On a recent afternoon in Woolwich, three generations of Hennins guided a visitor across the grounds of the Shelter Institute, offering a nickel tour of the wooded 68-acre campus where tens of ...

Trail runners start atop York’s Mount Agamenticus, southern Maine’s highest point, at 692 feet. But don’t let the three-digit elevation fool you! Runners head down, then back up, then down, then up a ...

Propane lamps cast a straw-colored, tremulous light throughout The Pioneer Place, U.S.A, Smyrna’s only general store, where the shelves are packed tightly with every tool, dry good, and sundry ...

Just after 4 a.m., still more than two hours before sunrise, 63-year-old Barry Dana, former chief of the Penobscot Nation, pulled into an empty Appalachian Trail parking lot in Monson, at the southern ...

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 ...

One of my favorite aspects of making custom hats is digging into people’s self-expression and what they want to portray with their hat. Madness is inherent to the style of hat that I’m making. Crazy ...

When Philander and Abner Coburn shuffled off this mortal coil, in 1876 and 1885, respectively, the Skowhegan brothers had hundreds of thousands of acres of Maine woodlands to their exquisite ...

With its fast-food joints and big-box stores, the bustling stretch of Route 302 near Sebago Lake probably isn’t where you’re expecting to encounter a refined farm-to-table dining experience. Stepping ...

In the spring of 2022, Morrill Worcester and his sons, Rob and Mike, went on Fox News to, for the first time, publicly reveal plans they had hatched for a swath of remote spruce-fir forest their ...

Shoe manufacturing peaked in Lewiston and Auburn a century ago, a boom before the Depression’s bust, some headline-making strikes, and several disastrous decades of offshoring. In Lewiston, Museum L–A ...

The only combat fatality at the Battle of Caribou — and in the whole of the Aroostook War — was a bear. In late 1838, lumberjacks from New Brunswick were spotted cutting trees near Caribou, which, at ...