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 ...

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 ...

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.

In the span of a few months, a series of fierce storms reshaped the Maine landscape, battered beloved landmarks, and called waterfront communities’ futures into question in frightening fashion. While ...

It was early Thursday morning, the week before Thanksgiving, and the Penobscot River looked like mirrored glass. Joe Robbins stood on the bank, tossing lines and catching nothing. He often goes out ...

In a largely rural state, without many big-ticket museums or collecting institutions, the work of safeguarding Maine history falls largely to a host of small historical societies, libraries, and other ...

Every time the telephone rings in Bryant Pond, it’s a crank call. That doesn’t mean all the town’s 300 telephone subscribers are displeased with the service. It’s just that they share the unique ...

It all started, Usha Beaudoin says, with a pretzel. In the summer of 2020, the early months of the pandemic, she was on Matinicus Island, where her mother’s family goes back nine generations, with her ...

The table setting was pretty darn lovely — a light-gray runner draped diagonally, beneath a small vase of yellow and white tulips and a couple of squat, flickering candles. The napkins were folded ...

In August 1907, the Boston and Maine Railroad offered discounted tickets of $2 apiece for trips from North Station to what is now Old Orchard Beach. The town’s fine oceanfront hotels, decorated with ...

Main Streets with moxie! In our July 2021 issue, we took a look at six of our favorite downtowns from all across the state — and the businesses, buildings, and boosters that make them great. Read up ...

With no backcountry to speak of, Acadia is one of the country’s few dog-friendly national parks: all the carriage roads, most trails, and all the campgrounds (except on Isle au Haut) welcome leashed ...