44 North Coffee founders Melissa Raftery and Megan Dewey

44 North Coffee, which has been luring coffee-lovers near and far with its house-roasted Fair Trade/organic beans, this past summer opened a coffeehouse in downtown […]

Strong Brewing

Demand for pints and growlers of fresh, locally produced draft beer spurred Strong Brewing Co. to add a beer garden and pub in time for […]

If you want to grow a beautiful flower garden, you must order several subscriptions to The Ellsworth American print edition. Avid gardener Letha Wood, who […]

No vacation is complete without a spa treatment or two. Visitors to Mount Desert Island have a luxury spa at the Bar Harbor Inn Spa […]

How the newly opened Boat Yard Antiques got started almost sounds like a joke. A man goes to a boatyard for a part and leaves […]

Devoted fans of Karen’s Café, formerly located at the closed Mr. Paperback, have already heard the news. Now it’s time for the rest of Ellsworth […]

Did you know that in the Victorian era families would have portraits taken with their recently deceased children? Photographers would prop up the dead children […]

Tina Sheer, aka Timber Tina, owner of the Great Maine Lumberjack Show in Trenton, starred in National Geographic Channel’s 2013 season of “Ultimate Survival Alaska.”

Bartlett Winery and Spirits of Maine Distillery makes a fine rum from organic molasses sourced in South America.