One of Maine’s signature charms is the classic, rambling inns perched like grand dames on the rocky coastline. One of the originals, the Asticou Inn, was built at the head of Northeast Harbor in 1883.

Erika Wibby Mitchell has opened Main Street Mercantile in a former gallery space.

From a distance, Jennifer Judd-McGee’s designs look like intricate drawings sketched with a fine-point pen. One piece depicts stick-thin trees on a green background. In […]

Salt air fused with a woody scent wafting from the cedar planking of the Alice E. as Captain Karl Brunner motored the Friendship sloop away from the dock.

Thirty five years ago, 11 Mount Desert Island area artisans came together with one simple goal. “The main mission was to provide a space for […]

A history of Mount Desert Island’s schools and the long-lost Mount Desert village of Sound are the focus of a new permanent exhibit at the […]

Lisa Hall’s sea glass jewelry business was born from a childhood of collecting. “I grew up on Little Cranberry [Island] in the summers and always […]

In a 19th-century shingled building, removed from the bustle of Bar Harbor, Pamelia Markwood opens the front door and welcomes visitors into The Naturalist’s Notebook.