My introduction to Bucky Fuller (R. Buckminster Fuller, the architect-philosopher, that is) was purest slapstick with the zany touch of an old Laurel and Hardy movie. Time: a winter’s evening in 1916.

Ice cream is a critical element of every Vacationland summer. Strolling down Main Street or sitting on a bench by the shore or relaxing after a hike — are any quintessential Maine experiences not ...

Since childhood, Dr. Jay Knudsen was attracted to the dental profession because of its “cool tools.” Now, as a doctor of dental surgery at Great East Dental, in Springvale, Knudsen prides himself on ...

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, ...

With quiet coves, iconic lighthouses, and rugged mountain peaks that kiss the sea, Maine offers an abundance of romantic backdrops for popping the question. In 1883, an enterprising local named ...

The University of Maine at Augusta invites students from all stages of life to pursue a career-focused education online or in ...

Monday, July 27, 2020, dawned sultry and bright on Bailey Island, a village of about 400 full-time residents in the midcoast town of Harpswell. Early that morning, lobsterboats sputtered out of ...

I’m walking across the top of the historic Mill Pond dam, in Whiting village, admiring the beauty of the water rushing below, when Jacob van de Sande tells me the nearly 200-year-old stone structure ...

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.

Portrait of the artist as a cloud man: Hopkins, who prefers to be barefoot, in one of his North Haven studios. Eric Hopkins was in the Black Hills of South Dakota, on the middle leg of an unplanned ...