The village of Oquossoc has long been the sleepy, other-side-of-the-lake counterpart to Rangeley. The surrounding area draws boaters, anglers, skiers, snowmobilers, and anyone else who enjoys the ...

At Highfields Farm, columns of raised beds corral a leggy late-season bloomer. This year, they are cultivating 120 varieties ...

After running out of salt while cooking on the remote island, Beaudoin made her own and became mesmerized by the process of ...

He did not, however, reach for the TV remote and scroll for Netflix or Prime Video. Instead, he hopped in his car and headed to Opera House Video, the 30-year-old rental shop in downtown Belfast.

A coalition of dedicated scientists and high-profile chefs wants to get invasive green crabs out of Maine’s waters and into your belly.

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The first time Gilbert Butler saw kayakers running a wild river, he was a young man visiting Maine. Even then, he was a capable outdoorsperson, fond of hiking and canoeing around his family home of ...

When Gretchen Jaeger was growing up in Bath, in an apartment above her parents’ business, Halcyon Yarn, she couldn’t visualize her hometown accommodating the kind of creative life she longed for. “It ...

[cs_drop_cap letter=”W” size=”5em” ]hen Jensen Bissell, director of northern Maine’s Baxter State Park, first arrived in Millinocket in 1987, the Great Northern Paper mills were booming, and local ...

In a humid summer night in central Maine, inside a defunct 1834 gristmill, Erin French is working in an open kitchen, moving purposefully between an elegant Lacanche range and a white double farmhouse ...

On his three journeys into Maine’s north woods, Henry David Thoreau three times skirted the ragged chain of peaks that cuts a northeasterly course from the little town of Monson to the foot of ...

Readers tell similar stories about their first encounters with the book. Many seemed to have found it at health-food stores, and many say they read it in a single sitting. Some were moved to write the ...