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DVDepository
Bill Duggan’s film-buff legacy — all 18,000 titles — lives on at the Portland Public Library. Many a Maine cinephile wept into her popcorn last July when Bill Duggan, owner and chief movie geek at...
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Our Favorite Down East Photos of 2015
Another year, another several hundred photographs of people, places, and moments in the state we love. We looked back on the shots that made our pages pop in 2015 and (after some heated intra-staff...
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Our Favorite Letter
Where in Maine? November 2015 Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from November. How appropriate that I should open my Down East...
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True Confessions
A storytelling scene grows in Lewiston at The Corner. By Sara Ann Donnelly Bates College professor Michael Sargent has a story to tell. A subculture of “tellers” has evolved around his Lewiston...
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16% Off All2016Down East Calendars
It’s like hanging a piece of art on your wall. Our calendars feature some of our favorite photographers and tons of beautiful Maine images, just in time for 2016. Get 16% off through this Friday. Shop...
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Color Me Calm
A Maine coloring book invites adults to get unplugged. You say you’ve had your fill of adults behaving like children? You’re tired of grown men and women — presidential candidates, we call them —...
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From Our Archives Winter 1955
Bird’s Eye Crew From the article “Maine’s Flying Wardens” by Lew Dietz in our Winter 1955 edition. Cover image by William Shevis Maine’s flying wardens — the eyes of the state’s Department of Inland...
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What’s In a Picture
The Gospel According to Benjamin Bubar With the passion of an evangelist, Benjamin Calvin Bubar Sr. urged the Maine House of Representatives in 1951 to enact a 1 percent gross income tax instead of a...
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Down East Trips
Choose your adventure for the Ultimate Maine Experience 3rd Annual Penobscot Bay Food Cruise July 17–22 Once again, Down East has teamed up with the schooner Stephen Taber to offer our readers an...
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Season of Myths
Big blizzards have a way of getting bigger in the telling. Maybe it’s because they reassure us that we are not alone. Photo by Mark Fleming Last winter, as the state of Maine was being hit by one storm...
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Do You Live in a Barn?
Why, yes, as a matter of fact, Tom and Peggy Hamilton do. By Meadow Rue Merrill Photographed by Cait Bourgault For 40 years, retired teachers Tom and Peggy Hamilton have lived in Cornville, a rural...
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MK Kitchen
MK Kitchen 2 School St., Gorham 207-222-2588, mkkitchen.net By Joe Ricchio Photographed by Douglas Merriam Chef Mitchell Kaldrovich and his wife, Lisa, knew that a restaurant of their own was in the...
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All Stove Up
Illustration by Christine Mitchell Adams Shopping for a woodstove recently, we flipped through the catalog of Norwegian stove maker Jøtul, shivering at the photos of Europe’s bleak, icy north. As we...
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40% Off All2016Down East Calendars
It’s like hanging a piece of art on your wall. Our calendars feature some of our favorite photographers and tons of beautiful Maine images. Shop in Our Online Store The post 40% Off All2016Down East...
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Down East Dispatches
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine Rangeley Firefighters rescued a driver from a truck teetering between the walls of a 60-foot-deep gorge near Smalls Falls. The...
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On Their Feet
A rejuvenated Quoddy Footwear finds a niche in the maker movement. By Meadow Rue Merrill Photographed by Jared Lank On the second floor of a massive brick mill overlooking Lewiston’s congested Lisbon...
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Smoke on the Water
Cold air flowing over a warmer sea gives rise to Maine’s rarest — and most beautiful — type of fog. By Kim Ridley I’ve been attempting the quixotic art of loving winter in Maine ever since I moved back...
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Lobster Stew
From Maine Home Cooking — 175 Recipes from Down East Kitchen by Sandra L. Oliver Lobster Stew Serves 4 Rowman & Littlefield A good lobster stew has a divine color, and it is good to make it ahead....
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Call for Maine Artists The Art of Giving 2016
Down East is seeking four community-driven, talented Maine artists to highlight in 2016 and feature at our Art of Giving Gala. The Art of Giving pairs an artist with a Maine charity (of the artist’s...
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Preview the Latest Issue
The latest issue of Down East is now available in our store and on our tablet app. Take a look inside! The post Preview the Latest Issue appeared first on Down East.
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