Leigh I. Saufley served as a justice on the Maine courts for 30 years, the last 18 as Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. But in 2020, she willingly left what she described as the best ...
Portlander Mimi Olins’s creamy, free-form stoneware is a perfect foil for menu items at the city’s swanky Twelve restaurant and James Beard Award–winning Zu Bakery (owned by her husband, Barak) — and ...
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On the state Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry website, an interactive map tracks every bit of conserved land across all of Maine. Check only the box for federally protected lands, ...
Maine’s most influential architects since the early 19th century designed buildings that expressed the priorities and aspirations of their generation. But their projects were not merely of the moment.
A spate of attacks by rabid animals has residents of Bath and nearby towns on high alert — and choosing sides in an escalating fracas. Norman Kenney, Bath’s 89-year-old retired fire chief, walks with ...
I’m walking across the top of the historic Mill Pond dam, in Whiting village, admiring the beauty of the water rushing below, when Jacob van de Sande tells me the nearly 200-year-old stone structure ...
One summer morning in 1992, Henry Perkins had finished milking his herd of 80 Dutch Belted cows and was on to other chores when a pickup truck pulled up to his Albion farm. The man who stepped out ...
In 1922, John D. Rockefeller Jr. revealed himself to be something of a busybody. “My dear Mr. Ford,” the financier and philanthropist wrote to his neighbor Edsel, shortly after visiting the 80-acre ...
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced Kevin Gillespie to temporarily shutter the five restaurants he owns in Atlanta, he was left with plenty of time to think. The award-winning chef and his wife, Valerie ...
When Kerry and Chris Stetson bought their Yarmouth home, in 2009, they looked forward to planting a big vegetable garden in the backyard. They rototilled a 90-by-30-foot patch, added manure from their ...
A driver on Route 113, entering Evans Notch, might be forgiven for supposing the neat-as-a-pin brick Federal set back from the road just east of the New Hampshire border was a cute little post office ...
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