After a series of closures and years of restoration, the Art Deco playhouse on Mount Desert Island is ready for its next act.

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.

We're giving away a set of four general admission tickets and a set of two VIP tickets to the September 11-14 event to two lucky winners.

My introduction to Bucky Fuller (R. Buckminster Fuller, the architect-philosopher, that is) was purest slapstick with the zany touch of an old Laurel and Hardy movie. Time: a winter’s evening in 1916.

A little over 30 years ago, Howard Hardy visited a cousin who was chopping wood with an axe he said was made in Oakland. Intrigued, Hardy began keeping an eye out for other locally crafted cutting ...

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 ...

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 ...

People come from around the world to visit Mount Desert Island and experience the renowned beauty of Acadia National Park. What they don’t see, though, are the many people working behind the scenes to ...

It was the middle of October and Cobbosseecontee Lake was perfectly still, a mirror reflecting a sky thick with billowing clouds. Em Russell was standing on the stern of a little motorboat, wearing ...

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 ...