Greg Bates was thinking he should catch up on some Oscar-nominated movies from earlier this year. He did not, however, reach for the TV remote and scroll for Netflix or Prime Video. Instead, he hopped ...

What Life Is Like Aboard One of Maine’s Historic Schooners Down East staff photographer Dave Waddell embarks on a six-day cruise to find out what it means to explore Penobscot Bay and some of the ...

Dana Bourgeois’s hand-crafted instruments have struck a chord with stars like Natalie Maines, Ray Lamontagne, Luke Bryan, and others.

Maine makes lots of ice cream, but few of those ice creams rival the high-butterfat decadence of Gifford’s. The 43-year-old operation can churn out a whopping 14,000 gallons of frozen dairy per day, ...

By Michaela Cavallaro Photographed by Ryan David Brown On a recent visit to Walkers Maine in Cape Neddick, the duck thigh arrived with crispy skin and meat that melted off the bone into fried rice ...

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 ...

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 ...

1. Plan of attack. If this scavenger hunt simply inspires you to check out a few new things here or there over the course of the next several months, you probably don’t need much of a strategy. But if ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Meg Rich went to the Knox County Registry of Deeds to research the prior owners of her 1837 Rockland home, the receptionist assumed she was looking for a ghost. “She said, ‘most people like you ...

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.