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Wolves Are Still With Us
Ralston captured this coyote standing on the edge of Kimball Island, in Penobscot Bay, seeming to gaze out at Saddleback Ledge Light before swimming across the channel to neighboring Isle au Haut. By...
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Harvest Maine’s Veggie Spreads Are a Little Off-Beet
By Katy KelleherPhotos by Hannah HoggattFrom our April 2023 issue Faced with misshapen, discolored, or otherwise ugly vegetables, farmers often make the hard decision to leave them in the field. Labor...
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Rogue Industries Makes Leather Goods to Last
When Michael Lyons asked his doctor about some back pain, back in 2007, his doctor suggested he stop sitting on a bulky wallet. Not long after, he was doing laundry and realized that a front pants...
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Rockland Oceanside High School wrestler Maddie Ripley won in the 106-pound weight class at the state championships. She is the first girl to take home a Maine title. Her twin brother, Gavin, also won...
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For Maine’s Birds, the Future Is Up In the Air
By Mary PolsPhotos by Matt TrognerFrom our April 2023 Animals issue It seems most bird news is bad news these days. Reports around the world register bird populations that are dwindling in size and...
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Congratulations to the Winners of Down East‘s Fifth Annual Cutest Pets Photo...
Thank you to all the proud pet owners who nominated pets for the contest and to our contest sponsor, TriPom Chews. Thousands of photos were submitted from all over the country. A portion of the...
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Bar Harbor’s Mouse Mecca, By the Numbers
By Peter Andrey SmithFrom our April 2023 Animals issue 13,000 Strains of research mice offered by Mount Desert Island’s Jackson Laboratory for Mammalian Genetics. Founded in Bar Harbor, in 1929, the...
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These Maine Farmers Raised Their Baby Yak Like a Dog
By Brian KevinFrom our April 2023 Animals issue Adria and Loki Horn bought their 91-acre farm, in Pittston, in 2015. “Well, I should say, we bought a piece of land,” clarifies Adria, who, at the time,...
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Maine’s Best Bars for Watching Sturgeon
By Scot McFarlane and John LichterFrom our April 2023 Animals issue Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon outlived the dinosaurs, surviving in the waters of what would become Maine, where their progeny were...
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Buy This Issue! Features 101 Reasons to Love Summer in Maine Piecing together your summer plans? Here’s a plethora of reminders why they ought to include regular rambles to every corner of the Pine...
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Waterville’s New Downtown Arts Center Unites a Whole Lot of Culture Under One...
For Shannon Haines, former executive director of the Maine Film Center, the most frustrating part of running an arts organization was getting bogged down in menial work. As one of just three...
View ArticleCan You Name This Oceanfront Park?
This golden beach lines one edge of an idyllic parcel once owned by a well-to-do Mainer known in the press as “The Mystery Main of Wall Street.” In 1946, the Mystery Man, noted for both his trading...
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Meet Your Maker On the Maine Pottery Tour
By Adrienne PerronFrom our May 2023 issue These days, a man makes you something and you never see his face,” Don Henley sang, back in the ’80s. That line, from a solo track by the Eagles drummer, has...
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Kani Gutter Said Yes to This Maine-Made Grammy Dress
By Adrienne PerronFrom our May 2023 issue Dave Gutter found out he’d be attending the Grammy Awards, in Los Angeles, just three weeks before the ceremony. The longtime front man of Portland rock...
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What’s in Store for Freeport?
By Bridget M. Burns Photographed by Dave WaddellFrom our May 2023 issue In the 1700s, Freeport was a shipbuilding town. By the mid-1800s, shipbuilding had given way to shoemaking — 30 shoe factories...
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Maine’s Alewife Run: A Spectacle of Abundance
By Brian KevinPhotos by Benjamin Williamson, Michael D. Wilson, Mat Trogner, and Dave DostieFrom our May 2023 issue Last year was a good one for alewives, the small, silvery, anadromous fish that once...
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Gemini Cafe & Bakery Is Filling a Hole in Bethel’s Social Scene
By Will GrunewaldFrom our May 2023 issue Anna Sysko and Nicole Pellerin figured the run on baked goods and other breakfast and lunch offerings at Gemini Cafe and Bakery would ease up once initial...
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In Benton, Woodworkers Turn Foraged Wood into Fungi Figurines
By Becca AbramsonPhotos by Dave DostieFrom our May 2023 issue As kids, cousins Luke and Edmund Couture spent a lot of time in the woodshop on Luke’s parents’ farm, in Benton. They taught themselves to...
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A Tribute to the “Mayor of Maine”
By Brian KevinFrom our May 2023 issue Peaks Island author Chuck Radis was one of many, many friends that John Jenkins made when the New Jersey native enrolled at Lewiston’s Bates College, in 1970....
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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Sugarloaf Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from March’s photo. In the mid-1980s, a chalkboard at the entrance to a lower...
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