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 ...

Chalk it up to better marketing, milder winters, some new outdoor-rec opportunities, or just a boost in hardiness among would-be tourists, but in the last six years, overnight visitation to Maine has ...

It wasn’t yet six in the morning at Mission Working Dogs’s sprawling new campus, in Oxford, but Christy Gardner, founder of the nonprofit group that trains service and therapy dogs, had already been ...

Jason K. Brown spent the first weeks of the year innovating a form of inlaid jewelry. Descended from a long line of Penobscot beadworkers and basketmakers, Brown wove thin strips of argentium silver ...

On Saturday morning, October 21, 1911, a crippled wreck of a schooner, towed by a small power boat, edged its way into Portland Harbor. Patched and stained trysails drooped from her two masts, and ...

Downtown Bangor is surrounded by neighborhoods of fine 19th-century homes, but sophisticated residences in the commercial district are something new. Recently, developers have remodeled neglected ...

For many in Maine, the arrival of winter means lacing up skates for breezy spins around the local pond. Ideally, a thermos of hot chocolate is involved. For a relative few, cold, clear days are an ...

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 ...

Main Streets with moxie! In our July 2021 issue, we took a look at six of our favorite downtowns from all across the state — and the businesses, buildings, and boosters that make them great. Read up ...

In May, the Portland Planning Board unanimously approved the construction of what will be, by some measures, Maine’s tallest building. The 18-story, 190-foot-high behemoth at 200 Federal Street will ...

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 ...

Searsport is no longer the locus of global trade its deepwater port made it in the 19th century, but it’s still got ornate sea-captain’s homes and imposing brick-and-granite commercial buildings, in ...