Over the past three years, the Libra Foundation has poured more than $10 million into rescuing a dying town. Will it be the spark that ignites a region-wide revival?
Our Towns
A speck of a village at the northernmost tip of Maine, Estcourt Station is (sometimes literally) the place you can’t get to from here.
After 50 years, the exuberant ringleader of a Wells summer tradition is hanging up his hat.
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard on his company’s role in undamming the Kennebec River.
Can a used-up gravel pit become a bustling town center?
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
For author Ron Currie, childhood summers on McGrath Pond are the stuff of memories— wistful, fickle, and poignant.
Pond ponderer Jennifer Finney Boylan offers a local’s tour of the Belgrade Lakes — and a heartfelt ode to living where others vacation.
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
John Olson, a World War II veteran and Maine-art-lore inheritor, spent more than nine decades on the water.
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.