THE DOWNEAST DILETTANTE

I am at last about to make the Big Announcement.  And after that I even have a few new posts---the sort that keep some of you coming back--...

A friend kindly took me on an architectural walk around Sorrento, a small summer colony developed in the late 19th century far up the Down ...

I had occasion to be on the College of the Atlantic campus in Bar Harbor yesterday, on a decidedly indirect route to an appointment in No...

Many newcomers  to Maine bring with them the tribal garb of their former lives.  One mud season later, things usually sort out, and Prada mo...

Last Monday was a beautiful day, unseasonably warm and springlike, and my father got in his pickup and drove himself over to the county s...

One rubs one's eyes in astonishment when one first sees it---a tiny settlement of even tinier Victorian cottages in the woods on a bluf...