The idea for a celebration of Maine's famous crustacean in the inland city began as an April Fools’ Day gag in 2021.
Our Towns
The Maine State Historian has many favorite spots, but Vaughan Woods & Historic Homestead is always near the top of his list.
And the Nature Conservancy says it’s providing valuable lessons to other school districts across the state.
The children’s-book illustrator finds inspiration at Grafton Notch State Park.
House-call doctors might be a thing of the past, but house-call EMTs have started helping to fill the void, especially in underserved communities.
In rural pockets across the state, residents are finding community in rehabbed antique structures (and bringing back contra dancing).
Small-town papers aren’t nearly as numerous as they once were, but the few survivors are as vital to their communities as ever.
When the Telling Room executive director needs to quiet her mind, she heads to the sun-drenched atrium of the Portland Public Library.
Instead, years of ownership issues, deteriorating infrastructure, and unrealized ambitions have reduced Big Moose to a shadow of its former self. Can anyone give the old resort a much-needed lift?
When she's not racing solo around the world, she enjoys mornings on her parents' dock on Boothbay's Back River.
The Rwandan-American singer on Waynflete’s Joan Sayward Franklin ’46 Theater.
Almost 90 years ago, with prose as crisp as a cold winter night and sentiment as sweet as steamy apple pudding, the Pulitzer-winning writer Robert P. Tristram Coffin conjured the timeless pleasures of a yuletide gathering in rural Maine.
