Ellen Jackson lives on a busy road in Farmingdale, but her home seems to float above the din, tucked behind a curtain of ...

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.

Ice cream is a critical element of every Vacationland summer. Strolling down Main Street or sitting on a bench by the shore or relaxing after a hike — are any quintessential Maine experiences not ...

Since childhood, Dr. Jay Knudsen was attracted to the dental profession because of its “cool tools.” Now, as a doctor of dental surgery at Great East Dental, in Springvale, Knudsen prides himself on ...

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 ...

Heavy-duty pickups roared past Heather McCargo’s Prius as she pulled onto the shoulder of Route 11A, in Springvale. It was a cool, clear July day, and the 62-year-old founder of the nonprofit Wild ...

One morning this past spring, after commercial elver fishermen had met their quotas and elver buyers had closed up shop for the season, two fyke nets showed up where the Megunticook River empties into ...

I’m walking across the top of the historic Mill Pond dam, in Whiting village, admiring the beauty of the water rushing below, when Jacob van de Sande tells me the nearly 200-year-old stone structure ...

In Venice, Rocca says, the traditional preparation for moeche is to take a half-dozen live soft-shell crabs and let them hang out in an egg batter for a few hours (Rocca calls this “their last meal”).

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 ...