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

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 ...

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

Dr. Jay Knudsen, a doctor of dental surgery at Great East Dental, shares how a healthier smile can lead to a longer life.

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 ...

Of the state’s more than 6,000 lakes and ponds, Cobbosseecontee made for a likely suspect. A lake-vulnerability assessment by the Department of Environmental Protection, also in 2018, had given ...

[dropcap letter=”O”]n warm evenings, the little windows on Elizabeth and Marty Lakeman’s Phippsburg potting shed glow like fireflies in cupped palms. Guided by the golden fenestration, guests cross ...

Not all bark is created equal, 82-year-old Butch Phillips says, and he should know. For more than 30 years, Phillips, a member of the Penobscot Nation who grew up on Indian Island, has been making ...

Barren Mountain. Trailhead: At the end of Otter Pond Rd., off Mountain Rd., 2.7 miles beyond the Borestone Mountain Trailhead. Barren is the first mountain AT hikers climb in the 100 Mile, and it’s ...

On the morning of August 8, 1943, three gunshots rang out across Clear Lake, a wilderness pond in Maine’s Allagash region. Members of the posse combing the dense surrounding forest stopped in their ...

In Maine’s Pontoon Capital, a Wet, Hot Lakeside Summer. Pontoon flotillas! Dance parties! Disco-themed booze cruises! The little town of Naples is one big party all season long — and nowhere else in ...

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 ...