In Maine, the end of summer always stings a little. Farewell, beach days. Goodbye, ice cream for dinner. But it’s not all bad. The silver lining is that fair season kicks off just as the temps start ...

When Bar Harbor’s Criterion Theatre opened, in 1932, nearly 2,000 people gathered for back-to-back screenings of Arsène Lupin, a crime movie with a seductive female lead, released shortly before the ...

At first, Susan Leahy sought only to replace the ramshackle 19th-century cottage she purchased on a small island in Harpswell in 2018. But then the dilapidated cottage next door and falling-down barn ...

Rick Cochran repurposed rocks unearthed on his property to create a sprawling, sun-dappled forest garden he calls Rock Haven.

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 ...

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One summer morning in 1992, Henry Perkins had finished milking his herd of 80 Dutch Belted cows and was on to other chores when a pickup truck pulled up to his Albion farm. The man who stepped out ...

Has anyone described Maine’s most iconic mammal more memorably than Henry David Thoreau in The Maine Woods? “Singularly grotesque and awkward to look at,” he wrote. “They made me think of great ...

One morning this past spring, after commercial elver fishermen had met their quotas and elver buyers had closed up shop for the season, two fyke nets showed up where the Megunticook River empties into ...