Fogtown Brewing Company, in Ellsworth, worked with Shimmerwood Beverages to jump on two bandwagons at once, riding both the spiked-seltzer and the CBD crazes. Shimmer Seltzer, a CBD-infused seltzer ...

The Harpswell Anchor, a handsome little 32-page monthly tabloid newspaper, got its start in 1998, when lobsterman Bob Anderson found himself looking for a career change. Already a writer, Anderson ...

Tom Nelson remembers when, in the mid-1960s, his Uncle Bus became the first snowmobile owner in the Piscataquis County town of Dover-Foxcroft. “You wouldn’t have to twist my arm too hard to go up and ...

What makes a neighborhood restaurant click? Well, for starters, it ought to be filled with neighbors. That sure seemed to be the case when my wife and I stopped into Linden + Front, in Bath, on a ...

In a brief chapter of Moby-Dick, Ishmael and his crewmates encounter flip aboard a passing whaler, off the coast of Patagonia. “Flip? Did I say we had flip?” he gushes. “Yes, and we flipped it at the ...

Soon after I moved to Kennebunkport, in 2009, I got a job working at Wink’s, a mom-and-pop sandwich shop. The store opened at 5 a.m., which made it the preferred morning hangout for the town’s ...

First-time visitors to Vesta might note the bubbly elliptical pizzas and plates of pecorino-studded rigatoni on their neighbors’ tables and figure they’re in for homey trattoria fare. Then again, they ...

The exterior of Karen and Ford Reiche’s waterfront home, in Freeport, riffs on an 1899 Shingle-style Islesboro cottage designed by famed architect Fred Savage. But the interior is straight out of ...

[C]aptain Lemuel Moody was one of Munjoy Hill’s first prospectors. At the turn of the 19th century, the aging Moody quit his work as a sea captain after he was kidnapped and held briefly by pirates, ...

Capturing the Maine coast at night during the beginning of Milky Way season is a surreal and magnificent experience. We still have a few spots available in our workshop offerings for 2019 – come join ...

[dropcap letter=”O”]ne of the first roadside landmarks after crossing into Maine on I-95 is a big, yellow moose-crossing sign — though the location suggests that it’s there more to delight tourists ...

For a soak with floral fragrance, try rose-geranium soap from SoulShine Soap Company, a line of organic palm-oil soaps made by hand in Michelle Byram’s Hampden kitchen. To go fragrance-free, try ...