On a recent Saturday at the Little Jubba Central Maine Agrarian Commons, Ali Hamsa and Muhidin Libah took a break from building a fence around a goat pasture to share a laugh at the orneriest kid in ...

Mysterious pyramids rise up along the Fore River in South Portland. On sunny days, they glitter white and opaque, as inscrutable as alien spaceships brought to Earth. In rain, they’re covered by ...

In a state where Mexico is less than an hour’s drive north of Norway, with Paris wedged in between, it’s easy to wonder why towns are called what they are. John McDonald and Marion Fearing’s ...

Sebago Lake, where her family went on day trips. “I loved how calming it was to be there.” This winter, she found herself idly surfing Sebago-area Airbnbs. ("I’m constantly planning vacations in my ...

Hank Morton’s great-grandparents, Henry and Lucinda Morton, started making sleds by hand in their Oxford Hills home in 1861 — gorgeous rides with gracefully curved wooden runners, their decks ...

On a recent Saturday evening, downtown Lisbon Falls’s streets were quiet. Just about everyone, it seemed, was inside Flux, the restaurant run by brothers and first-time restaurateurs Jason and Tyson ...

12 excursions all across the state, from hockey games to indie theaters to dogsled races. Winter won’t be the off-season anymore! If you are on a desktop, you’ll need to download the portal app to ...

On the banks of the York River stands what is possibly Maine’s oldest home: a circa 1707 garrison constructed with heavy logs that were dovetailed at the joints to create a sturdy, weatherproof ...

If there’s one thing that makes New England stand out among other outdoorsy regions of the United States, it’s the history. All across Maine, yes, but also Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, ...

When a network of timber-company roads started spidering out across Maine’s north woods in the 1970s and ’80s, it was a game-changer for recreationists: millions of prohibitively remote acres were ...

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 ...

Throughout the town of Old Orchard Beach, cartoonishly anthropomorphic birdhouses peek out from behind branches or hang willy-nilly from roadside trunks. Some have jagged strips of wood for faces, ...