Ellen Jackson lives on a busy road in Farmingdale, but her home seems to float above the din, tucked behind a curtain of lilac, mock orange, and sour-cherry blossoms. Like many first-time visitors, I ...

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 ...

The Maine coast's best invite-only speakeasy, a closer look at the state's oldest and most enigmatic rock, "counting the invisible" on Great Duck Island, and more.

A half century ago, the futurist was tinkering with a wind machine, writing love poems, and literally dancing to his own beat ...

From festivals and fairs to marathons and boat races, there’s plenty of events in Maine this summer to put on your calendar.

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 ...

When Will Bonsall was growing up in Waterville in the 1950s and ’60s, his family lived modestly, and their grocery budgets were often tight. His folks weren’t much for gardening, and what fresh ...

In Venice, Rocca says, the traditional preparation for moeche is to take a half-dozen live soft-shell crabs and let them hang out in an egg batter for a few hours (Rocca calls this “their last meal”).

Readers tell similar stories about their first encounters with the book. Many seemed to have found it at health-food stores, and many say they read it in a single sitting. Some were moved to write the ...

Portrait of the artist as a cloud man: Hopkins, who prefers to be barefoot, in one of his North Haven studios. Eric Hopkins was in the Black Hills of South Dakota, on the middle leg of an unplanned ...

Ana Hito came to Vinalhaven last summer with a vision. But when the young, hard-charging restaurateur bucked community expectations, tempers on the island flared. One evening last summer, music ...