An error has occurred. Please try again. With a The Portland Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It looks like you do not have any active ...

The other day I arrived at school to have one of the new custodians stop me in the hall and tell me that if he had never seen me in his life before he would know right away that I was from Maine. I ...

The man credited with inventing a bluegrass style that paved the way for a new era passed away earlier this week. Wade Mainer, a bluegrass picker turned auto worker turned born again picker died in ...

Julia Mainer, wife and musical partner of late bluegrass musician Wade Mainer, passed away on Jan. 21 at the age of 95. Her death came after a recent fall, from which she suffered fatal injuries. Born ...

Wade Mainer, a country music pioneer credited with inventing the two-finger banjo-picking style that paved the way for the bluegrass era, has died. He was 104. Mainer died at his home in Flint ...