Ryan Brod became a Maine Guide in his early 20s, after spending his childhood hunting and fishing in the Belgrade Lakes region. From...

In most of the country, about Thanksgiving Day, the first vagrant airs of approaching Christmas ..

by John N. Cole (1980) Three hundred and seventy-three Decembers have been swallowed by time since the first English Christmas in Maine....

The following story is featured in All Is Calm: A Maine Christmas Reader. All Is Calm, edited by Islandport's own Shannon Butler, is an...

By Dean L. Lunt In the 1970s, Frenchboro remained a relatively poor island fishing village eight miles at sea that, given the era's...

by Shannon Butler This essay by Shannon Butler serves as the introduction to her book, All Is Calm, a look at the lives of Mainers during...