A Field Guide to Magic Mushrooms in Maine

A Field Guide to Magic Mushrooms in Maine

illustration/Nathan Galvez One hundred and eleven summers ago, a man foraging for food in Oxford County had an extremely curious experience after he and his niece ate about a pound of mushrooms — wild fungi he’d identified as belonging to the genus Panaeolus — for noontime dinner, fried in butter. His account, dictated to A.E. Verrill of Yale University about a week after the event (anonymously, at the forager’s request), was published in the Di…