On the centennial of Maine’s original summer colony, Down East asked Edith Wheeler, the 93-year-old granddaughter of the ...

Some 700 blankets fill a timber-frame barn attached to her 18th-century York farmhouse.

The range of their approaches is striking — from island cottages with cobbled-together utility systems to a fully electric ...

A little over 30 years ago, Howard Hardy visited a cousin who was chopping wood with an axe he said was made in Oakland. Intrigued, Hardy began keeping an eye out for other locally crafted cutting ...

A chorus of a few dozen clucking, crowing chickens, housed in wood-and-mesh-metal pounds, constantly echoes through Jennica Harris’s garage, in Chesterville, a rural town near Farmington. The garage ...

Mainers (not to mention the entire art world) had already come to know the immense talent of Andrew Wyeth, but they were only just making the acquaintance of Andrew’s 21-year-old son, Jamie, when ...

Nine steps to a healthy and lush organically grown lawn. Tiny houses. Tiny trees. Homegrown seedlings. Fancy concrete. Here are our 2015 editors' choices for the Best of Maine Home and Garden.

Martha White — granddaughter of E.B. — has become the kind of literary executor every author wishes they could have.

The mysterious fish faces a troubling future from overfishing to environmental factors.