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Ckuwaponahkiyik Atkuhkakonol: Wabanaki Storytelling Through Art and Traditions at the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine

The Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine Debuts Its First Wabanaki-Focused Permanent Exhibit

The sinuous new playspace invites hands-on exploration of indigenous heritage in Maine.
Waterville Historical Society president Jay Violette at the counter in the LaVerdiere Apothecary

Waterville’s Apothecary Museum Feels Like an Old-Timey Pharmacy

An archive of 19th-century cure-alls, the LaVerdiere Apothecary is a main attraction of the recently reopened Redington Museum.
Santa Sunday at Sunday River

Maine’s Supersize Holiday Celebrations, By the Numbers

Want to be wowed this holiday season? In Maine, there’s no shortage of groups taking merrymaking to the next level.
Members of the Tree Street Youth community and The Nature Conservancy in Maine staff recently worked together on a stewardship project at the Kennebunk Plains Preserve.

An Innovative Partnership Connects BIPOC Youth With the Maine Outdoors

A new program funded by The Nature Conservancy in Maine and Tree Street Youth gives vulnerable communities the opportunity to experience the healing power of nature.
Amjambo Africa, a free multilingual newspaper in Maine

Amjambo Africa! Builds a Bridge Between New and Longtime Mainers

Now celebrating its fifth year, the free monthly journal publishes in seven languages.
From left to right, Beth Holmberg, Mary Schreiber, and Ellen Whiting, Maine Maritime Museum volunteers

Maine Maritime Museum Benefits from a Sea of Dedicated Volunteers

In 2022, 240 of them logged 18,602 service hours.
The Blanchard family in Acadia National Park

A Family Fulfills Its Goal of Hiking Every Footpath in Acadia

Two years into a family hiking challenge, David Blanchard received a life-changing diagnosis. Instead of letting it sideline him, he picked up the pace.
inside Back Cove Books, in Portland

3 Newcomers Join Maine’s Vibrant Indie-Bookstore Scene

Here’s how they stack up.
Dan Dennett on his Deer Isle dock

Philosopher Daniel Dennett On the Illusion of Consciousness 

The cognitive scientist has written stacks of influential books, but his new one is in an unfamiliar genre: memoir.
Bowdoin College’s Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum located in the new John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies

Check Out the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum’s Cool New Digs

The Bowdoin museum’s new building feels like the polar opposite of its old home.
Illustration of DaPonte String Quartet members walking across bridge made of violin scrolls

After a Tumultuous Few Years, the DaPonte String Quartet Plays a Transition

One of Maine’s most renowned chamber-music ensembles is minus one member and pondering its future.
Jon Wallace on a roof searching for micrometeorites

This Retired Science Teacher Is Perusing Roofs and Gutters for Space Dust

The self-proclaimed “science nerd” from Durham is on the hunt for micrometeorites.
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