Every issue since April 1986
Forty years of Portland, in one place.
The people, places and stories of Portland and the Maine coast, from every issue of Portland Magazine, searchable and ready to read again.
What’s in the archive
Four decades of a city and its coast, told by the people who lived them.
People
Profiles and interviews with the artists, chefs, builders, sailors and neighbors who shaped Portland.
Places
Neighborhoods, islands, harbors, houses and restaurants, from the Old Port to the far ends of the coast.
Stories
Features, fiction, history and the columns you remember, from the first issue in April 1986 to the latest.
*The nickname “Cassie” for Portland’s legendary sea serpent was coined by Portland Monthly art director Nancy D. Sargent while laying out a story by cryptozoologist Loren Coleman in our May 1986 issue.