The Women of Maine
Good Eye

Good Eye

Joan Whitney Payson’s talent was unearthing masterworks by Picasso, Monet, & Cézanne.

Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve

The novelist speaks about body surfing in Biddeford Pool and the myth of the classic Mainer.

[Maine] itself is a Binge!

September 2009   Before we had Martha at Skylands, we had Julia at Blue Hill Bay. "Julia Child’s Maine" By Judith Gaines She stayed in Maine periodically for more than 50 years, savoring our seafood, sampling our restaurants, and summering in her beloved family...

A Woman in Full

2009 Josephine Peary was hardly amused when her husband, polar explorer Robert Peary, confessed he’d fallen in with an Inuit woman at the dome of the world. Undaunted, she courageously kept her marriage together and became a best-selling author, retiring to 290 Baxter...

No Place Like Home

July/August 2004 The Wicked Witch of the West found comfort downeast. By Ian Crouch and Amy Louise Barnett   Start at Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick. Continue north on Route 1 to Edgecomb and head south on Route 27 past Boothbay on your way to Southport...