The news of my mother’s passing stunned me like a shot to my chest. My breath was stolen from my lungs and a lump had formed like a rock in the base of my throat.

There’s been a lot of buzz about the possibility that Acadia will welcome more than three million visitors in 2016, its centennial year—which would be a leap of 20 percent from just two years ago, and an all-time record for the park. This may well be a temporary spike...

You won’t hear too many Mainers complain about this summer’s weather. It’s been hot, sunny and dry.

This is the second of a three-part series recollecting the look and feel of Portland in the 1960s, '70s and '80s by a Maine writer who spent his youth there.

In the 1970s, Portland grew up.

Out of my sight on the west side of the island, truly heroic efforts by dozens of area firemen, the Coast Guard and state forest rangers had achieved what had seemed impossible.

The reason that the Gulf Stream flows is due primarily to the fact that sea surface is a couple of feet higher on its right than on its left...

We see Lucy working through defenses like rationalization and denial to finally come to an understanding of love as complex.

American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good

By Colin Woodard

New York: Viking, 2016

It's quiet, just me, a server and the innkeeper, until the night staff appears to start their extensive dinner prep.