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6 Maine Skeins for Your Spring Knitting Projects
HALCYON YARN GEMSTONE SILK BOUCLÉSWANS ISLAND DIP DYEDSEVEN SISTERS ARTS ASTRIDONTHEROUND NIMBLE SOCKQUINCE OWLETLANA PLANTAE RAMBOUILLET FINGERING Photographed by Mark Fleming BUY THIS ISSUE! The...
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Food is Fun at Auburn’s Mu Noi
By Will GrunewaldPhotographed by Jeff Roberts Owners Sav and Elise Sengsavang. Around Maine, great and creative food so often shows up in seemingly unlikely places that it no longer seems unlikely. In...
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Ogunquit A rock wren was sighted for only the second time ever in Maine, making regular appearances around Perkins Cove. The species of tiny gray-brown songbirds normally doesn’t stray east of the...
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The Winter Barns of Aroostook County
Photographed by Benjamin Williamson | Text by Brian Kevin Don Perkins, a former carpenter from Raymond, wrote the definitive book on Maine barns back in 2012. “They are symbols of rural community,”...
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Virtual Cooking Classes for a Good Cause
By Joel CrabtreePhotographed by Clayton Simoncic A Kingston Negroni The pandemic sunk plans for the 25th-anniversary fundraising gala for Oasis Free Clinics, a Brunswick-based nonprofit that provides...
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Coco Corral Loves Her Anvil
By Sara Anne DonnellyPhotographed by Michael D. Wilson “We have a little bubble here and we’ve worked pretty hard to maintain it,” jewelry designer Coco Corral says from the barn turned studio she...
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Jessica Meir’s Favorite Maine Place
Decades before she was a NASA astronaut, Jessica Meir was a kid from Aroostook County who loved leaping into massive snow piles at her family’s cabin on Big Madawaska Lake. In the summer, the cabin...
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The Naturalist in Migration Land
By Rachel Slade | Photographed by Tristan Spinski One day last fall, author and naturalist Scott Weidensaul drove across the border from his home in Milton, New Hampshire, with his Subaru Outback...
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Features Street View The pandemic left Portland’s streets quieter than usual last fall, and a photographer captured a ground-level portrait of the buzzy city at an inflection point, taking stock at...
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Can Maine-Made Heated Cushions Help Pandemic-Battered Restaurants?
By Sarah StebbinsPhotographed by Zack Bowen Last fall, Jocelyn Olsen and her partner, Colin Greig, were sitting under heat lamps on the second-story, harbor-front deck at Boone’s Fish House &...
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This Cheesecake is on the Honor System
By Joel CrabtreePhotographed by Dave Dostie Brenda and Andres Ledezma Brenda Ledezma’s garage is full of cheesecake. Pumpkin chocolate chip, pistachio, strawberry rhubarb, carrot cake, cookie dough,...
View ArticleCan You Name This Fort and the Tower Next Door?
During the Revolutionary War, the Province of Maine was the scene of a naval defeat so disastrous that it tarnished the reputation of artillery commander Paul “the British are coming!” Revere. Then,...
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What’s Worth Saving in Portland?
Photographed by Nicole Wolf By Peter Andrey Smith The four-faced, 18-foot-tall Hay & Peabody clock started counting time in 1925, commissioned to mark the 25th anniversary of an eponymous funeral...
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Thinking of moving to Maine, retiring here, or buying a vacation place? Good news: many of the lifestyle perks that make the Pine Tree State such a desirable place to live — like copious amounts of...
View ArticleWhere in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Tate House Museum Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from February’s photo. The care and preservation of Tate House, in...
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Ben’s Picks: Biweekly Photo Faves
Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse PHOTOGRAPHED BY LINDA CUNNINGHAM Something about certain locations just keep us coming back as photographers. We love the place, and we want to get to know it better...
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Portland Eats Showdown: Old School Versus New
Some longtime Portlanders remember a saltier city, arching an eyebrow at the influx of chefy restaurants luring national media and gastro-tourists. But plenty of Portland’s time-tested, unfussy places...
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The Development Projects Reshaping Portland
By Edgar Allen Beem, Sara Anne Donnelly, and Alexandra Hall BaysideOn the heels of a commercial surge, a residential one. At the end of 2021, there may be no Portland neighborhood more changed than...
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A Portland Historic Workout Will Educate And Exhaust You
By Sara Anne DonnellyPhotographed by Tory Welton Leigh Rush Olson’s tour of historic Portland begins with the city’s famous fires. There have been four big ones since the 17th century, she tells me,...
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A Browser’s Guide to Deering Center
By Jen DeRosePhotographed by Elle Darcy Commuters along Stevens Avenue know Deering Center as a quiet, verdant neighborhood with its own micro-downtown. Now, that two-block stretch of Stevens is...
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