From the Editor “C’est si bon” By Colin W. Sargent
Letters

 

MAINE LIFE

Chowder  A tasty blend of the Fabulous, the Eyebrow-Raising, and the Just Plain Wrong.

What’s Playing
December Events Listings.
Degrees of separation: distancing as an art form. Experience culture presented in novel ways.

Near & Dear
Rediscovering the Joy
of the Bubble.
From Staff & Wire Reports

Maine Gift Guide
Where the Ghost of Christmas Future shops.

PERSPECTIVES

From the Editor  “Strange Days, Indeed” Kennebunk’s little-known connection to conspirators Leoplod and Loeb. By Colin W. Sargent

Letters

Breaking the Ice   The ship Polarstern returns from the Arctic with dire warnings about Global Warming. In 1923, Donald MacMillan was sent to the Arctic aboard the Schooner Bowdoin to measure growing glaciers that gave rise to fears of a New Ice Age and Global Cooling. Wait, what? By Colin W. Sargent

HOMES & DESIGN

Log Cabin Fever
A new shelter trend is the return of off-the-grid. Think log cabins with solar panels. Own them, rent them, build them, or just lust after these dreamy dwellings.
By Jesse Stenbak

Merry Mortgages
Everybody wants to quarantine
in Maine right now!
By Sofia Voltin

Talking Walls
“Symphony for Ocean & Marsh”
Get swept up in the views when you step into this site-specific lodge at Goose Rocks Beach.
By Colin W. Sargent

66 Maine Real Estate
Homes for sale, design and
architecture firms, home services. Exciting properties to make
your fantasy of a home in Maine come true.

FOOD & DRINK

Feast of Love
A tragic holiday menu surfaces from a sunken Liberty ship.
By Colin W. Sargent

Dining Guide
Select area restaurants are
calling to you.

Restaurant Review
“Northern Comfort”
Holiday cheer at Maine Diner.
By Colin W. Sargent

LAST WORDS

The Hearth We Hold
New fiction by Ben Emery