At the Elwell Farms retirement home, residents cultivate different kinds of flowers and plants in their gardens. Caty Enders speaks to the women about gardening and how it allows them to be a close community.

Barbershops are social places with a crowd of regulars. Julia Mickenberg takes readers inside two barbershops to highlight the culture within a barbershop.

Living in the home that his father build on Swan's Island, Basil Joyce sees his life as an island on its own. Janice Coyne speaks to Joyce about life on the island.

Seeking a sense of community and with a desire to not live alone, Kaler-Vaill offers widowed women a place to live and convene together. Ellington Miller speaks to women at Jaler-Vaill about their experiences and their lives.

Every two weeks, Trevin and Randall Turner drive from Georgia to Maine to deliver rescued dogs to adoptive parents. Andrea Muraskin highlights the work that the Turner's do for dogs and the importance for finding homes for them.

Volunteering to care for the dead in Portland's Jewish community, Sheera LaBelle performs the ancient ritual of Tahara. Casey Gordon captures the work done at the Jewish Funeral Home.

As the spiritual leader of the Penobscots, Senabeh believes he must make a last stand alongside his peoples. Pamela Wood speaks to Senabeh about how he defines his lonely Indianhood.

The most seaward of all of Maine's islands, Matinicus, was in need of a single teacher. Suzannah Hoover captures images of the school and island community.

At the age of 86, the Furbish twins, Ethel and Edie, have many interesting stories from their childhoods. Anne Gorham and Sherri Jones speak to the twins about their experiences.

For the Dunphy family, making mascots is a tradition and their business. Tracy Mumford documents how the family has created costumes for schools and business, in Maine and beyond.

Called names when they were young, Lauretta Elie and Emily Kinney were picked on for not being able to read. Melissa Buxton profiles how Elie and Kinney live and deal with being illiterate.

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