Some 15 years ago, on one of my family’s traditional summer journeys from Indian Island to Acadia, I stood at the summit of what’s now called Cadillac Mountain, overhearing a park ranger giving a tour ...

1. LifeFlight of Maine is not just a general name for medical-transport helicopters. News reports of accidents or other emergencies in Maine will often mention LifeFlight by name, but people may not ...

At Labadie’s Bakery, the 100-year-old shop in downtown Lewiston, cakes for the whoopie pies start going in the oven around midnight. At 3 in the morning, the person known as the filler arrives, ...

The restaurant's Cambodian-inspired cooking received national acclaim after opening last year. Well, expectations were met and exceeded. The oyster mushrooms were probably what first convinced me that ...

Fifty years ago, Kathleen Sullivan had an epiphany on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. “I thought, if I don’t get out of here, I will want every fur coat and pair of shoes that I see.” Soon after, Sullivan ...

Sanders recently bought a house in Bath that was constructed for World War I shipbuilders. “It’s similar to the house where I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, which was built for returning World War II ...

The trick to growing ginger in Maine, Dave Allen says, is to convince the ginger that it’s not in Maine at all. He and his partner, Erica Emery, own Rustic Roots Farm, in Farmington, and for the past ...

For 172 years, Hancock Lumber has been carefully cultivating eastern white pine, ensuring that Maine’s signature resource remains vibrant for future generations. Forget lobster — no Maine natural ...

With no backcountry to speak of, Acadia is one of the country’s few dog-friendly national parks: all the carriage roads, most trails, and all the campgrounds (except on Isle au Haut) welcome leashed ...

The harbor steamed like a pot of soup. Spires and drifts of mist whirled across the silver foil of the sea, and the sky was a clear, hard blue. The vapor had turned from pink to gold in the rising sun ...

Another year, another crop of more than 2,600 amazing photos submitted to our annual photo contest. We winnowed the submissions down to a batch of semi-finalists in three categories: wildlife, ...

One of the strangest parts about being famous in the particular way that Nirav Shah is famous is that strangers often approach him and burst into tears. That and the Diet Cokes, cans of which get tied ...