The range of their approaches is striking — from island cottages with cobbled-together utility systems to a fully electric ...

With a collection of more than 300 locally crafted tools, Howard Hardy is taken a whack at reconstructing the town's ...

On the centennial of Maine’s original summer colony, Down East asked Edith Wheeler, the 93-year-old granddaughter of the ...

Some 700 blankets fill a timber-frame barn attached to her 18th-century York farmhouse.

In 1632, having set sail from England, William Wadsworth stepped off the Lyon and onto the docks in Boston. He would go on to become a prominent figure in the founding of Hartford, Connecticut, ...

A chorus of a few dozen clucking, crowing chickens, housed in wood-and-mesh-metal pounds, constantly echoes through Jennica Harris’s garage, in Chesterville, a rural town near Farmington. The garage ...

Mainers (not to mention the entire art world) had already come to know the immense talent of Andrew Wyeth, but they were only just making the acquaintance of Andrew’s 21-year-old son, Jamie, when ...

Nine steps to a healthy and lush organically grown lawn. Tiny houses. Tiny trees. Homegrown seedlings. Fancy concrete. Here are our 2015 editors' choices for the Best of Maine Home and Garden.