The Bowdoin International Music Festival is one of the world’s premier music institutes. Founded in 1964, the Festival engages exceptional students and enthusiastic audiences through world-class ...

“We’re trying to take a really beautiful space and use it as our family needs it, versus being so careful about it,” Heather Jackson says, referring to the “indestructible” ...

The jewel tones of Joseph Webster’s glassware are so vivid they catch the eye from across a room. The hues fade from top to bottom, with a thin, dark scribble whorled throughout. The individually ...

Maine’s Sea Grant program, responsible for delivering practical scientific know-how to fishing communities, now faces an existential political threat. As traditional fisheries stare down ...

I’m walking across the top of the historic Mill Pond dam, in Whiting village, admiring the beauty of the water rushing below, when Jacob van de Sande tells me the nearly 200-year-old stone structure ...

Has anyone described Maine’s most iconic mammal more memorably than Henry David Thoreau in The Maine Woods? “Singularly grotesque and awkward to look at,” he wrote. “They made me think of great ...

Jerry Elwell, Sherman Station’s best-known citizen, sits atop a stool in her home on the edge of the North Woods, 80 miles north of Bangor. As she chats, a commotion erupts in the other room and ...

One of the strangest parts about being famous in the particular way that Nirav Shah is famous is that strangers often approach him and burst into tears. That and the Diet Cokes, cans of which get tied ...

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, ...

Readers tell similar stories about their first encounters with the book. Many seemed to have found it at health-food stores, and many say they read it in a single sitting. Some were moved to write the ...

One summer morning in 1992, Henry Perkins had finished milking his herd of 80 Dutch Belted cows and was on to other chores when a pickup truck pulled up to his Albion farm. The man who stepped out ...

Last year was a good one for alewives, the small, silvery, anadromous fish that once migrated up Maine’s streams each spring by the hundreds of millions. For the first time in 50 years, they returned ...