Life on Matinicus Island
Life on Matinicus Island: "Matinicus lies 23 miles out to sea, the most remote inhabited island on the Atlantic seaboard... one of a vast necklace of islands, more than 3,000 in all, spread out along...
View ArticleOh Brad, take me against the wall of our four-season lakeside cabin!
Snapshots of life with your new boyfriends, the men of LL Bean.
View ArticleBean-hole beans!
Bean-hole beans!Robert Campbell of Glenburn, Maine, has been baking beans in a bean hole for nearly forty years. "Even when I don't need the beans," he says, "When Friday night comes it's just an urge...
View ArticleI Need A Beat
LL Cool J , live at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, 1985 (SLYT via Ego Trip).
View ArticleWho Needs Society? (Except to Steal From)
A Maine hermit went into the woods at age 20, survived for 27 years by pulling off 1,000+ robberies, then finally was caught last week by game wardens using hidden cameras.
View ArticleFrom stump to ship: A 1930s logging film
“For more than 150 years, logging techniques remained the same. Men cut trees by hand and loaded them on horse-drawn sleds to be hauled over snow to the river. Skilled river drivers maneuvered the logs...
View ArticleBoiled Alive
'There's more lobster out there right now than anyone knows what to do with, but Americans are still paying for it as if it were a rare delicacy.' Also, from 2004: David Foster Wallace goes to the...
View ArticleWhat's He Building In There?
San Francisco's Bay Barge Mystery"Something big and mysterious is rising from a floating barge at the end of Treasure Island, a former Navy base in the middle of San Francisco Bay." And now one has...
View ArticleNative Intelligence
On March 22, 1621, a Native American delegation walked through what is now southern New England to meet with a group of foreigners who had taken over a recently deserted Indian settlement. At the head...
View Article"You're a mean little girl!"
"First time I ever got beat up by a baby moose." -- Maine moose trapper/tagger Wes Livingston gets mauled by an ungrateful juvenile moose on video. [via 9MSN; TW: animal mauling; Livingston is ok]...
View ArticleThe Lion of the Union is No More
One hundred years ago today, General Joshua L. Chamberlain - the "lion of the union" - linguist, professor, mason, soldier, Medal of Honor winner, public servant, and author -- died at the age of 85,...
View ArticleWhen he heard the song of the chickadees, he could finally relax
GQ: The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit. "For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the...
View ArticleSea 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.
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