Nowadays, baked beans come from a can, but in olden days, they more often came from a hole in the ground. One of many culinary practices that early New Englanders cribbed from Native Americans was the ...

For 172 years, Hancock Lumber has been carefully cultivating eastern white pine, ensuring that Maine’s signature resource remains vibrant for future generations. Forget lobster — no Maine natural ...

On a recent morning on his neighbor’s Pownal farm, Chris Lombard was teaching three students how to get his rescue Andalusian horse, Tally, to trot. The students took turns holding a long rope ...

Ellen Jackson lives on a busy road in Farmingdale, but her home seems to float above the din, tucked behind a curtain of lilac, mock orange, and sour-cherry blossoms. Like many first-time visitors, I ...

Twenty minutes before the show was slated to begin, the lobby at Belfast’s public library was already thrumming with excited kids. One little girl, in a pink dress and sparkly ruby slippers, bent low ...

When I drove to Orr’s Island to fetch the Fishouse on a chilly November morning in 2003, it sat exactly as Lawrence Sargent Hall had left it when he died 10 years earlier. His desk, topped with what I ...

Editor at large Kathleen Fleury on resettling in Maine — and why you too should take the leap. From the June 2017 issue of Down East magazine. Illustration by ...

Growing up in Maine’s capital in the ’80s and ’90s, Justin Fecteau thought of Water Street, the heart of downtown Augusta, as a museum that was always closed. “It was my parents and grandparents ...

Good Shepherd Food Bank, Maine’s largest hunger-relief organization, was in the midst of creating its five-pillar strategic plan when Heather Paquette took on the role of leading the organization. “A ...

According to Dave Copp, May 10, 1968 was “the best day I ever had in my life.” He was 12 years old, and a bottle collector from Union named Bob Heath had hired him and a friend to dig in cellar holes ...

The sun is still groggy as some 212 white-tailed deer start milling around Richard McMahon’s backyard. It’s January, the middle of a cold snap, and they’re hungry. Lucky for them, Brownville’s Food ...

Previously, a scarlet macaw — named Scarlett, no surprise — was a sort of mascot for a Bangor-area pet store. Fifteen years ago, when the shop owners had gotten older and decided to get out of the ...