And at 85, he wants little more than a deck for lounging and strumming his guitar and a tiny cabin for retiring to at the end ...

In Maine, the end of summer always stings a little. Farewell, beach days. Goodbye, ice cream for dinner. But it’s not all bad. The silver lining is that fair season kicks off just as the temps start ...

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 ...

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 ...

Canoeing has been intrinsic to life down east for a long while. This is especially true around Grand Lake Stream Plantation, in Washington County, where a sparkling-blue chain of lakes wends its way ...

A bald eagle visits me every day. I have learned to recognize his voice as he approaches, a querulous complaint against the crows that usually accompany him like a desperate ring of courtiers vying ...

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 ancient Christian Celts ­believed in the existence of supernatural spaces between heaven and earth — “thin places,” they called them, where the distance between the two realms, between the sacred ...

What Stacy Wentworth called his “conversation booth,” at the Kennebunk Farmers’ Market, was not so much a booth as a circle of lawn chairs and a beach umbrella stuck in a bucket of sand. “Rest Awhile.

We have met the enemy, and she is the blackfly. She is a mindless, merciless eating machine, and what she wants to eat is you. What she lacks in physical heft is more than offset by her numbers. She ...

Okay, so you might be a fitness nut who heads out on a vigorous hike for the sheer aerobic pleasure of it. Or one of those crunchy granolas who believes that just being out in nature is its own reward ...