When I first moved to Maine, nearly 15 years ago, The Good Table was one of the first places my in-laws took me to eat. They’d settled in Cape Elizabeth in 1980, four years before father-daughter ...

Thank you to all the proud pet owners who nominated pets for the contest and to our contest sponsor, ElleVet Sciences. Hundreds of photos were submitted from all over the country. A portion of the ...

Trailhead: 3.3 miles south of the Brickett Place on Rte. 113, turn left on Deer Hill Rd. (becoming Shell Pond Rd. and Evergreen Valley Rd.). Follow for 4.5 miles to the Horseshoe Pond Trailhead. This ...

If you’ve ever wondered at a ruby-red cardinal or black-capped chickadee flitting about your frozen yard, you know that winter bird-watching is something to crow about. “Some species that can be ...

1. Plan of attack. If this scavenger hunt simply inspires you to check out a few new things here or there over the course of the next several months, you probably don’t need much of a strategy. But if ...

In the nearly 20 years since Richard Leslie retired from a career in catalog and retail marketing, he’s been spending time on the trails, in the garden, on the ski slopes, and in the boardrooms of ...

Dick LaCasse was swiveling between sewing, gluing, and finishing machines, fixing beat-up shoes in his shop in downtown Skowhegan, when a man wearing a camo jacket dropped a pair of heavy-duty boots ...

As she walked a hayfield on Dennis and Nancy Curtis Bowden’s farm, in Waldoboro, Laura Suomi-Lecker gently swept a long stick through the tall grasses, which bent with the brief imprint of her trail.

On a recent afternoon in a retrofitted Lewiston mill, Dana Bourgeois held a thin spruce board to his ear and tapped it with a calloused finger, coaxing music from the wood. While humidifiers hissed ...

After sliding into a corner seat at Portland’s Bread & Friends on a recent Thursday evening, I turned to my friend and made a prediction: the two empty tables next to ours wouldn’t stay that way for ...