Now, he trims about 3,000 sheep every year — almost a quarter of the sheep in Maine, based on the most recent agricultural census. “It’s all word of mouth,” he says. “When people find out you can ...

Growing up in Southwest Harbor, Lia Morris spent her childhood surrounded by boats. It was inevitable. She had a boatyard in her backyard, because her father, Tom Morris, was a boatbuilder and the ...

Ice cream is a critical element of every Vacationland summer. Strolling down Main Street or sitting on a bench by the shore or relaxing after a hike — are any quintessential Maine experiences not ...

When it comes to scenery, the coastal enclave of Camden has an embarrassment of riches — its huddled collection of quaint inns, shops, and restaurants; the footbridge over the Megunticook River that ...

Great Duck Island is a notoriously tough place to land a boat. There’s no dock, just a steep, slippery ramp on the island’s exposed south side, which can only be approached in a Zodiac on a day when ...

On a bright, blustery afternoon last spring, six women rowers gathered next to a shingled equipment shed on Belfast Harbor and began putting on sweatbands and slim, inflatable life jackets. They ...

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, ...

Crow Island is a scrap of an island, three acres tucked into the farthest reaches of Middle Bay, not a half mile off the Brunswick peninsula called Simpson’s Point. To the swimmers who gather at the ...

During Maine’s first two centuries of settlement, hillside farmers who raised sheep fiercely protected their flocks from depredations by wild animals. Cyrus Eaton’s History of Thomaston, Rockland and ...

Lucas St. Clair works very hard to make people forget Roxanne Quimby. As the new face of the plan to create a national park in northern Maine, he has opened once-closed land to hunting and ATVs and ...

Amy Ray sews in her home studio. Last winter, Amy Ray plucked a ’70s jean jacket from a pile of clothes in her Eastport studio and saw a canvas. Her vintage shop was closed for the season, giving Ray, ...

Until chef Suzanne Vizethann showed up, the only thing southern about downtown Camden was the orientation of the traffic jam on summer Sunday afternoons. And since 1942, that stream of cars has been ...