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8th Annual Down East Reader Photo Contest Winners
Down East readers understand better than anyone the essence of Maine — something our annual photo contest proves to us again and again. Readers submitted nearly 1,200 images this year in three...
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Maine’s Single Best Food Block Is on Ocean Street
By Michaela CavallaroFrom our January 2023 issue It wasn’t long ago that the culinary scene in South Portland’s Knightville neighborhood wasn’t much. Uncle Andy’s Diner had been slinging no-frills...
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John Stirratt’s Favorite Maine Place
By Bridget M. Burns From our January 2023 issue Bassist and founding member of Chicago-based rock act Wilco, John Stirratt started working remotely four years before it became commonplace. In 2016, he...
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The Most Beautiful Furniture Crafted in Brewer is Three Inches Tall
By Sara Anne DonnellyPhotographed by Tara RiceFrom our January 2023 issue Despite her fondness for assembling tiny bookcases, wee cabinets, bitty chairs, and teensy tombstones, Meghan Smith is not...
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How Harpswell Got Its Community Newspaper Back
By Edgar Allen BeamFrom our January 2023 issue The Harpswell Anchor, a handsome little 32-page monthly tabloid newspaper, got its start in 1998, when lobsterman Bob Anderson found himself looking for...
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How Renys Became the Maine Adventure
Quality Merchandise, Great Values, and a Truly Unique Shopping Experience. You Will Find All Of This And More At Renys! In 1949, Robert H. Reny (better known to all as “R.H.”), opened his first store...
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At Bissell Brothers Three Rivers, the Food Rivals the Beer
By Will GrunewaldPhotographed by Dave WaddellFrom our January 2023 issue Ever since opening in Portland, in 2013, Bissell Brothers has made some of the finest, most sought-after beers in Maine, most...
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This Woman Wants to Destroy Your Lawn
By Peter Andrey SmithPhotographed by Michael D. WilsonFrom our January 2023 issue Heavy-duty pickups roared past Heather McCargo’s Prius as she pulled onto the shoulder of Route 11A, in Springvale. It...
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Malaga Island Has Gone From Dark Secret to Source Material
Photographed for a story about Malaga Island residents in an issue of Harper’s Monthly, in 1909. Photo from the collections of Maine Historical Society. By Jaed CoffinFrom our January 2023 issue This...
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Campobello Island is Neither Here nor There
By Joyce KryszakFrom our November 2022 issue It would be about a three-minute drive from downtown Lubec to Campobello Island, just across the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Bridge, over the narrow...
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Maine Pond-Hockey Faithful to Face-off in February
By Joel CrabtreeFrom our February 2023 issue The country’s first organized game of ice hockey was played on a pond in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1883, and it took a whole decade before anyone got...
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Ask the Experts: What to Consider When Saving for Retirement
It wasn’t too long ago that employer-managed pension programs were the norm for workers transitioning into retirement. Now, company-sponsored 401k plans are often the main vehicle for investments, in...
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Buy This Issue! Features Season Unseen Acadia National Park’s summertime splendor attracts millions of visitors, but in the depths of winter, the park takes on a different character. Photographed by...
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Keeping It Working
Peter Ralston’s shot of the portentously named lobsterboat Under Pressure, in Northeast Harbor, was among the images published in the Island Institute’s influential 2006 report The Last 20 Miles:...
View ArticleCan You Name This Much-Visited Maine Cove?
In 1896, a Massachusetts-born painter purchased five acres near this cove from the local farmer for whom it’s named. The painter built a studio overlooking the picturesque harbor and hosted summer art...
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Augusta The House of Representatives elected its first Black speaker, Democrat Rachel Talbot Ross. Her father, Gerald Talbot, was elected Maine’s first Black legislator in 1972. Oxford The Oxford...
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The Farnsworth Marks 75 Years With a Whole New Look
By Jesse Ellison From our February 2023 issue Jaime DeSimone has been visiting Rockland’s Farnsworth Art Museum for so long, she can’t remember her first trip. Childhood vacations involved...
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Downsizing Without Compromise
They Dream of Dahlias When Penny Myles and her husband, Art, moved to Maine from Hingham, Massachusetts, in the middle of a December 2021 ice storm, their prized dahlia tubers — cut, wrapped, and...
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A Look Back on 150 Years of Maine Winter Wear
By Adrienne PerronFrom our January 2023 issue 1873 Fifteen-year-old Chester Greenwood comes in from ice skating, ears freezing, looking for a better solution than a scarf around his head. He asks his...
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Need We Say Nor? One Author’s Case Against “Nor’easter”
By Brian KevinFrom our February 2023 issue Cathie Pelletier’s new book on the monumental storm known as the Blizzard of 1952 has everything you want from a nonfiction disaster narrative: eye-popping...
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