[W]hen Julia McWilliams first came to Maine one summer after World War II it was to meet the family of her then boy­friend Paul Child. The Childs resided in a partially constructed rustic cabin on the ...

The new, 30,000-square-foot, $15 million Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine, at Portland’s Thompson’s Point, improves upon everything your kids or grandkids loved about the old downtown location.

A coalition of dedicated scientists and high-profile chefs wants to get invasive green crabs out of Maine’s waters and into your belly.

Sears Island is a wooded, egg-shaped piece of land in Penobscot Bay, about the size of New York City’s Central Park. Connected to the mainland via causeway, the island could provide commercial access ...

At the dawn of its eighth decade, the schooner Bowdoin made two triumphant return trips to the north, first to Labrador’s northernmost permanent settlement, in 1990, then to Greenland and across the ...

At 4 a.m. in Monson, when the main street is quiet, Marilou Ranta arrives at The Quarry, wearing her white chef’s coat and a “Queen B” embroidered trucker hat. In the kitchen, singing along to disco ...

Your region-by-region preview of the traditions, activities, and events that make summer in the Pine Tree State unforgettable. Time to start planning your vacation.

Jeremy Frey has been thinking about legacies, the one he inherited and the one he will pass on. Slender, with a closely trimmed beard, the 46-year-old Passamaquoddy basketmaker is in his home studio ...

First Rangeway is a long residential thoroughfare off Kennedy Memorial Drive, about a mile east of where you might exit I-95. Where it T-bones, you can either turn left, wending your way up Mayflower ...