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 ...

The neoclassical face of the Time and Temperature Building rises 146 feet over downtown Portland’s Monument Square. Through the building’s entry on Congress Street and past the empty storefronts of a ...

When I first moved to Maine, nearly 15 years ago, The Good Table was one of the first places my in-laws took me to eat. They’d settled in Cape Elizabeth in 1980, four years before father-daughter ...

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 ...

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 ...

Frank Kilburn was a professor of natural history and ornithology at the Washington State Normal School — what’s now the University of Maine at Machias — for 25 years. After he retired, in 1949, he set ...

John Meader runs a company called Northern Stars Planetarium, traveling around the midcoast and central Maine with an inflatable-dome star theater, for educational programming at schools, public ...

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 the 1980s, Kevin Slater was working for the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School as a winter-program director and needed to hire a leader for a backcountry-skiing course supported by two dog teams ...

It’s early evening, the sun is low in the sky, and I’m gazing out the window of a floatplane, with bush pilot Josh Brown’s voice ringing tinny in my headset. Only seconds ago, he’d apologized for the ...

Crow Island is a scrap of an island, three acres tucked into the farthest reaches of Middle Bay, not a half mile off the Brunswick peninsula called Simpson’s Point. To the swimmers who gather at the ...