The object: Steve and Mark Ferguson remember that their father’s Hudson Bay axe only came out of its box when it was time to go canoeing. The Fergusons grew up chopping wood for the woodstove in their ...

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 ...

As she walked a hayfield on Dennis and Nancy Curtis Bowden’s farm, in Waldoboro, Laura Suomi-Lecker gently swept a long stick through the tall grasses, which bent with the brief imprint of her trail.

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 ...

In a state where Mexico is less than an hour’s drive north of Norway, with Paris wedged in between, it’s easy to wonder why towns are called what they are. John McDonald and Marion Fearing’s ...

After sliding into a corner seat at Portland’s Bread & Friends on a recent Thursday evening, I turned to my friend and made a prediction: the two empty tables next to ours wouldn’t stay that way for ...

If you’ve ever wondered at a ruby-red cardinal or black-capped chickadee flitting about your frozen yard, you know that winter bird-watching is something to crow about. “Some species that can be ...

In the nearly 20 years since Richard Leslie retired from a career in catalog and retail marketing, he’s been spending time on the trails, in the garden, on the ski slopes, and in the boardrooms of ...

As the 19th century came to a close, Maine was on the cusp — or precipice, depending on perspective — of becoming Vacationland. From Kennebunkport to Moosehead Lake to Bar Harbor, rail service had ...

Trailhead: 3.3 miles south of the Brickett Place on Rte. 113, turn left on Deer Hill Rd. (becoming Shell Pond Rd. and Evergreen Valley Rd.). Follow for 4.5 miles to the Horseshoe Pond Trailhead. This ...

Dick LaCasse was swiveling between sewing, gluing, and finishing machines, fixing beat-up shoes in his shop in downtown Skowhegan, when a man wearing a camo jacket dropped a pair of heavy-duty boots ...

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 ...