The University of Southern Maine’s dedication to the arts and humanities is showcased in its new purpose-built music building. Sponsored University of Southern Maine's Osher School of Music For 70 ...

When the operators of Harris Dam send thousands of cubic feet of water downstream, the river, otherwise sedate and cobble strewn, springs to life.

On the state Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry website, an interactive map tracks every bit of conserved land across all of Maine. Check only the box for federally protected lands, ...

Erin Soucy graduated with a bachelor’s degree in nursing from UMFK in 1995. She went on to work at Northern Maine Medical Center and, in 1998, had the chance to teach a group of clinical students as ...

The hegemony of the lobster roll, the unassailable position of Maine’s most iconic food, has an unfortunate side effect: another classic seafood sandwich, the sort that’s graced with fried fish, is ...

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 ...

Sears Island is a wooded, egg-shaped piece of land in Penobscot Bay, about the size of New York City’s Central Park. Connected to the mainland via causeway, the island could provide commercial access ...

When Kerry and Chris Stetson bought their Yarmouth home, in 2009, they looked forward to planting a big vegetable garden in the backyard. They rototilled a 90-by-30-foot patch, added manure from their ...

I remember the first time I went to an old-fashioned soda fountain as a kid. I was maybe 12 or 13, and new owners had just reopened a 1920s drugstore not far from where my family lived, in Pittsburgh.

Rounding the bend at the edge of Robin and David Robinson’s corner Brunswick lot, passersby encounter a stone “harvest maiden” in a crown of fresh flowers, surrounded by a low boxwood hedge. At her ...

In August 1907, the Boston and Maine Railroad offered discounted tickets of $2 apiece for trips from North Station to what is now Old Orchard Beach. The town’s fine oceanfront hotels, decorated with ...

Throughout the town of Old Orchard Beach, cartoonishly anthropomorphic birdhouses peek out from behind branches or hang willy-nilly from roadside trunks. Some have jagged strips of wood for faces, ...