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Maine’s Most Prolific Birder Is 17 Years Old
By Elizabeth PeaveyPhotographed by Tristan Spinski Last year, Lisa Gilbert found herself in hot pursuit of an American three-toed woodpecker on the Golden Road, a red-billed tropicbird 20 miles off...
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Bridgton’s Gut-Busting, Come One, Come All ‘Beast Feast’
By Jennifer HazardPhotographed by Derek Bissonette Last summer, Dana Masters sported a Crocodile Dundee hat while hovering over the wood-fired smoker in his driveway, and Buddy Welch, a member of his...
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5 Giant, Eco-Conscious Trolls Are Hiding at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
By Jennifer Van AllenPhotographs courtesy of Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Each spring, the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens offers a dazzling lollapalooza for the senses, more than 300 acres strewn...
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The Ultimate Summer 2021 Maine Vacation Guide
Choose a Region Southern Maine Greater Portland Central & Western Maine Midcoast Down East & Mount Desert Island Northern Maine Southern Maine By Bridget M. Burns Least terns and piping...
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Greg Paxton’s Favorite Maine Place
When you’ve had a hand in preserving as many treasured and fascinating Maine sites as Greg Paxton has, it’s a big ask to name just one favorite. Paxton is the outgoing executive director of Maine...
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The “Unseen Story” of Growing Up Down East
By Will Grunewald Gigi Georges used to be a city person. She grew up in Brooklyn, moved to DC to work as a policy adviser in the Clinton White House, then went back to New York, where she continued to...
View ArticleWhere in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Fort Knox Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from April’s photo. During World War II, my father, who had a scrap-iron business...
View ArticleMaine News You May Have Missed
Portland Local rapper and Somali immigrant Munye Mohamed (aka Shine)’s music video for “Aspirations,” the title track on his debut album, got more than a million YouTube views within a week of...
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Changing Kittery to Save It
By Will GrunewaldFrom our May 2021 issue Buying the Corner Pub was not part of Michael Landgarten’s plan for stepping back from the restaurant business a couple of years ago. At the time, Landgarten...
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One of the Midcoast’s Best Bakeries is a Farm
By Will GrunewaldPhotographed by Greta RybusFrom our June 2021 issue Danielle Magno grew up in a Boston suburb with a large community of Italian immigrants, her parents among them. “Food,” she says,...
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Five Maine Fishing Experiences to Have Before You Die
By Brian KevinIllustrations via Shutterstock 1. Outsmart a Wild Maine Brook Trout Elsewhere in New England, the eastern brook trout has been all but eliminated in its native range by stocked...
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A Walk on the Heath
By Susan Hand Shetterly A walk on a heath is not like a walk through the woods or along a stream or the bay. A broad expanse, a heath has caught all of the wind, sun, sheets of rain, and layers of...
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Portland’s Sticky Sweet Takes the Cream Out of Ice Cream
By Kaitlyn SchwaljePhotographed by Clayton Simoncic Several hundred ice-cream shops cater to summer sweet tooths around Maine, but only one strictly serves plant-based scoops. Vegan sisters Ashley and...
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What Does the Future Hold for Maine and Wildfire?
By Philip KieferFrom our July 2021 issue During the last couple of summers, as newsmaking megafires burned across the West, Mainers started asking Tom Doak, director of the nonprofit Maine Woodland...
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Growing up in Columbia Falls, some of Adam West’s earliest memories revolve around blueberries. He raked the tiny fruit when he was just 5. His dad, grandfather, and great-grandfather worked at...
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Remembering Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin, whose work appeared in the July 2021 issue of the magazine, contributed to Down East just once, in the magazine’s fifth issue, in 1955. The poem...
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Features Main Street Moxie Six of our favorite small-town downtowns — and the buildings, businesses, and boosters that make them great. By Jesse Ellison, Will Grunewald, Brian Kevin, and Adrienne...
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Forty Years of the Gilley, Maine’s Unlikely Carved Bird Museum
By Jennifer Lynn CraigPhotographed by Michael D. Wilson It all began in “the bird shop,” the garage in Southwest Harbor where plumber turned artist Wendell Gilley carved some 10,000 wooden birds...
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Where to Eat in Maine Right Now
By the Down East staffPhotographed by Mark FlemingFrom our June 2021 issue State Lunch Craft & Kitchen, Augusta Chicken and waffles, ramen, and more at State Lunch. At a moment when comfort food...
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Know Your Native Maine Fish
By Ted WilliamsFrom our June 2021 issue Atlantic Salmon Atlantic salmon once abounded in all New England states. Now they’re restricted to Maine, where they’re federally endangered. Fishing for them...
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