Articles by Glenn Adams

Pliers to planes, chisels to chain cutters, hand saws to hammers, they’re all here, bins and shelves and racks brimming with them. Read more

With a succession of four curved rooflines arching toward the southern sky before ending abruptly with walls of glass, the architecture is striking. Read more

The popularity of skiing snowballed in America in the 1920s and ’30s, creating a new industry for a number of companies that cropped up around schuss-happy Maine. Read more

Miles off the paved highway and at the end of a long, bumpy driveway that cuts deep into the woods, Mick Womersley puts the finishing touches on his solar home. Read more

When it opened to traffic in 1931, the Waldo-Hancock Bridge that arches gracefully over Maine’s Penobscot River was hailed as the world’s most beautiful steel bridge built for less than $1 million. Read more

It was July of 1776 when James Adams went into the farmlands of central Pennsylvania to recruit a militia for the budding American Revolution. Read more

Inmate Al Dumas says he knew zilch about fixing up cars when he signed up for an auto body work program at the minimum-security prison where he’s trying to rewrite his criminal past. Read more

Laura Bush joins actors, writers and a former British prime minister in pitching her favorite books for the annual “Who Reads What?” Read more

Bill Reid remembers the scene vividly: A man from a nearby lepers’ village emerged from the jungle and begged in the street of the African city where Reid worked as a Peace Corps advisor. Read more