PortlandMagazine archives
Cassie, the Casco Bay sea serpent, swimming through the waves past rowing boats in Portland Harbor
Cassie, Casco Bay’s sea serpent

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

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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.