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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Canoeing has been intrinsic to life down east for a long while. This is especially true around Grand Lake Stream Plantation, in Washington County, where a sparkling-blue chain of lakes wends its way ...

In a lab at the University of Maine, Dr. Eleanor Groden reaches into a freezer full of dead caterpillars. Inside, they’re laid out in stacks of lidded petri dishes, their carcasses shriveled and ...

Last year was a good one for alewives, the small, silvery, anadromous fish that once migrated up Maine’s streams each spring by the hundreds of millions. For the first time in 50 years, they returned ...

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 ...

Around 1907, an enterprising Ontario farm girl named Florence Nightingale Graham landed in New York City and found work in a shop offering skin creams and treatments. She learned all she could, and ...

Okay, so you might be a fitness nut who heads out on a vigorous hike for the sheer aerobic pleasure of it. Or one of those crunchy granolas who believes that just being out in nature is its own reward ...

Maine’s most influential architects since the early 19th century designed buildings that expressed the priorities and aspirations of their generation. But their projects were not merely of the moment.

And the tides rose and fell on the shore. For nearly 50 years, the cover of the children’s classic The Little Island attributed these opening lines to one Golden MacDonald. In 1947, when the book’s ...