A little over 30 years ago, Howard Hardy visited a cousin who was chopping wood with an axe he said was made in Oakland. Intrigued, Hardy began keeping an eye out for other locally crafted cutting ...

When I was a child, Squirrel Island was another name for heaven, with the blue sky overhead and the blue sea all around it. From 1878, when I was an infant of six months, until 1905, when I was ...

Mainers (not to mention the entire art world) had already come to know the immense talent of Andrew Wyeth, but they were only just making the acquaintance of Andrew’s 21-year-old son, Jamie, when ...

Martha White — granddaughter of E.B. — has become the kind of literary executor every author wishes they could have.

Nine steps to a healthy and lush organically grown lawn. Tiny houses. Tiny trees. Homegrown seedlings. Fancy concrete. Here are our 2015 editors' choices for the Best of Maine Home and Garden.

A longtime champion of local artisans and makers, Martha Stewart reveals her top product picks from around the state.

Ellsworth native Zac Smith-Hess is an entomologist and educator who taught at schools, zoos, and aquariums around the country before joining the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens staff in 2022. There, ...