It has become common knowledge in many circles that there are numerous health benefits to getting one’s body massaged.

If you’re walking down By Way in Boothbay Harbor, don’t be alarmed if you see a group of people huddled outside a bright-yellow building. Chances are they’re likely under the spell of an antique machine pulling strings of taffy in the large window of Downeast Candies.

Grace Goldberg recalls the first time she visited Meadowbrook Farm, located in the Kennebec Valley town of China.