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Katie Sturino’s Favorite Maine Place
Last March, when it suddenly looked wise to leave New York City for a while, Katie Sturino knew Maine was where she wanted to hunker down for quarantine. For almost 20 years, it’s been a favorite...
View ArticleThe Whale’s Gifts
By Susan Hand Shetterly In April and May, whales swim into the Gulf of Maine, not far from our islands and shore. A few females have at their sides their precious calves. I am thinking about the...
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Shark Attacks in Maine Were Unthinkable — Until Last Summer
By Kathryn MilesFrom our June 2021 issue Monday, July 27, 2020, dawned sultry and bright on Bailey Island, a village of about 400 full-time residents in the midcoast town of Harpswell. Early that...
View ArticleEnter for a Chance to Win a 2-Night Getaway to Boothbay Harbor at Linekin Bay...
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Glamping 101
Karen Strickland camped as a kid and happily chaperoned her son’s Cub Scout trips. She still loves outdoor overnights. But she’s done fumbling with tent stakes and trying to get comfy in a sleeping...
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Meet Two of New England’s Last Remaining Cobblers
By Jaed CoffinPhotographed by Dave Dostie Dick LaCasse was swiveling between sewing, gluing, and finishing machines, fixing beat-up shoes in his shop in downtown Skowhegan, when a man wearing a camo...
View ArticleThe Moody Dog’s Dogged Pursuit of Frankfurter Perfection
By Virginia M. Wright Photographed by Anthony Di Biase Drawing on her years as a restaurant server and manager, Raymelle Moody devised a hot-dog truck with that family in mind — the one with the fussy...
View ArticleMaine News You May Have Missed
Portland Local Arabic translator Susan McMillan became a one-night Jeopardy! champion, taking home $35,600 after correctly identifying, in Final Jeopardy, national-parks advocate John Muir as the...
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The Last of the Port Clyde Groundfishermen
Captain Randy Cushman, aboard his trawler, the Ella Christine. By Susan ConleyPhotographed by Ryan David Brown When Randy Cushman was growing up in Port Clyde, some 300 trawlers were moored up and...
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This Sculpture Trail Around Boothbay Harbor Is Very Gneiss
By Adrienne Perron The natural beauty of Maine’s coast has long attracted artists and art lovers, but how many Maine towns host a free museum in the streets? The Boothbay Harbor Region Sculpture Trail...
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Can Japanese Tech Help Scallop Farming Hit It Big in Maine?
By Joel CrabtreeIllustration by Mike O’Leary In 1889, the Cheseborough, a merchant ship out of Bath, had just set sail for New York from Japan when it was caught in a typhoon. The ship wrecked on...
View ArticleWhat Sets the Wild Blueberry Apart?
Lobsters aside, there is arguably no more Maine-y food than the wild blueberry. Vaccinium angustifolium emerged in the state’s rocky soils millennia before humans roamed the earth, and farmers have...
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What Can’t Mainers Dream Up?
By Will Grunewald Mainers have MacGyvered some pretty neat stuff over the years, and in his new book, Downeast Genius, Colby College historian Earl Smith tells the stories of that stuff — scores of...
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Maine Galleries and Studios
ADVERTISEMENT Artists have been attracted for centuries to Maine’s rugged and romantic landscape. Today is no different, with museums, galleries, and studios exhibiting artists who continue to use...
View ArticleJune 2021
Features Where to Eat Now After more than a year of adapting and adjusting, Maine’s restaurant scene is as dynamic as ever. With the summer ramping up, these 20 spots — classic to contemporary, classy...
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Utopia Is a Pretty Idyllic Place to Eat
By Joel CrabtreePhotographed by Anthony Di Biase When 28-year-old Rachel Moyse moved from Portland back to her hometown of Bangor, she noticed something missing: there were no restaurants serving the...
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Tour Belfast’s Unique New Glassblowing Studio
By Brian KevinIllustration by David Jacobson Unlike, say, knitters or ceramicists, you don’t run into a lot of casual hobbyist glassblowers. Making functional or sculptural works from molten glass...
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Where to Eat Wild Blueberries in Maine
Wild blueberries may not be the most obvious ingredient one expects to see on a bar menu, but when Luke Davidson launched Maine Craft Distilling, he knew that the locally-grown superfruit had to be...
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Can You Name This Historic Maine Town?
No other town in the world shares this one’s name. Apart from its three stunning beaches and a well-known row of historic captains’ houses, its more identifiable features include a dam not far from...
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This Dress Collection is Kind of Like a Time Machine
By Adrienne PerronPhotographs courtesy of the Maine Historical Society/Gail Dodge Fashion isn’t frivolous — it’s a primary resource that illustrates societal shifts throughout time. That’s what...
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