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3 Fabulous Foliage Forays on the Blue Hill Peninsula
By Brian Kevin, Adrienne Perron, and Sarah StebbinsPhotos by Dave WaddellFrom our October 2023 issue What sets the Blue Hill peninsula apart? Some would argue it’s the scattered bits of settlement,...
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Celebrate Sweet Spuds at the Maine Needham Festival
By Brian KevinFrom our September 2024 issue Got any big Maine Needham Day plans? Wait, you didn’t know the last Saturday in September is officially designated as Maine Needham Day? Oh, you say you’re...
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A Lady in a Gentleman’s Club
By Richard HalletFrom our May 1960 issue A woman in so exclusive a gentlemen’s club as the United States Senate is bound to stand out. She naturally attracts more attention than 99 men. A visitor to...
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Tall, Wispy Blooms Create a Meadow-Like Backyard in South Portland
By Virginia M. WrightPhotos by Kesley Kobik From our April 2024 Home & Garden issue James McCain’s garden reaches its final, glorious crescendo in September. Raspberry and deep-blue spikes of...
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October 2024
Buy This Issue! Features “You Can’t Explain It to Anybody” After a mass shooting took the lives of 18 people last October, families, friends, and survivors were left to process their grief and trauma...
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How to Enjoy the Autumn Grandeur of Maine’s Western Mountains
Photos by Dave WaddellFrom our October 2024 issue The Basics Based on past foliage-tracking reports from the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry, the Rangeley area usually...
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Can You Name This Picturesque Maine Dam?
From our October 2024 issue After a pair of blazes swept through their downtown in the second half of the 1800s, people in this neck of the woods realized they needed a reliable municipal water...
View ArticleThe University of New England’s Best Shot for Business
This fall, the University of New England welcomed excited students to the established institution’s new College of Business. One reason for their enthusiasm is the appointment of dean Norm O’Reilly, a...
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Remembering Maine’s Extraordinary Tide’s Out Golf Course
By Daniel BlissFrom our September 1962 issue An extraordinary golf course is flourishing for its second year on the coast of Maine, with mudflats for fairways, sand bars for greens, rock-grown seaweed...
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The Butcher The Baker Is a Fun and Tasty Addition to Bangor’s Dining Scene
By Brian KevinPhotos by Hannah HoggattFrom our October 2024 issue Before you get cute and ask: no, there is no candlestick maker at downtown Bangor’s The Butcher The Baker. Nor does the name refer...
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Abby Kraemer’s Favorite Maine Place
By Sarah StebbinsPhotos courtesy of University of Maine AthleticsFrom our October 2024 issue As a top high-school soccer recruit from Waterloo, Ontario, Abby Kraemer set her sights on the University...
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The Rope Co. Elevates Handwoven Lobster-Rope Designs
Logan Rackliff, a fifth-generation lobsterman, knows rope. He grew up surrounded by hard-working entrepreneurs in midcoast Maine, was hauling traps at age six, and captaining his own boat at age 10....
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There’s Plenty of Wisdom to Unearth In a Brooksville Vegetable Grower’s New Book
By Michaela CavallaroFrom our October 2024 issue Thirty-three years after she began farming on a Brooksville plot formerly owned by back-to-the-landers Helen and Scott Nearing, Barbara Damrosch...
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Best of Maine 2024
HOME & GARDEN SHOPPING & STYLE HEALTH & WELLNESS TRAVEL & PLAY ARTS & CULTURE FOOD & DRINK Down East readers first voted in a write-in round. The top-five vote getters in each...
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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Devil’s Den Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from August’s photo. Devil’s Den is a beautiful spot on Black Brook. I have...
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The Upstream Battle to Preserve Maine’s Lucrative Elver Fishery
By Michele Christle Photos by Nolan AltvaterFrom our October 2024 issue One morning this past spring, after commercial elver fishermen had met their quotas and elver buyers had closed up shop for the...
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A Bridgton Artist’s Expressive Gourd Carvings Speak Volumes
By Sara Anne DonnellyPhotos by Mat TrognerFrom our October 2024 issue Every year, around Halloween, sculptor William Janelle would earn a little extra money carving faces on gourds in front of crowds...
View ArticleAI Pioneer Sylvain Jaume Helps Launch UNE’s New Computer Science Programs
Sylvain Jaume has always felt driven to apply research in ways to improve people’s lives. A native of Belgium, Jaume came to the U.S. in 2000 to work in MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. “At that...
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Take a Spin Through the State’s Musical History at the Maine Historical Society
By Michaela CavallaroFrom our October 2024 issue Penobscot Nation musician and fashion designer Jason Brown stands with his back to the Bangor Symphony Orchestra and 138 choral singers in an...
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