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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The swordfishing captain likes to hike to the cove in Surry’s Morgan Bay at low tide to go clamming. Greenlaw’s sister, Beth, is president of Sea Bags, the Portland-based maker of totes from recycled ...

On Saturday morning, October 21, 1911, a crippled wreck of a schooner, towed by a small power boat, edged its way into Portland Harbor. Patched and stained trysails drooped from her two masts, and ...

Ana Hito came to Vinalhaven last summer with a vision. But when the young, hard-charging restaurateur bucked community expectations, tempers on the island flared. One evening last summer, music ...

Around 1907, an enterprising Ontario farm girl named Florence Nightingale Graham landed in New York City and found work in a shop offering skin creams and treatments. She learned all she could, and ...

When it comes to scenery, the coastal enclave of Camden has an embarrassment of riches — its huddled collection of quaint inns, shops, and restaurants; the footbridge over the Megunticook River that ...

The view from atop Fort Preble takes in Fort Gorges and South Portland’s spark-plug–style Spring Point Ledge Light. During the Civil War, soldiers from the fort chased down and took captive 23 ...

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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 ...