The real Maine
is famous for its people.
Discover the people, places, and stories behind this state we love.
Behind every great Maine business
is a person with a story worth telling.
Maine Famous is an independent media company documenting the people, businesses, and traditions that shape communities across the state through photography, interviews, podcasts, books, and film.
From working waterfronts and family farms to restaurants, shops, inns, and festivals, each feature captures the people whose work helps define Maine.
Meet the Mainers behind the Midcoast and Downeast regions you love.
Audio / Video
Podcasts
The Maine Famous Podcast features conversations with the people behind Maine's restaurants, shops, farms, inns, festivals, and creative businesses.
Across five seasons, guests have shared the stories behind the work they do and the communities they help shape.
Listen to the voices behind Maine.
Recently Featured
Fish Haus | Kennebunk
Gabrielle Stratmann is 26 years old, but she has already competed in Irish dance at the world championship level, moved to England to dance and design embroidered dresses, built a ceramics business through dozens of New England art markets, and now opened one of Kennebunk’s most distinctive new shops.
OystHers Raw Bar | Bath
Sisters Lauren and Sadia Crosby grew up in Georgetown, Maine, daughters of a commercial lobsterman who left for work before sunrise and came home steaming up the river at the end of the day. They spent their childhood around bait bags, skiffs, clamming, and the realities of working on the Maine coast.
Minka Home Furnishings | KPT
Over nearly two decades, co-owner Christopher Larochelle has developed an instinct for what draws someone across a room: a stack of linen scarves in muted earth tones, a mushroom carving tucked beside a ceramic vase, a shelf of dark-colored books and candles, the soft texture of a cotton blanket someone suddenly needs to touch before they leave.
The Insider’s Guide
to Downeast Maine
Over 3,000 books sold across three volumes.
While online copies are sold out, you'll still find books at select shops and inns across Downeast Maine.
The Insider’s Guide
to Midcoast Maine
The Insider’s Guide to Midcoast Maine features nearly one hundred places to eat, shop, stay, and explore between Damariscotta and Belfast. It is a book to savor, gift, display, and return to often.
Meet the Maine Famous founders:
April & Buck
Maine Famous was founded by Buck and April Beaudoin, a husband-and-wife team based in Camden.
Since 2023, they have traveled across the state documenting the people and communities that make Maine distinctive through photography, podcasts, books, and long-form features.
Learn more about Buck and April and how Maine Famous began.
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Independent Maine media since 2023.