It wasn’t yet six in the morning at Mission Working Dogs’s sprawling new campus, in Oxford, but Christy Gardner, founder of the nonprofit group that trains service and therapy dogs, had already been ...

[cs_drop_cap letter=”R” color=”#000000″ size=”5em” ]onald Reagan spent his vacations in seclusion on a ranch in California. When George Bush takes his ...

For many in Maine, the arrival of winter means lacing up skates for breezy spins around the local pond. Ideally, a thermos of hot chocolate is involved. For a relative few, cold, clear days are an ...

Around 1907, an enterprising Ontario farm girl named Florence Nightingale Graham landed in New York City and found work in a shop offering skin creams and treatments. She learned all she could, and ...

I’m walking across the top of the historic Mill Pond dam, in Whiting village, admiring the beauty of the water rushing below, when Jacob van de Sande tells me the nearly 200-year-old stone structure ...

Nina Fuller’s photojournalistic résumé includes work in The New York Times and The Boston Globe and a stint as one of the Portland Press Herald’s earliest female staff photographers. After moving to ...

Owls Head Transportation Museum With its large collection of classic cars, motorcycles, and airplanes, the Owls Head Transportation Museum appeals to all ages. Most of the vehicles still run, and on ...

In May, the Portland Planning Board unanimously approved the construction of what will be, by some measures, Maine’s tallest building. The 18-story, 190-foot-high behemoth at 200 Federal Street will ...

At a stream in central Maine, guides handed out basic tools: a long wooden pole for pushing canoes through the shallow water, plus two short, thick sticks for collecting wild rice from the grasses ...

The 20th-anniversary release of Wilco’s seminal 2001 record Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is currently up two Grammys: Best Historical Album and Best Album Notes. An ideal winter midcoast day ends with a ...

The list includes Bath kitchen store Now You’re Cooking and Georgetown’s Gray Havens Inn, a seaside B&B where he co-leads learning retreats. “When I think of Maine in the summertime, I think of being ...

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 ...