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There are several good reasons why savvy gardeners cherish native plants in their landscapes. In this book, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens executive director Maureen Heffernan provides information and inspiration for gardeners about how to choose the best plants for a variety of locations and provides tips on how to cope with challenging conditions. Heffernan discusses flowering perennials, foliage plants, grasses, ground covers, shrubs, and trees,...
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Here is a revised, second edition of Marilyn Dwelley's indispensable guide to summer and fall wildflowers in New England. Each listing includes a thorough text description, as well as details about range, growth habits, and habitat. Includes Latin names and families, in addition to common names, and more than 700 color illustrations.
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If you're intrigued by the idea of the garden as a stage-where the drama of germination, growth, planned designs, and plenty of surprises occur-then this book is for you. Writer Rebecca Sawyer-Fay and photographer Lynn Karlin deliver another informative, practical, and simply beautiful gardening book.
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Since it's grand opening in June 2007, the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay has become one of Maine's most popular attractions and one the most distinguished botanical destinations in the country. "Wow!" is the word most often heard from visitors who explore the exquisite gardens, stunning stonework, exceptional natural landscapes, waterfalls, and sculptures.
The goal of the Gardens is to preserve the botanical heritage and natural landscapes...
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Maine Acadia National Park is one of the most visited national parks in the United States. It is an adventure seeker's paradise. Hiking, climbing, snowshoeing, back-country skiing, and ice-climbing are among the activities pursued there; as well as the less extreme sightseeing along the Park Road and Atlantic coast. “Death in Acadia” gathers the stories of fatalities that have occurred in the park, from falls to exposure to cardiac arrest-even...
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In 1831 a new entity appeared on the American landscape: the garden cemetery. Meant to be places where the living could enjoy peace, tranquility and beauty, as well as to provide a final resting place for the dead, the garden cemeteries would forever change the culture of death and burial in the United States. The ideal cemetery would become one in which ornamental trees, bushes, flowers, and waterways graced the ever more artistic (for those who...
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Travel just a few miles beyond Acadia National Park and you will find a little known and seldom visited patchwork of quaint fishing villages, rocky coastlines, wild blueberry fields, and vast stretches of forestland reaching all the way to the Canadian border, a hundred miles away. “Beyond Acadia: Exploring the Bold Coast of Down East Maine” is a travel guide that brings together, for the first time, the amazing opportunities to enjoy a day or...
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Maine's cultural and culinary heart, Portland is a buzzing and energetic food community. Widely considered to have one of the country's most vibrant food scenes, named "Restaurant City of the Year" by Bon Appetit, the city offers a diverse culinary landscape, from classic seafood to Oaxacan to Korean to Milanese, and its devotion to farm-to-table cuisine and locally sourced ingredients is undeniable given that the Portland Farmers' Market, the country's...
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What's for lunch when you're in Maine in the summer? What else but the ubiquitous lobster roll. Nearly every café, diner, dive, and gourmet restaurant offers their version of this sandwich (even McDonald's adds one to their menu every summer) and chefs delight in adding their own spin on this classic comfort food.
Down East magazine has scoured the state and come up with the 75 best lobster rolls to be had anywhere. Each is ranked and paired with...
11) Upcountry
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Kimber shares his adventures, misadventures, and reflections as a part-time farmer and fetcher of firewood, his struggles with recalcitrant sheep and aging tractors, the joys of roaming the hills with his dog, plunking for pickerel in the lily pads, savoring the echoes of silence in a sleeping Maine village. Like a good apple pie, these essays are a blend of the sweet and the tart, the aromatic and the astringent, seasoned with a dash of wit and self-irony,...
12) Saving Maine
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Is Maine's famed natural character vanishing? The answer is: no, not all of it, thanks to the hard work and generosity of people such as Percival Baxter and Peggy Rockefeller, and of dozens of concerned, ordinary citizens and groups such as the Maine Coast Heritage Trust and The Nature Conservancy, which have helped to establish preserves and parks that will maintain at least some of the natural beauty of Maine forever.
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The ultimate to-do list for Mainers and visitors alike.
What better way to celebrate 50 years of book publishing than to celebrate the greatest things Maine has to offer. Following the popular trend in "bucket list" books, this experiential guide will help visitors and residents alike discover everything there is to do here. Taken all together, these experiences are enough to fill a lifetime.
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From Grand Manan to Mount Desert to the Isles of Shoals on the New Hampshire border, sixty-eight lighthouses stand along the coast of Maine and her rivers. In his conversational way, Bill Caldwell leads his readers on a historical tour of nearly all the Maine lighthouses. In Caldwell's hands the legends, lore, and history of the impressive signals come to life. Maine's lighthouses are symbols of it's proud maritime heritage, and of a way of life that...
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A revision of what has become a well-known guide, Windjammer Watching on the Coast of Maine provides a systematic review of the windjammer fleet in midcoast Maine, as well as some from away that sail here. Virginia Thorndike tells us how to identify all the individual vessels and gives the histories and vital statistics for each. This is an essential guide for anyone interested in taking a windjammer cruise, for boaters cruising the coast of Maine...
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“The Official Maine Staycation Manual” is part fun-instigator, part planner, and part resource for anyone spending time in Maine. It's a combination inspiration and relaxation guide that will help you make the most of your staycation no matter where you are or how much time you have to spend.
Feel free to open “The Official Maine Staycation Manual” to any random page and try any idea you find there. Build a blanket fort! Make stove-top popcorn...
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Exploring the Spirit of Maine is a unique travel guide and reference book for those seeking either traditional or non-traditional options for spiritual and/or inner development. Author Karen Batignani reveals Maine's rich and varied religious history along with contemporary spiritual offerings: an ashram in Industry, a yoga retreat in Island Falls, Franciscan Friars in Kennebunk, two schools for shamanism and one that ordains high priestesses are...
18) Maine-ly Fun!
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Maine-ly Fun! is jam-packed with almost eight hundred activities to do and places to go with children in Maine-from the coast to the western mountains. This book will be a godsend not only to vacationers and travelers with children to Maine, but also to parents and other caregivers who live in Maine. Among the twenty-chapter headings are: The Arts, Boating, Great Ideas from Famous Maine Folks, Hiking, Islands, Books, Websites, and Crafts.
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This is the third in Earl Brechlin's series of small books featuring color reproductions of antique postcards. Captions opposite each historic card describe the images, most of which date from 1900 to 1930. The postcards document a variety of interesting locations, including Old Orchard Beach, Portland, Pemaquid, Wiscasset, and several lighthouses.
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Vermont is quintessential New England and a wonderful state to explore, offering grand vistas, lovely farms and villages, historic sites, and rolling mountains. In addition, you'll encounter minimal traffic, plenty of scenic turnoffs, and absolutely no billboards.
Here a native Vermonter guides us through the entire state, from windswept peaks to lush farmlands, from magnificent Lake Champlain to the Northeast Kingdom. Fascinating histories and anecdotes...
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