Explore literary locations throughout Maine, including landmarks, libraries, bookstores, and book settings.
The Blue Hill Fair
Are you a fan of the classic children’s novel Charlotte’s Web? If so, a trip to coastal Maine to check out the Blue Hill Fair might be in order.
Longfellow Monument
Oft-cited as the most popular poet of his time, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow may be often associated with Cambridge, Massachusetts but his birthplace and beloved childhood home was Portland, ME.
Edna St. Vincent Millay Plaque on Mt. Battie
All I could see from where I stood / Was three long mountains and a wood; / I turned and looked the other way, / And saw three islands in a bay.
So starts Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem Renascence, and so reads the plaque at the top of Mt. Battie in Camden.