For many years during the 19th century, the simple, self-sufficient Shakers of Sabbathday Lake, Maine, mingled happily with the luxury-loving guests and the owners of the Poland Spring Hotel. It must have been the water. Both the Shakers and the ...

Had it not been for his May Day party with a giant Maypole, Thomas Morton might have established a New England colony more tolerant, easygoing and fun than his dour Puritan neighbors created at Plymouth Plantation. Morton was a well-educated, ...

Marsden Hartley called himself ‘the artist of Maine.' He was a renowned Modernist artist who painted manly, rugged scenes of fishermen, mountains and rocky seashores. But at a time when he considered abandoning art, it was an eccentric New Age ...