Our Stories

The Maine Summer of Eugene O’Neill

Eugene O’ Neill spent a summer at Belgrade Lake. His life was changed forever.

Summerguide 2011 I’m driving behind a New Mexico license plate–yellow with red letters in celebration of how much sunshine they enjoy in the great American Southwest. “If you love your ‘Land of Enchantment’ so much,” I laugh, “what brings you to Vacationland?” Because...

Arrows Restaurant

Summerguide 2011 By Diane Hudson Postcards From Bologna Theme dinners at Arrows let you travel the world and return to Ogunquit in time to catch a show. Arrows is going places. Tonight it’s Bologna. And we gorge ourselves from the get-go with sumptuous gnocchi,...

Live in Hollywood, Thrive in Maine

Summerguide 2011
Who knew Kirsten Dunst’s health guru is a mysterious Mainer named Daniel Vitalis?

Dream Islands

Summerguide 2011
On these personal paradises, the breezes, waves, stars, and land are all yours.

Notorious in Cape Elizabeth

Summerguide 2011
It’s not just an urban legend. Ingrid Bergman lived here among us in the icy summer of 1946, at 9 Ironclad Road.

Maine Fra Diavolo

Summerguide 2011
Todd English’s secret ingredient is our salt air.

May 2011

Lamoine

Fiction by Rick Moody, author of Garden State and The Ice Storm.

Petite Jacqueline

May 2011 Portland’s new bistro in Longfellow Square “has the peach” and is at the top of its game. By Diane Hudson Welcome Petite Jacqueline! The impressive French bistro is the brainchild of the folks who gave us five fifty-five on Congress Street: chef/owner Steve...

Live! From Harpswell …The Barrymores of Comedy

May 2011
Comedy clan Bob, Abby, and Chris Elliott navigate their careers from here.