Most of Jackson’s perennials are divisions of plants transplanted from her former home in Dixmont or bought at nurseries. Her practice of walking through the beds and shaking the ripe seed pods of ...

By Bhavana Scalia-Bruce Updated on June 6, 2025. With warm weather rolling in, it’s time to plan for some Maine summer fun, so we’ve put together a list of activities across the state for you to check ...

Although he’s Korean, chef Hwansoo Kim has nursed a fascination with Japanese culture ever since he was a kid reading manga comics in Seoul. It was there, in the South Korean capital, that he trained ...

The Maine coast's best invite-only speakeasy, a closer look at the state's oldest and most enigmatic rock, "counting the invisible" on Great Duck Island, and more.

A half century ago, the futurist was tinkering with a wind machine, writing love poems, and literally dancing to his own beat ...

Bonsall stores his seeds in labeled paper envelopes; his bean collection includes varieties like Jimenez beans, from Mexico.. On the top shelf, Bonsall said, were more than 1,100 varieties of peas. On ...

Best of Maine 2021. Once again, we asked Down East readers to cast their votes for Maine’s best everything: burgers to bookstores, museums to marinas, art galleries to architects. plus, we’ve ...

Violent interactions between sharks and humans are exceedingly rare. In 2020, the Florida Museum of Natural History’s International Shark Attack File recorded 96 reports of people bitten by sharks ...

We open on the rotating globe: some brown, a bit of green, but mostly the mottled blue of a single world ocean. Blooming with phytoplankton in its light-filled reaches and sheltering, in its depths, ...

A Former Goop Editor, a Maine Island, Two Cafés, and a Lot of Bad Blood. Ana Hito came to Vinalhaven last summer with a vision. But when the young, hard-charging restaurateur bucked community ...

What Hopkins has been doing during his 50-year career has shifted and evolved, sometimes in dramatic ways. But he is undoubtedly best known for those “Pointy-Pine Treed Islands,” vibrant watercolors ...