Thirty years in, she says collecting beach treasures still buoys her.
The Kansas native, and owner of Meri Meri party supplies, says her heart is in Castine, where she has summered since 1994.
More than 500 antique clothes irons are on display at his B&B, the Old Iron Inn.
The range of their approaches is striking — from island cottages with cobbled-together utility systems to a fully electric house of the future
Some 700 blankets fill a timber-frame barn attached to her 18th-century York farmhouse.
Residents of Blueberry Fields Cooperative leveraged a new law (and raised $26 million) to buy the land beneath their homes.
Brian Hughes’s new and improved versions of an age-old tool make tending the soil a cinch.
But recently, he’s begun selling off some of his 18,000-piece collection to make room for another passion: lobster buoys.
With a collection of more than 300 locally crafted axes and scythes, he's taken a whack at reconstructing the town's manufacturing history.
The “fluffy butt hut" has window boxes, curtains, wallpaper, and a chandelier.
Known as the nation’s oldest chandlery and Maine’s longest-running retail operation, S.L. Wadsworth & Son hardware store still supplies the necessities to the city’s homeowners and boat owners.
How eight intrepid homeowners live off-grid in Maine, photographer Lynn Karlin's lush still lifes, Maine collectors and their treasures, and more.