Perched along the sloped western edge of Mount Kineo island in Moosehead Lake, a line of charming, 1900s-era cottages snuggles beneath the mountain’s hulking, furrowed-rock face. On a still morning ...

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 ...

Last year was a good one for alewives, the small, silvery, anadromous fish that once migrated up Maine’s streams each spring by the hundreds of millions. For the first time in 50 years, they returned ...

The shape of Maine is nothing if not peculiar. Quite unlike, say, the perfect rectangles of Wyoming and Colorado, Maine flouts geometric sensibility, from its craggy coastline to the great span of its ...

Founded: 2015, following the deaths of its founders, married midcoast artists Joan Marie Beauregard and John David Ellis, though the couple had started another foundation in 2009, funding local arts ...

The first time Elsie Freeman’s father visited her new cottage on Barters Island, in Boothbay, he sank up to his hips in the storm-sodden front yard. “I guess we need something to hold the slope,” ...

First-time visitors to Vesta might note the bubbly elliptical pizzas and plates of pecorino-studded rigatoni on their neighbors’ tables and figure they’re in for homey trattoria fare. Then again, they ...

Elizabeth Smith suddenly became very animated during dinner at the Trailing Yew inn. “It would pain me not to have Monhegan. Just pain me.” Every day throughout the summer, the inn serves a communal ...

Ellen Okolita always thought of herself as a creative, but it wasn’t until 2014 that she discovered her ideal medium: felt. Her children decided that year they wanted to be an owl and a flamingo for ...

People often hear about the important role pollinators play in producing the food we eat. But what exactly is a pollinator? It’s any animal or force that helps transfer pollen from the male part of a ...

During a trip to Bar Harbor in the mid ’90s, Cheryl Staples spotted a chunk of sea glass shining like a sapphire on the beach. She dug it out, dusted it off, and held it up to the sun. The smoothed ...

From our February 2016 issue. I blame Gigi — you know, the 1958 Lerner and Loewe musical where a petulant teenager transforms into an elegant Parisian Cinderella. Gigi has a lovely French accent. The ...