Over 30 years working as an environmental scientist and planner, quilting had been Judy Gates’s creative outlet. But in 2020, the medium had her feeling boxed in. “I wanted a way to still use fabric ...

A framed photo, taken around 1920, hangs on the dining-room wall at Mezza, a black-and-white image showing a row of houses pressed up tightly against the Kennebec River, in Waterville’s Head of Falls ...

A long line of talented authors has fostered a vibrant literary scene in Maine, with lots of support from our state’s community of avid readers. So it should come as no surprise that Maine boasts the ...

“I’ve known Cooper his whole life,” says Josh Grant, who coached the Flagg twins both in middle school and, as an assistant, ...

A one-lane road winds tortuously through a kind of Black Forest of hemlock, spruce, and giant rhododendron, crosses a rushing stream, barely skirts granite outcroppings thick with lichens, drops into ...

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 ...

Shortly after moving into her Lovell fixer-upper, in 2017, Kimberly Crichton realized she was not alone. The 1920s cottage had stood empty for three years after the prior owner passed away, and mice ...

When Sara White and her husband, Bob, moved to The Highlands retirement community, in Topsham, in 2015, they were eager to connect with their neighbors and establish a new sense of home. While both ...

When Amy Vachon joined the UMaine Women’s basketball team as a point guard, in 1996, Cindy Blodgett was the leading scorer for the Black Bears and the entire NCAA Division I league. Vachon had been ...

When she’s back in Maine, find the space archaeologist picnicking on MDI’s Seal Harbor Beach.

A by-the-numbers look at a unique building's impending facelift at New Gloucester’s Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village. Maine through the lens of the late photographer Alec Hartman, a Sabattus artist ...