Jesse Ellison

On a late-fall afternoon in the whitewashed photography studio behind her Belfast home, Lynn Karlin was up and down, making coffee and tea, offering crackers and cookies.

“I’ve never been on a team like this,” rower Leigh Dorsey says. “There was this net of trust that allowed us to pour everything we had into our oars, knowing that everyone else on the team was giving everything they had as well.” 

Photographers Dave Waddell and Tristan Spinski hit the road (and the water) to see what keeps these far-flung holdouts ticking.

After a mass shooting took the lives of 18 people last October, families, friends, and survivors were left to process their grief and trauma in myriad ways. For one couple, that meant endeavoring to reopen the bowling alley where the shooting began.

Elle Logan rowed in Beijing and London and won gold both times. This summer in Rio, she tries to make it three for three. So why haven’t you heard of Maine’s baddest Olympian?

Spending even a brief time with Amy Manning on her property in Nobleboro will produce the impression that she is lousy at sitting still.

Down East Magazine

They're of a piece with Maine's maritime setting, but require some ingenuity to turn into homes.

Down East Magazine

Long content to toil in obscurity from his quiet perch on Deer Isle, the master of photomontage drives fast, takes chances, and wonders whether he’s getting somewhere.