In 1922, John D. Rockefeller Jr. revealed himself to be something of a busybody. “My dear Mr. Ford,” the financier and philanthropist wrote to his neighbor Edsel, shortly after visiting the 80-acre ...

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 ...

Maine makes lots of ice cream, but few of those ice creams rival the high-butterfat decadence of Gifford’s. The 43-year-old operation can churn out a whopping 14,000 gallons of frozen dairy per day, ...

Dana Bourgeois’s hand-crafted instruments have struck a chord with stars like Natalie Maines, Ray Lamontagne, Luke Bryan, and others.

The back roads of the Ossipee Valley are quiet and pastoral, perfect for a country drive. And Cornish, halfway between Portland and the White Mountains, is the perfect place to stretch your legs — and ...

As she walked a hayfield on Dennis and Nancy Curtis Bowden’s farm, in Waldoboro, Laura Suomi-Lecker gently swept a long stick through the tall grasses, which bent with the brief imprint of her trail.

Perched along the sloped western edge of Mount Kineo island in Moosehead Lake, a line of charming, 1900s-era cottages snuggles beneath the mountain’s hulking, furrowed-rock face. On a still morning ...

Hospice can be a scary word, but president and chief executive officer of Andwell Health Partners Ken Albert sees it differently. “I think hospice is a national treasure,” he says. “It is the only ...

Founded: 2015, following the deaths of its founders, married midcoast artists Joan Marie Beauregard and John David Ellis, though the couple had started another foundation in 2009, funding local arts ...

Employee ownership does more than boost morale and enrich retirement accounts: It creates a culture of innovation, customer service, and caring that uplifts communities and Maine’s economy. A team of ...

In a state where Mexico is less than an hour’s drive north of Norway, with Paris wedged in between, it’s easy to wonder why towns are called what they are. John McDonald and Marion Fearing’s ...

In the nearly 20 years since Richard Leslie retired from a career in catalog and retail marketing, he’s been spending time on the trails, in the garden, on the ski slopes, and in the boardrooms of ...