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Island Institute Helps Families Cast a Wider Net
In 2019, Sam Flavin moved to Maine from Burlington, Massachusetts, to take a job as a sternman on a lobsterboat. “I’d never really considered making a life on the water,” the former nonprofit worker...
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25 Maine Waterfalls to Hike to This Summer
By Adrienne Perron and Brian Kevin From our July 2023 issue Okay, so you might be a fitness nut who heads out on a vigorous hike for the sheer aerobic pleasure of it. Or one of those crunchy granolas...
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By Will GrunewaldFrom our May 2023 issue As the 19th century came to a close, Maine was on the cusp — or precipice, depending on perspective — of becoming Vacationland. From Kennebunkport to Moosehead...
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In Praise of Sometimes Islands
By Brian KevinPhotos by Chris ShaneFrom our June 2023 Island Issue As far as I know, the island I’m choosing to call Lyons Island does not, in fact, have a name. Among the people who, most recently,...
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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Reid State Park Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from May’s photo. As a youngster, my sailing class would sail to Reid State...
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A Perfect Weekend on North Haven
By Adrienne PerronFrom our June 2023 Island Issue Get There Catch the North Haven ferry from the Maine State Ferry Service terminal in Rockland, making the 70-minute crossing to the island three times...
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Jimmy Simones Relishes 50 Years at Simones’ Hot Dog Stand
By Michaela CavallaroPhotos by Nicole WolfFrom our July 2023 issue Simones’ Hot Dog Stand has been mentioned on the floor of the U.S. Senate, featured in People magazine, and visited by governors,...
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A Perfect Weekend on Monhegan
By Will GrunewaldFrom our June 2023 Island Issue Get There During peak season, island visitors have their pick of passenger ferries out of three different mainland harbors. Round-trip tickets range...
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Melissa Crowe’s Aroostook Upbringing Inspires Her Award-Winning New Poetry...
By Michael ColbertFrom our July 2023 issue Born to a teenage single mother, Melissa Crowe lived with her grandfather and four uncles in a two-bedroom house on the edge of Presque Isle, by an abandoned...
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A Cascade of Questions for Waterfall Expert Greg Westrich
By Brian KevinFrom our July 2023 issue Greg Westrich visited more waterfalls in Maine in 2019 than most of us are likely to see in a lifetime — some 50 of them just that summer, while researching his...
View ArticleLinda Greenlaw’s Favorite Maine Place
By Adrienne PerronFrom our July 2023 issue She’s the only woman in America to captain a swordfishing boat, but that’s hardly the most interesting thing on Linda Greenlaw’s résumés. She grew up hauling...
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Peoples Inclusive Welding Is Out to Make the Trades More Welcoming
By Hadley GibsonPhotos by Michael D. WilsonFrom our July 2023 issue In an industrial park in South Portland’s Cash Corner neighborhood, wedged between auto-body garages and equipment suppliers, a sign...
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24 Maine Restaurants That Have Stood the Test of Time
By Bridget Burns, Will Grunewald, Brian Kevin, Adrienne Perron, and Virginia M. WrightFrom our July 2023 issue It’s a bit of a know-it-when-you-see-it situation, trying to pick classic restaurants....
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A Perfect Weekend on Peaks Island
By Adrienne PerronFrom our June 2023 Island Issue Get There Departing the ferry. Photo by Cara Dolan Peaks is the easiest of Maine’s unbridged islands to visit. Take Casco Bay Lines’ Peaks Island...
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At Trudy Bird’s Ølbar, the Smør the Merrier
By Kate McCartyPhotos by Liz DalyFrom our July 2023 issue In 2017, brothers Alan and Jonathan Hines were on vacation in Copenhagen, and a lightbulb went off when they happened upon a food stall packed...
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In Maine’s Pontoon Capital, a Wet, Hot Lakeside Summer
By Jaed CoffinPhotographed by Mat TrognerFrom our July 2023 issue Many years ago, I fell asleep in the back seat of my father’s car while driving home to Brunswick after a trip to Vermont....
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Timber, Coal, Oil, and Wind
Peter Ralston had the 19th-century paintings of Fritz Hugh Lane in mind when he framed this shot, with Rockport’s Indian Island Light in the foreground. Just as Lane’s work portends the end of the Age...
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In Bar Harbor, Havana Has Become an Unlikely Classic
By Jesse EllisonPhotos by Nicole WolfFrom our July 2023 issue We were delusional,” Michael Boland says of 1999, the year he and his wife, Deidre Swords, opened Havana, on Bar Harbor’s Main Street. “We...
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Buy This Issue! Features The Phantom of the Allagash Eighty years ago, an act of shocking violence in the Maine woods kicked off a sprawling manhunt that captivated observers around the country and...
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A Perfect Weekend on Chebeague
By Will GrunewaldPhotos by Briana LyonsFrom our June 2023 Island Issue Get There The quickest option is the Chebeague Transportation Company, which runs a ferry every couple of hours out of Yarmouth,...
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