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 ...

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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 historic mills and bridges, hot dogs and fish tacos from food trucks on the mall, the architecture and big old trees and museums on the Bowdoin College campus. Also, the proximity to the fishing ...

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 ...

In an industrial park in South Portland’s Cash Corner neighborhood, wedged between auto-body garages and equipment suppliers, a sign with a rainbow bursting out of a welding helmet marks the entrance ...

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 ...

Tom Nelson remembers when, in the mid-1960s, his Uncle Bus became the first snowmobile owner in the Piscataquis County town of Dover-Foxcroft. “You wouldn’t have to twist my arm too hard to go up and ...

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 ...

For most Portlanders, the morning of February 4, 1845, called for huddling at home around the fire. Dark clouds and swirling winds had fouled a stretch of clear weather, and the thermometer hung close ...

Since its founding in 1983, the nonprofit and its partners have contributed $128 million to Maine conservation, environment, climate, and resilience efforts. In 2011, Maine Farmland Trust acquired a ...