Look at enough books of Maine photography, and you start to recognize familiar elements in all of them...

In her new book, "Portrait of a Maine Island," Mount Desert photographer Sarah C. Butler charts a course through the internal life of Mount Desert Island and its colorful inhabitants...

When playwright and author Thornton Wilde wrote the play "Our Town" about the seemingly unremarkable lives of ordinary people living in an ordinary small town in America, it struck a deep and resonant chord with the public...