Some 700 blankets fill a timber-frame barn attached to her 18th-century York farmhouse.

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 ...

In Maine, large swaths of untouched land, coupled with a strong Yankee independent streak, have lured generations of hardy souls to build homes off the grid. Now, rising electricity costs are sparking ...

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 ...

In 1632, having set sail from England, William Wadsworth stepped off the Lyon and onto the docks in Boston. He would go on to become a prominent figure in the founding of Hartford, Connecticut, ...

A chorus of a few dozen clucking, crowing chickens, housed in wood-and-mesh-metal pounds, constantly echoes through Jennica Harris’s garage, in Chesterville, a rural town near Farmington. The garage ...

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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 ...

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.

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

The mysterious fish faces a troubling future from overfishing to environmental factors.