Between the thin, rocky soil that covers much of the state and a growing season that never feels quite long enough, gardening is ever a labor of love in Maine. Growing something as showy and brilliant ...

Greg Bates was thinking he should catch up on some Oscar-nominated movies from earlier this year. He did not, however, reach for the TV remote and scroll for Netflix or Prime Video. Instead, he hopped ...

Major landmarks on outer Congress Street, across I-295 from downtown Portland, include a Dunkin’, a couple of gas stations, and a shopping plaza with a CVS and a Shaw’s. Next door to Eddie’s Nails, ...

The village of Oquossoc has long been the sleepy, other-side-of-the-lake counterpart to Rangeley. The surrounding area draws boaters, anglers, skiers, snowmobilers, and anyone else who enjoys the ...

After running out of salt while cooking on the remote island, Beaudoin made her own and became mesmerized by the process of ...

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The first time Gilbert Butler saw kayakers running a wild river, he was a young man visiting Maine. Even then, he was a capable outdoorsperson, fond of hiking and canoeing around his family home of ...

When Will Bonsall was growing up in Waterville in the 1950s and ’60s, his family lived modestly, and their grocery budgets were often tight. His folks weren’t much for gardening, and what fresh ...

When Gretchen Jaeger was growing up in Bath, in an apartment above her parents’ business, Halcyon Yarn, she couldn’t visualize her hometown accommodating the kind of creative life she longed for. “It ...

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 ...