From festivals and fairs to marathons and boat races, there’s plenty of events in Maine this summer to put on your calendar.

Ellen Jackson lives on a busy road in Farmingdale, but her home seems to float above the din, tucked behind a curtain of lilac, mock orange, and sour-cherry blossoms. Like many first-time visitors, I ...

Although he’s Korean, chef Hwansoo Kim has nursed a fascination with Japanese culture ever since he was a kid reading manga comics in Seoul. It was there, in the South Korean capital, that he trained ...

A half century ago, the futurist was tinkering with a wind machine, writing love poems, and literally dancing to his own beat ...

Dr. Jay Knudsen, a doctor of dental surgery at Great East Dental, shares how a healthier smile can lead to a longer life.

Sears Island is a wooded, egg-shaped piece of land in Penobscot Bay, about the size of New York City’s Central Park. Connected to the mainland via causeway, the island could provide commercial access ...

One morning this past spring, after commercial elver fishermen had met their quotas and elver buyers had closed up shop for the season, two fyke nets showed up where the Megunticook River empties into ...

The Houlton Band of Maliseets’ administrative headquarters, built to resemble a log cabin, sits on a small tract of tribal land in Aroostook County, just north of where I-95 intersects the Canadian ...

A woman in so exclusive a gentlemen’s club as the United States Senate is bound to stand out. She naturally attracts more attention than 99 men. A visitor to the Senate Chamber looks around and says: ...

The kolache is a cosmopolitan pastry: well-traveled, adaptable. It was the Czechs who started stuffing fruit filling into folds of puffy, semisweet yeast dough, and they brought kolaches to Texas ...

[dropcap letter=”O”]n warm evenings, the little windows on Elizabeth and Marty Lakeman’s Phippsburg potting shed glow like fireflies in cupped palms. Guided by the golden fenestration, guests cross ...