Canoeing has been intrinsic to life down east for a long while. This is especially true around Grand Lake Stream Plantation, in Washington County, where a sparkling-blue chain of lakes wends its way ...

Anne Buckwalter in her kitchen, where she painted the floral-patterned backsplash. Anne Buckwalter’s unassuming pale-green cape blends into its woodsy Durham plot. The interior, though, bursts forth ...

In a lab at the University of Maine, Dr. Eleanor Groden reaches into a freezer full of dead caterpillars. Inside, they’re laid out in stacks of lidded petri dishes, their carcasses shriveled and ...

Last year was a good one for alewives, the small, silvery, anadromous fish that once migrated up Maine’s streams each spring by the hundreds of millions. For the first time in 50 years, they returned ...

During a trip to Bar Harbor in the mid ’90s, Cheryl Staples spotted a chunk of sea glass shining like a sapphire on the beach. She dug it out, dusted it off, and held it up to the sun. The smoothed ...

On a recent afternoon in Woolwich, three generations of Hennins guided a visitor across the grounds of the Shelter Institute, offering a nickel tour of the wooded 68-acre campus where tens of ...

One of the strangest parts about being famous in the particular way that Nirav Shah is famous is that strangers often approach him and burst into tears. That and the Diet Cokes, cans of which get tied ...

Just after 4 a.m., still more than two hours before sunrise, 63-year-old Barry Dana, former chief of the Penobscot Nation, pulled into an empty Appalachian Trail parking lot in Monson, at the southern ...

Trail runners start atop York’s Mount Agamenticus, southern Maine’s highest point, at 692 feet. But don’t let the three-digit elevation fool you! Runners head down, then back up, then down, then up a ...

If anyone could appreciate a good road, it was Adrian Brochu, who kept motorcycles stashed in Florida and Nevada so he could ride in warm weather year-round. He also appreciated the Maine woods and ...

In 2006, Rebekah Anderson opened the Lakeshore House inn and pub in Monson, even though the town had clearly seen better days. Much of the small downtown that hugs state Route 15 was vacant, and the ...

It was the middle of October and Cobbosseecontee Lake was perfectly still, a mirror reflecting a sky thick with billowing clouds. Em Russell was standing on the stern of a little motorboat, wearing ...