By Sara Anne Donnelly Photos by Michael D. Wilson From our July 2025 issue. It was a few minutes before showtime on Number One Pond, in Sanford, last summer. The evening sun, thinly veiled by clouds, ...

Jane Donelon was an ardent gardener when she moved to a Brunswick subdivision 50 years ago. Nevertheless, her quarter-acre lot intimidated her. “It’s got hills in front of the house, hills on the ...

Photos courtesy of the University of Maine at Farmington. One of the school’s growing interdisciplinary programs is a four-year Outdoor Recreation Business Administration program, launched in ...

By Sarah Stebbins Photos by Erin Little From our June 2025 issue. For seven months, J and Clementine Cavanagh lived with their young kids and dog in a tiny house on their Phippsburg property. The ...

Grand Laker canoe builder and Registered Maine Guide Nate Bacon, on a Big Lake fishing trip last summer. Then, in the 1920s, someone showed up in town with a curious new bit of technology, an outboard ...

Last year, a bidding war broke out at the London Book Fair over St. Albans native Austin Taylor’s debut novel. In the end, a seven-figure deal was struck for the North American rights to Notes on ...

Most of Jackson’s perennials are divisions of plants transplanted from her former home in Dixmont or bought at nurseries. Her practice of walking through the beds and shaking the ripe seed pods of ...

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 ...

By Bhavana Scalia-Bruce Updated on June 6, 2025. With warm weather rolling in, it’s time to plan for some Maine summer fun, so we’ve put together a list of activities across the state for you to check ...

Arlin Smith remembers the first time he ate a raw oyster. He was fourteen, a Buffalo boy with little experience with shellfish. “It was a Pemaquid,” he says reverently. “It was joy, salt, and sweet.

Lon Cameron's Maine Float crafts picnic table boats that feature umbrellas, retractable swim ladders, and quiet electric ...