When Bar Harbor’s Criterion Theatre opened, in 1932, nearly 2,000 people gathered for back-to-back screenings of Arsène Lupin, a crime movie with a seductive female lead, released shortly before the ...

Tucked down an easily overlooked side street in Bethel’s village center, a few hundred feet back behind the local hardware store, is the small blue-clapboard building that houses Watershed Wood-Fired ...

Susan Leahy's cottage rebuild on Oakhurst Island quickly snowballed into revitalizing adjacent plots, which she opens up for ...

Rick Cochran repurposed rocks unearthed on his property to create a sprawling, sun-dappled forest garden he calls Rock Haven.

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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At the Appalachian Trail Café in Millinocket, Gary Allen sticks out without being conspicuous. To his right, a long table of locals knock back bottomless cups of coffee. Behind him, a couple of ...

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 ...

Monday, July 27, 2020, dawned sultry and bright on Bailey Island, a village of about 400 full-time residents in the midcoast town of Harpswell. Early that morning, lobsterboats sputtered out of ...

Has anyone described Maine’s most iconic mammal more memorably than Henry David Thoreau in The Maine Woods? “Singularly grotesque and awkward to look at,” he wrote. “They made me think of great ...

When Nancy English took over as the Portland Press Herald’s food critic in 2005, Maine’s dining scene had only a fraction of its current variety, creativity, and buzz — and the state’s pizza offerings ...