Readfield taps into history for Heritage Days

Historic buildings, pioneering water systems, kickball, local artisans celebrated at town's annual community gathering.

‘No Meat Required’ looks at future of vegetarianism through its history

As vegetarian food options become more mainstream, author Alicia Kennedy sees a need to reinforce the societal arguments for plant-based eating.

Commentary: How we got endless summer breaks from school – and what we can do about it

Our kids went to school in the summer when the nation was young. With the right approach – and the right people to teach them – they can do so again.

Historian Randall Bennett to give presentation on Hastings Homestead

Commentary: Barbie is more than a longtime feminist flashpoint

Together, in the 1960s and ’70s, we weathered the societal upheavals that roiled women’s lives.

Commentary: What makes me a patriot and not a nationalist

True patriotism acknowledges mistakes in an effort to improve, so that one’s country can be the best it can be.

The Maine Millennial: You think queerness is a fad? Think again.

I’m more and more proud of the bravery and grit of my lesbian grandmothers.

Commentary: Remembering – and retelling – my father’s account of Buchenwald in 1945

How can we ensure that future generations respect and honor Holocaust survivors’ and witnesses’ memories?

Maine Voices: Fifty-five years after Martin Luther King’s assassination, his teachings still ring true

Tyre Nichols’ brutal beating death in Memphis vindicates Dr. King’s 1964 warning about the risks to the lives of Black people at the hands of police.

Maine Voices: Putin’s war in Ukraine requires us to maintain a difficult balance

We must continue to fight and to resist domination, at the same time that we keep seeking an alternative to arms and to annihilating one another.