Visit a sandy beach Southern Maine ’ s beaches range from Kennebunkport’s Goose Rocks Beach, known for its white sand and tide pools, to bustling Old Orchard Beach, with its iconic pier and beachside ...

Born to a teenage single mother, Melissa Crowe lived with her grandfather and four uncles in a two-bedroom house on the edge of Presque Isle, by an abandoned airport. Winters were long, and she slept ...

The line at Red’s Eats, in Wiscasset, snaked around the corner on a warm Saturday afternoon this fall. Many of the customers had queued up even before the iconic stand had opened, and all were eager ...

Larry Beals, a Boston-based real estate developer, initially wanted to buy a second home in Vermont to be close to a ski area, and in 1986, he and his wife, Karen, purchased a 100-acre 1800’s Vermont ...

A ketch’s mainmast is forward and its smaller mizzenmast is aft. “In the old days, when they were sailing cargo, the schooner wasn’t as great going upwind, so putting that bigger sail forward made the ...

Leigh I. Saufley served as a justice on the Maine courts for 30 years, the last 18 as Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. But in 2020, she willingly left what she described as the best ...

Portlander Mimi Olins’s creamy, free-form stoneware is a perfect foil for menu items at the city’s swanky Twelve restaurant and James Beard Award–winning Zu Bakery (owned by her husband, Barak) — and ...

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If anyone could appreciate a good road, it was Adrian Brochu, who kept motorcycles stashed in Florida and Nevada so he could ride in warm weather year-round. He also appreciated the Maine woods and ...

The jewel tones of Joseph Webster’s glassware are so vivid they catch the eye from across a room. The hues fade from top to bottom, with a thin, dark scribble whorled throughout. The individually ...

In an industrial park in South Portland’s Cash Corner neighborhood, wedged between auto-body garages and equipment suppliers, a sign with a rainbow bursting out of a welding helmet marks the entrance ...

The Bowdoin International Music Festival is one of the world’s premier music institutes. Founded in 1964, the Festival engages exceptional students and enthusiastic audiences through world-class ...