Looking back, Maine Public Radio host Jennifer Rooks recalls a series of connections that led her to settle in Maine — and one improbably lucky break that made it possible. Growing up in Atlanta, she ...

Okay, so you might be a fitness nut who heads out on a vigorous hike for the sheer aerobic pleasure of it. Or one of those crunchy granolas who believes that just being out in nature is its own reward ...

One of my favorite aspects of making custom hats is digging into people’s self-expression and what they want to portray with their hat. Madness is inherent to the style of hat that I’m making. Crazy ...

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 ...

In the spring of 2022, Morrill Worcester and his sons, Rob and Mike, went on Fox News to, for the first time, publicly reveal plans they had hatched for a swath of remote spruce-fir forest their ...

March 8, 1945, started as a routine day for Dean Yeaton. His father’s remote logging camp on the edge of western Maine’s Spencer Lake had no electricity and no running water. In the morning, the ...

A low-slung, green-roofed building on Wilton’s main drag, W.S. Wells & Son was likely the country’s first — and is now perhaps its only — fiddlehead processing plant. Its owner, 57-year-old Butch ...

Larry Beals, a Boston-based real estate developer, initially wanted to buy a second home in Vermont to be close to a ski area, and in 1986, he and his wife, Karen, purchased a 100-acre 1800’s Vermont ...

Seventy-five years ago, the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and essayist Robert P. Tristram Coffin penned a timeless tribute to one of Maine’s simplest pleasures. Its influence would reverberate through ...

With its fast-food joints and big-box stores, the bustling stretch of Route 302 near Sebago Lake probably isn’t where you’re expecting to encounter a refined farm-to-table dining experience. Stepping ...

In one sense, Maria Girouard admits, this winter was a counterintuitive time to open Dawnland Handmade Creations, a gift shop in downtown Old Town, featuring work by artists and makers from the four ...