Situated on Monument Square, it might be fair to say that the Public Market House symbolizes the heart of the local foods movement in Portland. Opened in 2006, following the collapse of Betty Noyce’s visionary-but-doomed Public Market project, the current public market opened in a converted Army-Navy store as a partnership between four of the [...]
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First and foremost, credit to catchesthelight on flickr for the beautiful image of the Casco Bay bridge used in the header of this page. Please be sure to check out the rest of her photos on her Flickr feed. She also has a website: Catches-the-Light. Another long weekend is upon us. You remembered that this [...]
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There is a certain kind of bookstore that acts like a magical time machine when you walk through the door. Carlson Turner is that sort of magical shop. Step through the door and the hush and the smell of fine books washes over you. This is not the bookstore with an attached coffee shop or [...]
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Victoria Mansion is a movie star. Beautiful, spectacular, and one of a kind. But sitting right in the middle of Congress Street, anchoring the downtown, is another lovely lady – somewhat older, somewhat more conservative, but every bit as elegant and beautiful: the Wadsworth-Longfellow house and the Maine Historical Society. I’d wager that most people [...]
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