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 ...

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.

It’s true, there are plenty of fish in the sea. Maine fishermen, though, haven’t had much choice but to leave them there. Over the past several decades, the state’s groundfishing fleet dwindled ...

[dropcap letter=”D”]riving through Maine, you sooner or later pass under high-tension wires. On either side of the road, big clear-cut corridors — the interstate highways of the power grid — stretch ...

Inspired by Maine’s enterprising brewers, a few delicacy swaps we’d like to see. [cs_drop_cap letter=”M” color=”#ffcc00″ size=”5em” ]aine’s ...

Today, art and horticulture remain two of the pillars of kdb’s life — and, well, two out of three ain’t bad. At 58, she is passionate about biosophy, the belief that the divine is found in all of the ...

[cs_drop_cap letter=”I” color=”#000000″ size=”5em” ]n the 24 years that Scott and Karen Logan ran Blue Mermaid restaurant in Portsmouth, they watched as ...

1. “I purchased this Mason & Hamlin pump organ from the great-granddaughter of the original owners, who acquired it around 1882 by trading a cow. It was transported to different houses around ...

Welcome spring early with a sinuous arrangement of forced bulbs and backyard greens dreamed up by Beth Renault, of Mount Desert’s Floret. 1. Purchase bulbs and succulents and gather rocks, greens, ...

“What we set out to do was to build reasonably sized houses that perform super well — and don’t look weird,” says Alan Gibson, principal of Belfast design-build firm GO Logic. The first house in the ...