Tess Davis

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This house “started out as a big tent platform. We just wanted to get away for the weekend, and then we thought, why don’t we put something on it?” says owner Carrie Burnsteel about her Quonset hut. “It took us three weekends to build it. The first arch was 40 feet and 240 pounds. My husband, teenage son, his friend, and I put it up together.” Presto! A Birch Island sanctuary. “Getting away from it all while still being so close to Portland is amazing.”
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Interview by Tess Davis
After spending years in Montana and Louisiana, Pulitzer prizewinner Richard Ford and his wife Kristina sold their saltwater home on Linekin Bay in Boothbay. In 2023 his latest novel, Be Mine, sent him “chasing the book around the world.” So why are they house-hunting back in Maine again? Here are some of his thoughts.
I hear that you are house-hunting, moving back to Maine.
We are because I like it, and so does my wife. She’ll outlive me, so she should be in a place she l...

Story by Tess Davis
Since before the Civil War, the humble spud held fast as Maine’s top cash crop. However, a shift occurred in 2020 when medical cannabis usurped that high position over potatoes and blueberries. While Maine’s Potato industry revenue brought in around $238M in 2023, medical cannabis brought in a whopping $280M.
Medical cannabis farmers like Brady Palmer are embracing healthier farming techniques. Palmer, who opened his farm in 2014, always loved gardening, but he made his livin...

By Tess Davis
Who doesn’t love this celebrity stone on Gooch’s Beach in Kennebunk? The white stripe makes it a “wishing stone.”
But how did it get here? We asked Dr. Beverly J. Johnson of Bates College to take us closer.
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By Tess Davis

Who doesn’t love this celebrity stone on Gooch’s Beach in Kennebunk? The white stripe makes it a “wishing stone.”

But how did it get here? We asked Dr. Beverly J. Johnson of Bates College to take us closer.

Rea...