Who says this is the off-season? Food fests, concerts, snow sports, and more are going on across Maine all through the colder ...

The American Idol contestant has loved this Cumberland park since childhood.

A new book paints a lively picture of the Sugarloafers who banded together to carve out a town of their own in the heart of ...

Coffin made his first contribution to this magazine in 1955, with an ode to Maine winters that was to be the first in a series. But as the magazine was about to go to press, Coffin, driving to ...

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 ...

Portlander Mimi Olins’s creamy, free-form stoneware is a perfect foil for menu items at the city’s swanky Twelve restaurant and James Beard Award–winning Zu Bakery (owned by her husband, Barak) — and ...

In 1831, Boston developer Samuel Batchelder stood on a bluff overlooking the Saco River’s roaring falls, in what is now ...

This time of year, candy-colored glass ornaments grace Judy Minaudo's 1751 home, while walls and woodwork in splashy colors and patterns dazzle year-round.

If you know nothing else about Hanukkah, you likely know about the oil: Some 2,200 years ago, in Jerusalem, Jewish rebels kicked Greek-Syrian invaders out of an important temple and lit a menorah ...

When Judy Minaudo was growing up in suburban Cleveland in the ’60s, her grandmother’s house was one of the grooviest spots around. At Christmastime, a futuristic aluminum tree bedecked with pink and ...

Ragged Coast Chocolates started 18 years ago in Kate Shaffer’s home kitchen on remote Isle au Haut. Now, her sweet little shop is nestled in downtown Westbrook, where, among elegant truffles and gooey ...