Our Stories

Pasta Fantastica

September 2017
Freshly made pasta in traditional strands and shapes? Served with enchanting, authentic sauces? In wonderfully intimate trattorias? Portland’s the place.

September 2017 | view this story as a .pdf By Michael Kimball The town of York, Maine, claims two notorious characters from its past: Patience Boston and Reverend Joseph Moody. In 1735, Patience Boston was a 23-year-old Native American servant sentenced to hang for...

Art Agitators

September 2017
Stir it up: Social activism thrives in Maine’s fine art world.

Gentleman’s Agreement

“Klan Wins Victory At Portland Polls,” trumpeted on September 11, 1923. “Vote Breaks All Records, Disorder Marks Election.”

Bow Spirits

There was a time when no good ship sailed from Casco Bay without a figurehead beneath her bow. The finest came from Portland’s Nahum Littlefield, a master of this lost American art.

The Sound of Summer

July/August 2017 | view story as a pdf Live music on the oceanfront is what summer memories are made of. Let’s hear it, Old Crow Medicine Show. By Sarah Moore If Portland understands one thing, it’s the power of live music on...

Surf Lung One

July/August 2017 | view this story as a .pdf By Frederick Sargent Growing up, I always wondered what it would be like to have “cool parents.” I knew with a certainty that my own parents were not cool. For one thing, they were maybe 15 years older than my friends’...