Many newcomers are able to pay big bucks to find the serenity offered by an isolated enclave.

“I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good any where else.”

—E.B. White

John and Sara will move to Leeds, on the mainland near Augusta. “We want to build a house on 100 acres we’ve bought, and do more with livestock,” John said, a bit apologetically.

You’re not going to be able to tell them in three weeks it’s going to be rainy outside your house, but you might be able to tell them … it’s going to be above average in the East.

“To be able to live someplace you love and to be able to do the work you love—that’s amazing.”

—Elaine Abbott

Robin Alden, a former commissioner of the state’s Department of Marine Resources (DMR) and current director of the Stonington-based Penobscot East Resource Center (PERC), has been named a White House champion of change for her work on sustainable seafood issues.

Community cookbooks like this one open a window into community life.

As he kept trying and failing to get her re-started, the boat drifted quickly, with the incoming tide, till it banged up against the deck of room 4

Coral reefs make up less than 1 percent of the ocean floor, yet they provide shelter for as much as a quarter of sea life.