Maria Oliveira grew up in Brazil before moving to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she dreamed of a career in medicine. When she learned of the University of Maine at Farmington’s Johnson Scholars ...

By Sara Anne Donnelly Photos by Michael D. Wilson From our July 2025 issue It was a few minutes before showtime on Number One Pond, in Sanford, last summer. The evening sun, thinly veiled by clouds, ...

Donelon and Jean are well-known in local gardening circles for their Plants for Peace sale, which marked its 38th, and final, anniversary last year. For one hour on one day every spring, they sold ...

In 2023, Cameron and Kidder moved to a farmhouse on 98 acres fronting Litchfield’s Mill Pond. The previous owners ran a wildlife-rehabilitation center there, and Cameron set up a workshop in the ...

Bath Clementine comes from a long line of old-house lovers. Her grandparents, and later her parents, owned Georgetown’s 1904 Grey Havens Inn, where she lived for part of her childhood. When she and J ...