He did not, however, reach for the TV remote and scroll for Netflix or Prime Video. Instead, he hopped in his car and headed to Opera House Video, the 30-year-old rental shop in downtown Belfast.

At Highfields Farm, columns of raised beds corral a leggy late-season bloomer. This year, they are cultivating 120 varieties ...

After running out of salt while cooking on the remote island, Beaudoin made her own and became mesmerized by the process of ...

After a series of closures and years of restoration, the Art Deco playhouse on Mount Desert Island is ready for its next act.

Has anyone described Maine’s most iconic mammal more memorably than Henry David Thoreau in The Maine Woods? “Singularly grotesque and awkward to look at,” he wrote. “They made me think of great ...

Ice cream is a critical element of every Vacationland summer. Strolling down Main Street or sitting on a bench by the shore or relaxing after a hike — are any quintessential Maine experiences not ...

It’s 11:55 on a Monday morning in May, and several people are waiting in cars parked outside Gifford’s Famous Ice Cream stand on the outskirts of Skowhegan. At 11:57, two middle-aged women, an elderly ...

In a humid summer night in central Maine, inside a defunct 1834 gristmill, Erin French is working in an open kitchen, moving purposefully between an elegant Lacanche range and a white double farmhouse ...

The Houlton Band of Maliseets’ administrative headquarters, built to resemble a log cabin, sits on a small tract of tribal land in Aroostook County, just north of where I-95 intersects the Canadian ...

Twenty-five years ago, Mary Jo Kelly set some fruit pies with handwritten price tags on a table at the end of her driveway, on Route 26 in Newry, and screwed a metal cash box into a nearby tree. Soon, ...