In a largely rural state, without many big-ticket museums or collecting institutions, the work of safeguarding Maine history falls largely to a host of small historical societies, libraries, and other ...

In the span of a few months, a series of fierce storms reshaped the Maine landscape, battered beloved landmarks, and called waterfront communities’ futures into question in frightening fashion. While ...

Among the gaggles of Gilded Age robber barons who preferred their pleasure domes with a view of Maine’s Frenchman Bay, John Godfrey Moore was the rarest sort — a genuine local boy. Born in Steuben in ...

My introduction to Bucky Fuller (R. Buckminster Fuller, the architect-philosopher, that is) was purest slapstick with the zany touch of an old Laurel and Hardy movie. Time: a winter’s evening in 1916.

It all started, Usha Beaudoin says, with a pretzel. In the summer of 2020, the early months of the pandemic, she was on Matinicus Island, where her mother’s family goes back nine generations, with her ...

The trick to growing ginger in Maine, Dave Allen says, is to convince the ginger that it’s not in Maine at all. He and his partner, Erica Emery, own Rustic Roots Farm, in Farmington, and for the past ...

With no backcountry to speak of, Acadia is one of the country’s few dog-friendly national parks: all the carriage roads, most trails, and all the campgrounds (except on Isle au Haut) welcome leashed ...

The trail that most starkly illustrates Cadillac’s capacity for quietude is the Gorge Path, as its route more or less parallels the uber-popular North Ridge Trail. Unlike the high and dry North Ridge, ...

And bring joy to owner Betsy Atkins, who says walking her property each morning is "the happiest part of my day." Scores of Colorful Glass Orbs Lend Continuity to This Harpswell Garden For 82 years, ...

One of the strangest parts about being famous in the particular way that Nirav Shah is famous is that strangers often approach him and burst into tears. That and the Diet Cokes, cans of which get tied ...

Monday, July 27, 2020, dawned sultry and bright on Bailey Island, a village of about 400 full-time residents in the midcoast town of Harpswell. Early that morning, lobsterboats sputtered out of ...