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 ...

All along the U.S. border with Canada — even deep in the willywacks of the Maine woods — field crews dispatched by the International Boundary Commission are responsible for maintaining a cleared strip ...

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 ...

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.

After sliding into a corner seat at Portland’s Bread & Friends on a recent Thursday evening, I turned to my friend and made a prediction: the two empty tables next to ours wouldn’t stay that way for ...

They moved out, then put their kitchen and living-room reno budget toward remediation. ABOVE The Fischers and their sons, Ross, 11, Drew, 8, and Lewis, 4, play in front of their Greek Revival, built ...

Eastport rings in the new year twice— first at 11 p.m. (when it’s midnight in neighboring New Brunswick), with the drop of a big maple leaf and a round of “O Canada,” and then again at 12 a.m., with ...

In a state where Mexico is less than an hour’s drive north of Norway, with Paris wedged in between, it’s easy to wonder why towns are called what they are. John McDonald and Marion Fearing’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...