Rose Iuro-Damon dips into ice-covered Somes Pond. She’s a member of Cold Tits, Warm Hearts, a group that hosts swims on MDI throughout the winter. After Puranjot Kaur wades up to her shoulders into 36 ...

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 ...

Leigh I. Saufley served as a justice on the Maine courts for 30 years, the last 18 as Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. But in 2020, she willingly left what she described as the best ...

Misty Lane got used to being on the receiving end of glowering looks from passersby while running her Hillbilly Furniture and Furs stand at run-of-the-mill craft fairs. She sells animal furs, skulls, ...

Twenty minutes before the show was slated to begin, the lobby at Belfast’s public library was already thrumming with excited kids. One little girl, in a pink dress and sparkly ruby slippers, bent low ...

Ellen Jackson lives on a busy road in Farmingdale, but her home seems to float above the din, tucked behind a curtain of lilac, mock orange, and sour-cherry blossoms. Like many first-time visitors, I ...

On a recent morning on his neighbor’s Pownal farm, Chris Lombard was teaching three students how to get his rescue Andalusian horse, Tally, to trot. The students took turns holding a long rope ...

A one-lane road winds tortuously through a kind of Black Forest of hemlock, spruce, and giant rhododendron, crosses a rushing stream, barely skirts granite outcroppings thick with lichens, drops into ...

Growing up in Maine’s capital in the ’80s and ’90s, Justin Fecteau thought of Water Street, the heart of downtown Augusta, as a museum that was always closed. “It was my parents and grandparents ...

Editor at large Kathleen Fleury on resettling in Maine — and why you too should take the leap. From the June 2017 issue of Down East magazine. Illustration by ...