When I was a child, Squirrel Island was another name for heaven, with the blue sky overhead and the blue sea all around it. From 1878, when I was an infant of six months, until 1905, when I was ...

I remember the first time I went to an old-fashioned soda fountain as a kid. I was maybe 12 or 13, and new owners had just reopened a 1920s drugstore not far from where my family lived, in Pittsburgh.

Rowman & Littlefield [A] good lobster stew has a divine color, and it is good to make it ahead. A young Canadian friend visiting in the States a few years ago ordered a lobster stew at a diner and ...

Larry Beals, a Boston-based real estate developer, initially wanted to buy a second home in Vermont to be close to a ski area, and in 1986, he and his wife, Karen, purchased a 100-acre 1800’s Vermont ...

Portlander Mimi Olins’s creamy, free-form stoneware is a perfect foil for menu items at the city’s swanky Twelve restaurant and James Beard Award–winning Zu Bakery (owned by her husband, Barak) — and ...

She may call her new fine-dining eatery The Lost Kitchen, but thirty-one year old chef-owner Erin French knew the restaurant’s location before she gained the skills, talent, or finances to run it. “I ...

Monday, July 27, 2020, dawned sultry and bright on Bailey Island, a village of about 400 full-time residents in the midcoast town of Harpswell. Early that morning, lobsterboats sputtered out of ...

One of the strangest parts about being famous in the particular way that Nirav Shah is famous is that strangers often approach him and burst into tears. That and the Diet Cokes, cans of which get tied ...

In 2016, Carly Bahler arrived in Madawaska to study the local French. She was a PhD student with midwestern vowels and an infectious sort of brio, and soon after checking in at her convent turned ...

Jane Donelon was an ardent gardener when she moved to a Brunswick subdivision 50 years ago. Nevertheless, her quarter-acre lot intimidated her. “It’s got hills in front of the house, hills on the ...

On a recent Saturday at the Little Jubba Central Maine Agrarian Commons, Ali Hamsa and Muhidin Libah took a break from building a fence around a goat pasture to share a laugh at the orneriest kid in ...

Ellen Thayer’s knack for finding heart shapes in her daily life is astounding. In addition to her ever-growing collection of more than 700 “love rocks,” mostly found on the beaches of southern Maine, ...