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 ...

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 ...

They moved out, then put their kitchen and living-room reno budget toward remediation. ABOVE The Fischers and their sons, Ross, 11, Drew, 8, and Lewis, 4, play in front of their Greek Revival, built ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ellen Okolita always thought of herself as a creative, but it wasn’t until 2014 that she discovered her ideal medium: felt. Her children decided that year they wanted to be an owl and a flamingo for ...

Founded: 2015, following the deaths of its founders, married midcoast artists Joan Marie Beauregard and John David Ellis, though the couple had started another foundation in 2009, funding local arts ...

The Spanish sundae, one of pastry chef Ilma Lopez’s ultra-creative desserts, begins — improbable as it may sound — with a leg of ham. Or more precisely, with a variety of Basque pig fed an acorn-only ...

First-time visitors to Vesta might note the bubbly elliptical pizzas and plates of pecorino-studded rigatoni on their neighbors’ tables and figure they’re in for homey trattoria fare. Then again, they ...

The first time Elsie Freeman’s father visited her new cottage on Barters Island, in Boothbay, he sank up to his hips in the storm-sodden front yard. “I guess we need something to hold the slope,” ...

Elizabeth Smith suddenly became very animated during dinner at the Trailing Yew inn. “It would pain me not to have Monhegan. Just pain me.” Every day throughout the summer, the inn serves a communal ...

Anne Buckwalter in her kitchen, where she painted the floral-patterned backsplash. Anne Buckwalter’s unassuming pale-green cape blends into its woodsy Durham plot. The interior, though, bursts forth ...