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Each spring, Traveler Editor at Large Costas Chris tucks his passport away and turns into a blueberry farmer, tending the crop on a 40-acre organic farm in Maine. Call it his double life.
Costas Christ brings us five Friday-to-Monday getaways from Maine to Manhattan that deliver friendly service and great food along with a palpable commitment to caring for the environment.
Maineland Bound
Posted by Intelligent Travel on March 12, 2012 
By Amber Parcher A February trip to a coastal town in Maine sounds less like a vacation and more like a stunt of bravery. But this year’s warm New England winter opened up the doors for a weekend trip to one of the Pine Tree State’s most famous finger peninsulas and the 250-year-old bed and…
#FriFotos: Home Grown
Posted by Intelligent Travel on February 24, 2012 
For this week’s #FriFotos* theme, LOCAL, we chose this photo of a Maine farmer who leaves his produce out on his flatbed truck, relying upon the honor system for payment. What’s more local than trusting your neighbors? What’s your definition of local? Share your thoughts on this elusive yet vital concept in the comments section…
Strange Planet: Have Fishing Shack, Will Travel
Posted by Marilyn Terrell on March 8, 2011 What do you get when you cross an ice-fishing shack with a snowmobile trailer and a 1996 Chevy Cavalier? The winner of the Bangor Daily News‘ Original Ice Shack Contest, fully driveable and fishable. From Jalopnik via Neatorama
Eating Well in Portland, Maine
Posted by Intelligent Travel on November 18, 2010 Contributing editor Margaret Loftus takes us on a culinary tour of Portland, Maine. I’ve been known to plan my day around where I might eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner when visiting the venerable food capitals of New York and Paris, but Portland, Maine? You bet. The city’s rise to culinary stardom has been chronicled in…
Dead Poets Remembrance Day
Posted by Caitlin Etherton on October 5, 2010 This Thursday, October 7th, poetry-lovers across the country will gather for the first annual Dead Poets Remembrance Day, a unique opportunity to meet at the graves of American poets and read their verse aloud. Walter Skold, founder of the Dead Poets Society of America, developed the idea for the holiday after taking a 15,000 mile…
Lobsters on a Plane
Posted by Intelligent Travel on October 27, 2009 Andrew Evans discovers how to bring home the ultimate souvenir from Maine. It felt like a trick question on the SAT: You’re visiting the coast of Maine and loving all the delicious fresh lobster. You decide that you want to bring some home to share with your family. Lobsters must be alive in order to…
The Best Breakfast in Maine
Posted by Jeannette Kimmel on September 11, 2009 This summer I spent a long weekend with friends in Middle-of-Nowhere Maine, somewhere north of the Where-the-Heck-R-We Campground. (OK, so the town we stayed in wasn’t called “Middle-of-Nowhere,” but the campground does exist.) We had planned on eating at different places to try out the regional cuisine, and whenever we asked anyone for a good…
Honeybees, Please!
Posted by Jeannette Kimmel on May 26, 2009 The decline of honeybees–which are not native to the United States–has been a hot topic of research for some time. The bees are dying from colony collapse disorder, a condition in which worker bees suddenly disappear, and that has killed an estimated one in three colonies a year since 2006. Fortunately, many companies, from farmers…
Mmmm… Pie….
Posted by Jeannette Kimmel on January 22, 2009 For the epicurious (and the hungry), this Friday is National Pie Day. To celebrate, four inns that make up the Historic Inns of Rockford, Maine, are hosting “Pies on Parade” this Sunday, and our friends at This Just In have the details: Each inn will be receiving ticketed guests between 1 and 4 p.m., with…
Jenss Family Travels: Maine-Stays
Posted by Rainer Jenss on July 21, 2008 The words I dreaded hearing came less than one week into our yearlong journey. “I don’t want to go around the world,” Stefan proclaimed, just hours after arriving on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, aka Acadia National Park. Then, just in time to catch my heart before it splattered to the ground, came “I want to…
Seeing the Maine Attraction
Posted by kristen gunderson on June 23, 2008 When I think of Maine, I first think of lobster. And cold. So when a ticket to Maine appeared in my inbox, courtesy of my mother, I wondered what could possibly be behind it. Turns out, Maine has a lot more to offer during the warmer months (particularly in the realm of lobster). Over the…
The Maine Attraction
Posted by it on December 12, 2006 Feel like winter just crept up on you? Not quite ready for the holidays? Herewith, IT provides the ultimate antidote to light-festival-and-Christmas-market overload, a description of photo editor Linda Meyerriecks’s summer vacation in Maine: We rented a house on Rackliff Island not far from Rockland, in the middle of Wyeth country. One of our favorite…
