Rowman & Littlefield [A] good lobster stew has a divine color, and it is good to make it ahead. A young Canadian friend visiting in the States a few years ago ordered a lobster stew at a diner and ...

Growing up in Southwest Harbor, Lia Morris spent her childhood surrounded by boats. It was inevitable. She had a boatyard in her backyard, because her father, Tom Morris, was a boatbuilder and the ...

It’s early evening, the sun is low in the sky, and I’m gazing out the window of a floatplane, with bush pilot Josh Brown’s voice ringing tinny in my headset. Only seconds ago, he’d apologized for the ...

When printmaker Anastasia Inciardi moved to Portland, in 2020, quarters were hard to come by. Fewer people emptying their pockets at banks and stores during the pandemic had caused a nationwide coin ...

Great Duck Island is a notoriously tough place to land a boat. There’s no dock, just a steep, slippery ramp on the island’s exposed south side, which can only be approached in a Zodiac on a day when ...

On a raw, overcast afternoon last winter, members of Mostly Maine Frosty Fleet No. 9 arrived in the parking lot of the Kittery Point Yacht Club, in New Castle, New Hampshire, and began unloading ...

When it comes to scenery, the coastal enclave of Camden has an embarrassment of riches — its huddled collection of quaint inns, shops, and restaurants; the footbridge over the Megunticook River that ...

And the tides rose and fell on the shore. For nearly 50 years, the cover of the children’s classic The Little Island attributed these opening lines to one Golden MacDonald. In 1947, when the book’s ...

Wakey, wakey, eggs and bakey! And, um, a whole lot more. We got up early and ate our way across the state to bring you this definitive list of Vacationland’s most mouthwatering breakfast dishes — ...

Standing outside the Maine Department of Transportation’s Augusta headquarters recently, chief engineer Joyce Taylor reflected on the few years since she and her staff started getting clever with ...