Karl Holmes reflects on his experience of living through the AIDS epidemic and how it’s shaped his experience of COVID-19.

A young woman living in Maine navigates life, spirituality, and acceptance.

A recently married couple living in Portland, Maine reflects on their experience with love and sacrifice.

Chronic conditions affect about 50 million adults in the United States, and they can make even the most basic daily tasks impossible. For one retired woman, living with chronic pain has been a huge mental burden in addition to a physical one. On the bright side, she doesn't have to carry that burden all by herself. NOTE: This piece deals with the topics of suicide and mental / physical illness.

In Fall 2019, Central Maine Community College debuted its esports program—one of the first in Maine. Jayden Garrison, a varsity athlete on CMCC’s League of Legends team, is learning just what it’ll take to fulfill his dream of playing video games for a living. NOTE: This audio piece contains profanity.

Mostly white communities retell legends and folklore about Native Americans all over the country - all the time - including in Biddeford, Maine. But these stories about Native Americans are not traditional Native American stories. John Bear Mitchell and Carol Dana are traditional native storytellers from the Penobscot Nation. They talk about storytelling in their communities and why traditional native stories are stories that can only be evoked by a people who have actually lived that history.

Bill Àjà never thought he could draw. It took a rapid decline in his vision - and a relocation to an independent living facility - to discover an ability, and a source of joy, that he'd had all along.

Homesteading means always being at home, says Jim Cornish, who teaches students how to live off the land at his farm, Stone Soup Institute. A past student, Jeremy Kasten, draws on his experience with Jim as he and his family prepare for their second season growing vegetables and raising animals.

In need of advanced medical care, Carmen and Lupita Andrade Solis left their homeland in Veracruz, Mexico to embark on a life in the U.S. Sixteen years later they are still one of few pairs of conjoined twins in the world, and, at the age of eighteen, are beginning to consider how to live independently from their family. The girls dream of going to veterinary school and of returning to Mexico to see their relatives, but face the sobering limitations and instability of their current immigrant status.

In the past year, the rural town of Monson has been in transition. A non profit organization has invested millions of dollars into the economically struggling town in the hopes of attracting artists to work and live. The townspeople of Monson share their opinions on what all this change means for the town, and what could possibly come next.

The Mere Point Oyster Company wants to lease 40 acres in Maquoit Bay, but some people in the town of Brunswick don't think that's a good idea.

Nat Bell is an independent logger living and working in Leeds, Maine. In addition to felling trees, hauling logs, and cutting lumber, Nat also volunteers his time to the Kennebec Land Trust teaching kids about the benefits of good, sustainable forestry.