Sea smoke in Maine
Sea smoke or steam fog, fog caused by cold air flowing over a body of comparatively warm water, the vapor condensing in small convective columns near the water surface and giving the appearance of...
View ArticlePayday at the Mill
A tax incentive in Maine is being used to funnel money from tax dollars directly into corporate pockets. "At the end of the day, the paper machines changed hands on paper; the lenders that loaned the...
View ArticleSocial attraction
More than four decades ago, budding ornithologist Stephen Kress picked up an old field guide, and read that colonies of puffins had once nested on a tiny Maine island called Egg Rock, the last ones...
View ArticleNorth America: timelapse in 4K
An 8:44 long timelapse in 4K resolution on Vimeo and YouTube. Includes Yosemite, Yellowstone, Olympic, Banff, Kings Canyon, Sequoia, Acadia, Rocky Mountains, Mesa Verde, Arches, Mount Rainier, Mount...
View ArticleThe enigma behind America's freak, 20-year lobster boom
The Maine lobster haul has been growing and growing since the early 1990s, and no one is certain of why. Now there are fears of a pending bust, but without knowing the reason for the boom, no one can...
View ArticleThe Life & Times of Strider Wolf
The Life & Times of Strider Wolf Trigger warnings for Violence, Child Abuse.
View ArticleEssay contest for movie theater giveaway!
Write yourself a new life via essay contest in a movie theater giveaway Win a two-screen movie theater in Houlton, Maine (right on the cusp of an international border!) in an essay contest. The theater...
View ArticleBangor Maine Police Department Facebook Page
"Disorderly conduct is a mistress that tends to show up with her own six pack"
View ArticleDedicated to the appreciation of the mundane in everyday life
The Umbrella Cover Museum is about finding wonder and beauty in the simplest of things, and about knowing that there is always a story behind the cover. [via]
View ArticleDid you fill out the official fireball report?
The AMS has received 425 reports so far about a fireball event over Northeastern US on May 17th 2016 around 12:50am EDT (4:50 UT). The fireball was seen primarily from Maine but witnesses from...
View ArticleWhen you find my body, please call my husband George and my daughter...
On July 22, 2013, Geraldine Largay stepped into the Maine woods and disappeared without a trace. The 66-year-old had been hiking the Appalachian Trail alone, and failed to make a scheduled meet-up with...
View ArticleMurky origins. Feuding chefs. How the lobster roll went national.
The Definitive Oral History of the Lobster Roll
View ArticleWhat's that got to do with the price of paper in China?
Two years ago, the Atlantic's James Fallows visited the Easternmost City in the US to report on its attempts to keep its economy -- traditionally built around a sardine cannery that closed in the 80s...
View ArticleYup. They're going to put me in a bean can.
July 1939. The world teetered on the brink of war as Hitler menaced Poland. The 11 millionth visitor passed through the turnstiles of the New York World's Fair. Baseball fans still reeled after Lou...
View Article"You're not planning to go to the lighthouse, are you, Lily."
Lighthouses engulfed in ice
View ArticleLawmakers taped up signs declaring their offices a "Dental Free Zone"
Q: What group did one Maine legislator describe as having "power right up there with the NRA", saying they "do everything they can to protect their interests — and they have money"?A: Dentists. The...
View ArticleBirdhouse in Her Soul
Beautifully Designed Tiny Houses... For Birds. The houses all started a couple of years ago, when illustrator and wildlife artist Jada Fitch -- also an avid birder -- decided to make a new bird feeder...
View ArticleRegional reading: book picks for each U.S. state
This Map Shows The Most Famous Book Set In Every State (Business Insider; sorry-not sorry, Washington; previously) | The Literary United States: A Map of the Best Book for Every State (Brooklyn...
View ArticleMainly a weed, Mainely a fish?
A peculiar conflict in Maine over whether rockweed is more like a plant (and therefore belonging to those who own the foreshore) or more like a fish or oyster (and therefore harvestable as a common...
View ArticleWatching the World Cup in Tehran
We lefts the stadium with no loss, no victory, but plenty of indignation. Thousands of us walked out onto the street through a long dark tunnel, lost in the all-consuming blow of horns and chants of...
View Article"Don't push us out."
Maine Coast Fishermen's Association releases a video highlighting the importance of the deep water port to the fishing industry in Portland Maine and surrounding communities. "The working waterfront...
View ArticleOver here we call that a "Kaiju Pizza"
Westbrook, Maine is a small city (not town! They're very particular about that) in Southern Maine heretofore known primarily as the location of the SD Warren Paper Mill, formerly the world's largest....
View ArticleThe state of the roads, throughout the US and Canada
If you're traveling around the US and you'd like to know if there's construction, or a crash, congestion or bad weather, each state Department of Transportation (DOT) has the map for you! You can call...
View ArticleCitizen Cane
In 1909, the Boston Post newspaper commissioned 700 gold-headed ebony walking canes, and distributed one to the selectmen of every town in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, with...
View ArticleMaine voters reject hydropower transmission line
Maine voters reject transmission line: Bangor Daily News, CTV. Hydro Quebec has a deal to supply Massachusetts with hydropower, and the transmission line would run through Maine - but a combination of...
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