Read about Maine in Yankee Magazine’s Annual Travel Guide

  Please pick up the May/June issue of Yankee Magazine's Annual Guide to read my article sharing the joys of Quisisana, a music-themed family resort edging...
Waldo Emerson Inn, kennebunk maine

Maine summer 2023: new or changed

Wondering what's new or changed for Maine summer 2023. I can help with that. One thing that's constant is change. Properties change hands, restaurants...
Make plans to indulge in everything maple on Maine Maple Sunday. courtesy photo

Maine Maple Sunday: the sweetest day of the year

Maine Maple Sunday, when Maine's maple syrup producers strut their sap, is the sweetest day of the year. On the fourth Sunday of March, Maine's...
View from a car approaching to board The Cat ferryvideo

Traveling between Maine & Nova Scotia aboard The Cat ferry

The Cat Ferry is back. This 3.5-hour cruise aboard a high-speed catamaran makes traveling easy between Bar Harbor, Maine, and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. And...
a plate of oysters

Maine Oyster Festival debuts in Freeport

Love oysters? Thirty coastal Maine oyster farms will be shucking and serving at the Maine Oyster Festival, which debuts in Freeport June 24-26, 2022....
Watch lobster boats unload their catches from The inn at the Wharf, in Lubec, Maine. Hilary Nangle photo.

Maine waterfront hotels on working wharves

At these three Maine waterfront hotels, you can fall asleep listening to the waves lap and awaken to lobster boats chugging out to sea....
one Sixty Five exterior facing Park Row and the town green

Checking In: One Sixty Five shines in downtown Brunswick

One Sixty Five, a boutique inn on Park Row in downtown Brunswick, Maine, rose from the ashes of the former Brunswick Inn. Of course,...
Surfside

Maine’s Vinalhaven Island: day trip or overnight

Vinalhaven island makes a wonderful day trip. It's also great way to escape a heat wave. Not only is the ferry ride a nice...

Top 10: Best of Rockland, Maine

  Wondering where to start when it comes to the finding the best of Rockland? Right here. Rockland rocks. Named a Distinctive Destination by the National...
This year's Boothbay Harbor Windjammer Festival celebrates working women on the waterfront.

Windjammer Days 2022 honors 16 Maine women on the waterfront

Boothbay Harbor — The 2022 Windjammer Days festival celebrates working women on the waterfront. Sixty years ago, Captain Marion Dash, the first female boat...