John Robinson was working in building maintenance when he decided to go back to school to explore options for a career in finance. “I did some research and found that UMA offered a very flexible ...

By Sara Anne Donnelly Photos by Michael D. Wilson From our May 2025 issue. In a February 4 YouTube video titled “The Real Reason Artists Hate the Blank Page,” Saco illustrator Lewis Rossignol dons a ...

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.

Erik Francis tends to a fyke net during the Passamaquoddy’s new conservation fishing season. During the commercial elver season, Francis had spent five days away from home — a modest raised ranch at ...

And those communities go back thousands of years, van de Sande reminds me. Long before European settlers altered the river with dams and forestry, the Passamaquoddy used the Orange as a travel ...

Violent interactions between sharks and humans are exceedingly rare. In 2020, the Florida Museum of Natural History’s International Shark Attack File recorded 96 reports of people bitten by sharks ...

By Kathryn Miles Photos by Michael D. Wilson From our December 2016 issue. At the Appalachian Trail Café in Millinocket, Gary Allen sticks out without being conspicuous. To his right, a long table of ...

McCargo spent nearly 35 years working in sustainable horticulture, including five as a head propagator for the Massachusetts-based Native Plant Trust, before founding the Wild Seed Project.In the ’90s ...

By Will Grunewald From our February 2023 issue. Lynne Drexler lived in a white-clapboard house at the end of a long, narrow lane on Monhegan Island, at the foot of a steep slope that climbs to a ...

The book was Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World, quietly self-published by the Nearings in 1954 before reemerging in the ’70s as one of the most influential texts ...

Dunn Falls | Andover. Height: 150 feet Trailhead: The Appalachian Trail trailhead on E B Hill Rd., about 8 miles west of Andover.Parking is across the road and a few hundred feet west. Route: About a ...