Classic Maine Stories Archive
The 10 Most Intriguing People in Maine – Liv Tyler
November 1996 Imagine growing up in Portland, Maine. It’s pretty easy for a lot of us. But then imagine walking down Exchange Street in the Old Port for some shopping…
The Cost of Freedom
A C_54A transport departs Newfoundland on the last leg of a mail flight from England to Washington, D.C. Around midnight, over New Brunswick, they transmit a signal to Washington, giving…
Guns & Lobsters
One of every 100 people you pass by on the streets of Portland may be concealing a hand gun. Unless, of course, he isn’t concealing it. by Colin S. Sargent…
Across the Street from Cheverus… Portland’s Ante-Bellum Brady Bunch
The cozy double front parlors complete with working fireplaces, hardwood floors, six- over-six windows, Federal woodwork, and Greek Revival moldings on the first floor of the two story white clapboard…
Dave Brubeck & the First Annual Maine Jazz Festival
From the 2000 Summerguide Dave Brubeck & the First Annual Maine Jazz Festival Story By Farrah T. Giroux, Interview by Colin Sargent view this story as a .pdf Jazz great…
Island in the (Maine) Stream
Summerguide 2008 If you live in Vacationland, where do you go to vacation? One wonders: With 3,478 miles of coastline and several thousand islands in their home state, do Mainers…
The Maine Summer of Eugene O’Neill
May 2003 Because the playwright Eugene 0 ‘ Neill, hailed by many as the best American dramatist of the 20th century, spent the summer of 1926 at Belgrade Lake, his life,…
Night of the Shooting Stars
December 2007 download this story as a .pdf When two worlds collide after twilight on a hot summer night, the terrible result is blood in the water and a rift…
One Family’s Autumn
Winterguide 1992 download this story as a .pdf Autum Aquino, 6, and her family face AIDS.
Maine’s Misfits
Winterguide 2005 download this story as a .pdf by Stacey Chase “The Horsey Set” takes on a whole new meaning at this farm in Biddeford All the pretty horses that dot the…
The W.E.B. DuBois Files
Summerguide 2001 By Leigh Donaldson For decades, the FBI tailed him. But every summer for two weeks in July the African-American intellectual leader disappeared…to a lake in Maine. When the…
Shudder Island
October 2004 download this story as a .pdf By Jan Grieco Just offshore from where posh Sebasco Estates in Phippsburg sits today, 41-acre Malanga Island was home to a black…
Pizza Diplomacy, Life on a Soviet Freighter
November 1990 download this story as a .pdf by Kevin LeDuc SHALKAV, a 31-year-old sailor, tells me, “My son is 4, my daughter is 8,” indicating with gestures his son’s…
Whatever Happened To Barbara DiNinno
July 1986 download this story as a .pdf By Collin Sargent Whatever happened to that woman who got kicked out of Maine Maritime Academy for not wearing her uniform? Carelessly…
Watcher in the Clouds
February/March 2011
LightHawk aviation, a Maine-based consortium of ‘knights of the sky,’ is thinking and acting globally as they commit startling, environmentally good deeds.
Meet the Other Pearys
Winterguide 2011
The two family legacies of polar explorer Robert E. Peary reunite.
When Your Name Is Mailer, You Cannot Phone It In
December 2010
With a sheaf of summers in Bar Harbor as his inspiration, Wall Street 2 heartthrob John Buffalo Mailer, 32, is daring to live on the knife’s edge, taking on the world as actor, playwright, screenwriter, editor, blogger, and scene-stealer.
Kenocaching
October 2010
All of Maine’s a treasure hunt! And Leigh Keno is the ultimate guide
to help you score pieces with personality and a past.
Kenneth Roberts & His Beloved Money Pit
October 2010
Off sea-swept Kennebunk Beach, a marvel of architectural salvage…
Chasing Molly
Summerguide 2010
The actress who voiced Pocahontas is out to rescue Native Americana from Hollywood’s cliches by putting the story of Maine’s silent-film star–who danced for royalty and took Paris by fire–up on the silver screen.
Finding Fortune
Summerguide 2010
Painter Clara Fargo Thomas created canvases to get lost in. Architect George Howe set out to build her a masterpiece to live in. The result was Fortune Rock.
Acadia’s Cajuns
Summerguide 2010
Emeril Lagasse–one of us? Ayuh, it’s true–and he’s not alone. Louisiana’s best Cajun chefs have Acadia in their roots–and on
their plates.
The Beautiful & Tanned
May 2010
The audience is sure to go wild when Carson Kressley takes Ogunquit Playhouse by storm June 9-26 to kick off a fantastic summer theater season across the state.
Good Eye
May 2010
She had incredible
resources and graceful race horses. But young Joan Whitney Payson’s true talent was unearthing overlooked masterworks by the likes of Picasso, Monet, and Cézanne.
Wild Child
April 2010
Like many of us, Dan Fogelberg came up here to look for something. His wife, Jean Fogelberg, shares what he found…
Page Surfer
February/March 2010 On the eve of Anita Shreve’s April 9 opening-night stop in Portland to kick off the Maine Festival of the Book, the Oprah Book Club novelist speaks candidly…
The (Not So) Quiet American
December 2009 New York Times reporter David Rohde reveals his feelings about captivity in Afghanistan and inspiration from his Maine roots. By Donna Stuart On June 19, 2009, New York…