I’m walking across the top of the historic Mill Pond dam, in Whiting village, admiring the beauty of the water rushing below, when Jacob van de Sande tells me the nearly 200-year-old stone structure ...
At a stream in central Maine, guides handed out basic tools: a long wooden pole for pushing canoes through the shallow water, plus two short, thick sticks for collecting wild rice from the grasses ...
The 20th-anniversary release of Wilco’s seminal 2001 record Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is currently up two Grammys: Best Historical Album and Best Album Notes. An ideal winter midcoast day ends with a ...
This time of year, interior designer Liz Kirby is as busy as an elf, recording Instagram reels featuring holiday-decorating tutorials and handsomely packaged gifts. Her workshop is the 1968 ...
The view from atop Fort Preble takes in Fort Gorges and South Portland’s spark-plug–style Spring Point Ledge Light. During the Civil War, soldiers from the fort chased down and took captive 23 ...
Elizabeth Smith suddenly became very animated during dinner at the Trailing Yew inn. “It would pain me not to have Monhegan. Just pain me.” Every day throughout the summer, the inn serves a communal ...
Before you get cute and ask: no, there is no candlestick maker at downtown Bangor’s The Butcher The Baker. Nor does the name refer neatly to co-owners Carl Birmingham and Brittany LeVasseur — chef and ...
Classic Hanukkah foods are fried, like potato latkes and the jelly donuts called sufganiyot. They signify the little bit of oil that, some millennia ago, kept a menorah lit in Jerusalem’s temple for ...
More than 30 years later, the biologist who spearheaded the effort reflects on the challenges — and what might have been. “IN OCTOBER 1986, an ad hoc group invited me to the Augusta office of Glen ...
A former head butcher at Portland’s popular Rosemont Market & Bakery, Evan Atwell is New England’s only professional Japanese whetstone sharpener. His shop’s name, Strata, comes “from my love of ...
It was a scene that Norman Rockwell might have set. On a summer night in 1980, a kerchief-clad member of Brewer’s Cub Scout Pack 11 walked across a sparsely furnished stage at the Bangor Auditorium ...
Owls Head Transportation Museum With its large collection of classic cars, motorcycles, and airplanes, the Owls Head Transportation Museum appeals to all ages. Most of the vehicles still run, and on ...