Legal Heroes Help Rescue Maine Farmers from a PFAS Nightmare
Adam Nordell and Johanna Davis founded Songbird Farm in 2011 with a desire to make a living working outdoors. Like all small farmers, they also hoped to produce fresh, healthy food to nourish their...
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The Results of Our Best of Maine Beer Poll
From our November 2023 issue In an online poll, beers were organized by style, and we also asked about taprooms and can art (plus threw in a couple of wildcards). Based on the results, it sure seems...
View ArticleMaine Maritime Museum Benefits from a Sea of Dedicated Volunteers
Beth Holmberg, a certified journeyman blacksmith, first discovered Maine Maritime Museum while visiting from San Diego, and was impressed by the expansive campus. “I walked in the door and they said,...
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A Southwest Harbor Couple’s Art Gallery Is Also Their Living Room
By Sara Anne DonnellyPhotos by Sue Anne HodgesFrom our November 2023 issue On a stormy afternoon last June, more than 100 people gathered for the opening of a new gallery — not in a slick,...
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Mitr Ping Yang Thai Kitchen Is Connecting Its Guests to a Wider Range of Flavors
By Michaela CavallaroPhotos by Anthony DiBiaseFrom our November 2023 issue Major landmarks on outer Congress Street, across I-295 from downtown Portland, include a Dunkin’, a couple of gas stations,...
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The Brewpub Is Making a Comeback in Maine
By Kate McCarty From our November 2023 issue Chef David Rinaldi’s kitchen makes dishes like goat birria tacos, beer-battered haddock with honey-miso-butter glaze, and delicate little agnolotti pasta...
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Good Shepherd Food Bank Aims to End Food Insecurity in Maine by 2025
In 2015, Good Shepherd Food Bank, Maine‘s largest hunger-relief organization, set a bold goal that by 2025 all Mainers experiencing food insecurity would have access to the nutritious, culturally...
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Five Minutes With Alice Nasto
Interview by Sarah Stebbins Photos by Tara RiceFrom the Fall 2023 issue of Maine Homes by Down East In my spare time, I… quilt. I taught myself as a kid [in Houston], and picked it back up during the...
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6 Maine-Made Picks for Your Thanksgiving Table
By Sarah StebbinsPhoto by Tara RiceFrom our November 2023 issue 1. Hand-Dipped Taper Erik Laustsen learned candlemaking as an apprentice in his uncle’s Denmark factory. Today, he and his wife, Cindy,...
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Amjambo Africa! Builds a Bridge Between New and Longtime Mainers
By Virginia M. WrightPhotos by Molly HaleyFrom our November 2023 issue Twenty-one years ago, when he was 29, Georges Budagu Makoko fled genocide in Central Africa for the second time. He arrived in...
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Warm Up Your Space With a Maine-Made Wall Hanging
From the Fall 2023 issue of Maine Homes by Down East Scarborough’s Stephanie Jones Douglass weaves unraveled lobster rope, found on the beach, into frilly stripes. 181⁄2-by-12 in., $105. Nature’s...
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Seal Populations Are Booming, and So Are Rescues by Marine Mammals of Maine
By Alix MorrisPhotos by Tristan SpinskiFrom our November 2023 issue Number 39 was born on a rocky shoreline ledge in Harpswell. It was mid-April and the air was cool and damp, morning fog lifting into...
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Father-Daughter Jewelry Designers Tag-Team the Decorating In Their New Warren...
Above: William Kinnane, John Petersen, and their daughter Riley pose with their basenjis, Emerson and Graham, in a reading nook outfitted with comfy armchairs from Camden’s DAAC Designs. Petersen and...
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An Innovative Partnership Connects BIPOC Youth With the Maine Outdoors
For Tamara Lee Pinard, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Maine’s community program director, understanding people’s relationship to nature is essential to finding sustainable solutions to the...
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Rangeley’s First Bank Is a Classical Revival Cutie on Main Street
By Julie SenkFrom the Fall 2023 issue of Maine Homes by Down East By the turn of the 20th century, Lewiston architect William R. Miller had a demonstrated flair for the dramatic, having designed...
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Buy This Issue! Features Homes on the Range Ever dream of owning a Maine ski retreat? Draw inspiration from four diverse mountain dwellings with charm and gear-storage galore — and style as refreshing...
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The Maine Breweries Content With Keeping Things Small
By Will GrunewaldPhotos by Dave WaddellFrom our November 2023 issue Microbrewery isn’t a word much heard nowadays, despite the divide between big and small shaping perceptions of the beer world for...
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Rebeccah Sanders’s Favorite Maine Place
By Virginia M. WrightFrom our November 2023 issue The week that Rebeccah Sanders accepted the position of CEO at the Natural Resources Council of Maine, she happened upon a photo from her first visit...
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Round Pond Artist Liz Martone’s Massive Mosaic Gems Are Simply Brilliant
By Jesse EllisonPhotos by Hannah HoggattFrom our November 2023 issue The golden hour in Liz Martone’s Round Pond studio is from one to three in the afternoon. That’s when light pours through the...
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Maine’s Supersize Holiday Celebrations, By the Numbers
By Virginia M. WrightFrom our December 2023 issue 2 Number of New Year’s Eve drops at the Tides Institute & Art Museum, in Eastport, near the Maine–New Brunswick border. At midnight Atlantic time,...
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