Lee Kantar has been compiling copious data about both moose and winter ticks in hopes of saving the former from the latter.

Well into his 80s, he was still living the good life on his Harborside farm, building stone walls on an herbal-tea breakfast ...

My Final Days on the Maine Coast Diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, a writer meditates on life, death, and beauty from his small seaside cottage down east.

How Much Longer Will the Threat of Industrialization Loom Over Sears Island? For activists trying to save Sears from development, the clock is ticking.

The Upstream Battle to Preserve Maine’s Lucrative Elver Fishery Some observers suspect that the number of baby eels migrating up Maine rivers is declining. Passamaquoddy fishermen have taken ...

For more than 40 years, the Wabanaki tribes in Maine have had to play by different rules than other indigenous groups across the country.

The ancient Christian Celts ­believed in the existence of supernatural spaces between heaven and earth — “thin places,” they called them, where the distance between the two realms, between the sacred ...

Not all bark is created equal, 82-year-old Butch Phillips says, and he should know. For more than 30 years, Phillips, a member of the Penobscot Nation who grew up on Indian Island, has been making ...

First printed in American Girl magazine, the 90-year-old essay conjures the timeless pleasures of a yuletide gathering in rural Maine.

Dining alfresco is a rite of summer — and in the pandemic era, it offers some added peace of mind. From the seaside to the lakeshore to the city, follow the links below to find the best Maine ...

Philosopher Daniel Dennett On the Illusion of Consciousness The cognitive scientist has written stacks of influential books, but his new one is in an unfamiliar genre: memoir. We visited him on ...