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 ...

Visit a sandy beach Southern Maine ’ s beaches range from Kennebunkport’s Goose Rocks Beach, known for its white sand and tide pools, to bustling Old Orchard Beach, with its iconic pier and beachside ...

The line at Red’s Eats, in Wiscasset, snaked around the corner on a warm Saturday afternoon this fall. Many of the customers had queued up even before the iconic stand had opened, and all were eager ...

Born to a teenage single mother, Melissa Crowe lived with her grandfather and four uncles in a two-bedroom house on the edge of Presque Isle, by an abandoned airport. Winters were long, and she slept ...

A ketch’s mainmast is forward and its smaller mizzenmast is aft. “In the old days, when they were sailing cargo, the schooner wasn’t as great going upwind, so putting that bigger sail forward made the ...

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 ...

Sears Island is a wooded, egg-shaped piece of land in Penobscot Bay, about the size of New York City’s Central Park. Connected to the mainland via causeway, the island could provide commercial access ...

On the state Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry website, an interactive map tracks every bit of conserved land across all of Maine. Check only the box for federally protected lands, ...

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 ...

A spate of attacks by rabid animals has residents of Bath and nearby towns on high alert — and choosing sides in an escalating fracas. Norman Kenney, Bath’s 89-year-old retired fire chief, walks with ...

Step onto the brick sidewalks in Bath’s downtown and you don’t have to stretch your imagination to visualize the city’s 19th-century heyday, when it bustled with boatyards, sail lofts, and chandleries ...