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 ...

The century-old Snell Family Farm, in Buxton, is usually pretty quiet in early spring. I live down the road, and I’ve roasted the Snells’ beets, sautéed their garlic scapes, and planted my garden with ...

[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 ...

When Judy Minaudo was growing up in suburban Cleveland in the ’60s, her grandmother’s house was one of the grooviest spots around. At Christmastime, a futuristic aluminum tree bedecked with pink and ...

Massachusetts designer Hannah Oravec and her husband, Michael, bought their 1986 log cabin for its wooded five acres on Brunswick’s Harpswell Cove. “We were looking at it like, let’s find a cool ...

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 ...