For eight years, Chris Cash captained a lobsterboat off Monhegan Island, where she and her family lived full-time. She was ...

Maria Oliveira grew up in Brazil before moving to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she dreamed of a career in medicine. When she learned of the University of Maine at Farmington’s Johnson Scholars ...

Over the next few days, Cameron threw himself into improving the prototype. He added a centerboard to steady the craft, cupholders in the tabletop, and a retractable swim ladder. The upgrade was a hit ...

Bath Clementine comes from a long line of old-house lovers. Her grandparents, and later her parents, owned Georgetown’s 1904 Grey Havens Inn, where she lived for part of her childhood. When she and J ...

By Sara Anne Donnelly Photos by Michael D. Wilson From our July 2025 issue It was a few minutes before showtime on Number One Pond, in Sanford, last summer. The evening sun, thinly veiled by clouds, ...

Situated on a 3 ½-acre lot, the site was once home to a 60-room hotel, fondly recalled as Hotel Albracca, which stood from 1891 until its tragic fire in 1927. With its proximity to both the York ...

Donelon and Jean are well-known in local gardening circles for their Plants for Peace sale, which marked its 38th, and final, anniversary last year. For one hour on one day every spring, they sold ...

By Virginia M. Wright From our September 2012 issue Arlin Smith remembers the first time he ate a raw oyster. He was fourteen, a Buffalo boy with little experience with shellfish. “It was a Pemaquid,” ...

At Mount Desert Island’s Gallery at Somes Sound, Tyra Hanson curates a fine-art collection to complement one-of-a-kind studio ...

Students at Maine School of Science and Mathematics excel in the unique learning environment of the state’s only residential public high school.