooden boat festival of sorts on Thursday, as classic sailing yachts stopped by on their way to the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta in Brooklin. Read more »
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Catch a Piece of Maine

Hauling a Trap for Down East

Captain John Ready shows the risks and rewards of lobstering close to the rocky shore.

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Hauling a Trap for Down East

Hauling a Trap for Down East

Captain John Ready shows the risks and rewards of lobstering close to the rocky shore.
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Added: 2008-07-02
Setting the Trap: The Most Scenic Catch

Setting the Trap: The Most Scenic Catch

See why placing lobster traps near Portland Head Light is not the stuff for novice lobstermen. If you've seen Deadliest Catch or Dirty Jobs it's easy to appreciate this is the Most Scenic Catch...
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Inside a Lobster Trap

Inside a Lobster Trap

John Ready of Catch a Piece of Maine explains how a lobster trap captures — and can release — lobsters.
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Upcoming Events

A Nice Family Gathering

08.28.2008 to 09.06.2008

Lundeen loved his wife of forty-one years so much, but he never told her. Now he’s come back as a ghost to do so, except she can’t see him or...

Cabinet of Curiosities: The Museum, Science Collections, and You

08.28.2008 to 08.28.2008

This exhibit, curated by the museum’s co-chief scientists, Paula Work and David Work, shows the many facets of the museum’s science...

Five Course Love

08.28.2008 to 08.28.2008

Five Course Love Book, Music and Lyrics by Gregg Coffin In Five Course Love, Greg Coffin’s light and campy musical comedy, we get an evening...

Frost Farm Gallery art exhibition

08.28.2008 to 08.28.2008

August 1 - August 30. Local landscapes in oil, watercolor and pencil by Noel Watson. Opening reception from 5-8 pm on Friday, August 1 at Frost...

I Ought to be in Pictures

08.28.2008 to 08.30.2008

Neil Simon’s take on love, insecurity, passion, and prejudice with plenty of his patented laughs, of course

Louise Nevelson

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A collection spanning forty years of the Rockland artist and famed American sculptor. The collection shows the artist’s career in sculpture,...

Maine Wildlife Park

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Guaranteed to see a Moose at Maine Wildlife Park in GrayAre you looking for Maine wildlife? The Maine Wildlife Park in Gray, owned and operated by...

Subtraction of the Distraction: Abstract Works on Paper. Also showing, Landlocked: The Contemporary Landscape

08.28.2008 to 08.28.2008

Susan Maasch Fine Art is excited to present two new shows for the summer season: Subtraction of the Distraction: Abstract Works on Paper...

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