What Life Is Like Aboard One of Maine’s Historic Schooners Down East staff photographer Dave Waddell embarks on a six-day cruise to find out what it means to explore Penobscot Bay and some of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thank you to all the proud pet owners who nominated pets for the contest and to our contest sponsor, ElleVet Sciences. Hundreds of photos were submitted from all over the country. A portion of the ...

The shape of Maine is nothing if not peculiar. Quite unlike, say, the perfect rectangles of Wyoming and Colorado, Maine flouts geometric sensibility, from its craggy coastline to the great span of its ...

If you’ve ever wondered at a ruby-red cardinal or black-capped chickadee flitting about your frozen yard, you know that winter bird-watching is something to crow about. “Some species that can be ...

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 ...