Brian Kevin

Coinciding with Maine Needham Day on the last Saturday in September, the event celebrates Maine's favorite potato candy.

The restaurant’s menu echoes the weekday breakfasts and Sunday brunches that its proprietors formerly ran at the first location of Terlingua.

Newly friendly to cyclists, the Appalachian Mountain Club’s 330 miles of old logging roads are unpaved, with good intentions.

A community anchor and one of the highest-aiming restaurants north of Bangor, it’s well worth a visit the next time you’re in the County.

Located in South Berwick, the downtown space lets him flex and expand on everything he loves about his primo place.

Owner Donita Ayotte is selling some 4,000 of the micro hand pies a week at Northern Maine Kolache Co. in Van Buren, Maine.

The menu, like the Union restaurant’s decor, leans into what Alsatians would call gemütlichkeit: hominess, comfort.

Simplicity is the mantra at this hyper-local (and gratuity-free) fine-dining spot.

Rockport Marine owner Taylor Allen spent 12 years painstakingly restoring the William Underwood, a 78-year-old sardine carrier.

When children’s-book author Peter Brown wants an escape, he makes for the La Verna Preserve at the edge of Muscongus Bay.

They’re not the stuff of epic road trips — in fact, none are more than a few miles long. Here are a few of our favorite back roads.

Sooner or later, even the stateliest mansions must face the wrecking ball. From the September 2022 issue of Down East magazine.

Caitlin Shetterly, Emily Henry, and William Dameron each have their own takes.

When is an island not an island? Twice a day, in this quiet corner of Cobscook Bay.

Maine’s towering role in American art owes, in part, to enclaves of artists gathering in out-of-the-way places. How’s the tradition holding up?

Swan’s Island is dry island. That doesn’t stop the proprietors and patrons of Daint’s Place from having more fun than should be legal anywhere.

As alewives return to their historical migration routes, their restored runs are captivating photographers and other wildlife watchers.

The yak imprinted on his owners after they bottle-fed him to keep him alive.

When he thinks of particularly significant Maine places, the artist’s mind goes to an iconic portage in the Penobscot watershed.

The Oscar-nominated director finds the essence of community at the Rockport post office.