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 ...

As the 19th century came to a close, Maine was on the cusp — or precipice, depending on perspective — of becoming Vacationland. From Kennebunkport to Moosehead Lake to Bar Harbor, rail service had ...

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.

Perched along the sloped western edge of Mount Kineo island in Moosehead Lake, a line of charming, 1900s-era cottages snuggles beneath the mountain’s hulking, furrowed-rock face. On a still morning ...

The shape of Maine is nothing if not peculiar. Quite unlike, say, the perfect rectangles of Wyoming and Colorado, Maine flouts geometric sensibility, from its craggy coastline to the great span of its ...

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 ...

Around 1907, an enterprising Ontario farm girl named Florence Nightingale Graham landed in New York City and found work in a shop offering skin creams and treatments. She learned all she could, and ...

In 1632, having set sail from England, William Wadsworth stepped off the Lyon and onto the docks in Boston. He would go on to become a prominent figure in the founding of Hartford, Connecticut, ...

Propane lamps cast a straw-colored, tremulous light throughout The Pioneer Place, U.S.A, Smyrna’s only general store, where the shelves are packed tightly with every tool, dry good, and sundry ...

Shoe manufacturing peaked in Lewiston and Auburn a century ago, a boom before the Depression’s bust, some headline-making strikes, and several disastrous decades of offshoring. In Lewiston, Museum L–A ...

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 ...

March 8, 1945, started as a routine day for Dean Yeaton. His father’s remote logging camp on the edge of western Maine’s Spencer Lake had no electricity and no running water. In the morning, the ...