The forest is falling away behind us when Scot Bubier turns his hatchback off the dirt road he calls Smuggler’s Lane and into a meadow, following a track of flattened grass. To our right is the edge ...

When the operators of Harris Dam send thousands of cubic feet of water downstream, the river, otherwise sedate and cobble strewn, springs to life.

Mid-1800s newspaper ads proclaiming “WATERFORD WATER CURE!” beckoned the sick and feeble to the Maine Hydropathic Institute. There, they would receive treatment, as the New York Tribune put it, “in ...

Atlantic puffins in Maine represent a globally recognized victory in wildlife conservation — and they offer a poignant warning about climate change in New England. Indisputably one of the cutest birds ...

During a trip to Bar Harbor in the mid ’90s, Cheryl Staples spotted a chunk of sea glass shining like a sapphire on the beach. She dug it out, dusted it off, and held it up to the sun. The smoothed ...

I suppose the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. My husband, Mario, grew up in the California desert, dreaming of the Colorado mountains. I grew up in Maine, 13 miles inland, ...

Yarmouth author Leela Marie Hidier’s 2022 Changes in the Weather, written in the Telling Room’s Young Emerging Authors program, earned her a Hindi’s Libraries Females of Fiction Award and a recent ...

Supplies delivered by dogsled, more companies making PPE, and a Maine-made COVID-19 test promising results in minutes, not days. Convenience-store clerk and dogsled racer Hannah Lucas has been mushing ...

The four-faced, 18-foot-tall Hay & Peabody clock started counting time in 1925, commissioned to mark the 25th anniversary of an eponymous funeral home on Congress Street. By 2017, its cast-iron body ...

HEAVYWEIGHT: A colonel who held back Confederate troops at the Battle of Gettysburg, Joshua Chamberlain served four terms as Maine’s governor, until 1870, before becoming president of Bowdoin College.