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

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...

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.

A hard-shell lobster cooked in this manner is just as dry and chewy as it sounds.

Four years ago, having just moved to my new home in Lubec, I went to work immediately on a vision I had nurtured for some time: Let’s stage a marathon here.

I imagine large pots of baked pork and beans swaddled in towels or old worn quilts to keep them warm...