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Bottling Maine
Building a company’s brand around its Maine identity isn’t as straightforward as it might seem. Sure, the state is beautiful, but Maine is also a state of mind — a way of living and a code of behavior...
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View the Latest Issue
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2017 Writing Workshop
Whether you’re a professional writer or write as a hobby, let the editors of Down East help you advance your craft. Learn what magazines are looking for from writers, hone your skills, and get out and...
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Down East Dispatches
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine Madawaska Tim Gron, of Lemont, Illinois, raced his motor scooter from California to Maine in four days — so fast that no one was...
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Her Art Is Everywhere
An unconventional sculptor (and a marine biology student) on bridging the art-and-science divide. By Virginia M. Wright Rockland artist Kim Bernard roams the intersection of art and science, and she...
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Pumpkinhead Orange Cranberry Sauce
SPONSORED CONTENT Pumpkinhead Orange Cranberry Sauce 1 orange 4 cups Pumpkinhead 1 small apple (peeled & diced) 6 cups fresh cranberries 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp ground clove 2 1/2 cups sugar...
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Work with Purpose
A Saco woodshop builds iconic Maine furniture — and better lives for employees with disabilities. By Meadow Rue Merrill Photographed by Michael D. Wilson The air inside the cavernous,...
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Inside the Olson House
The House is bleak. There is no softening landscape, no adjacent buildings other than a lonely barn to add the warmth that a cluster provides, only sky as the limitless background to a house that is...
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No Man an Island
LJ Hopkins versus the U.S. Postal Service For 21 years, LJ Hopkins has hauled mail and essential supplies to Swan’s Island. Come wind, rain, waves, or snow, he loads his cargo van six days a week and...
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Where to Eat Now
We’re not asking you to dine out at every amazing restaurant in Maine. Just these 20. Plus one entire town. Hope you’re hungry. Photographed by Douglas Merriam Drifters Wife 63 Washington Ave.,...
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Fifty Under $50
By Laura Serino, Photographed by Irvin Serrano This year, our love for Maine makers and artisans met our ingrained Yankee frugality. The result? Dozens of brilliant and stylish Maine-made gifts for...
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Granite Guardian of Rockland Harbor
Between 1888 and 1895, the light station was moved four times. Its first keeper, Eba Ring, was succeeded by Charles Ames, who was paid $25 a month for lighting the lamps at dusk and extinguishing them...
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Where in Maine?
Can you name this village? Maine’s number-one visitor attraction lies just a few miles from this rugged fishing village, but it’s so quiet, you’d never know it — certainly not in December. For reasons...
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December 2016
Editor’s Note by Kathleen Fleury Expand To Read The background photo I keep on my iPhone is a shot of my son, then just a year old, lit up by green Christmas lights at Gardens Aglow, a wonderful light...
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The Wreck Chaser
Hundreds of military planes crashed in Maine during World War II, including 48 that resulted in fatalities. Wreckage is still scattered in the North Woods, on mountain slopes and lake bottoms, and off...
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In Memoriam: Donn Fendler
Donn Fendler was 12 years old in July 1939, when a storm separated him from his group on top of Mount Katahdin. After nine days alone in the wilderness, without adequate food, shelter, or clothing, he...
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World of Watercraft
A new documentary reveals the man long at the helm of WoodenBoat magazine, who helped revive a dying craft. By Will Grunewald Photographs courtesy of Oleg Harencar Bay Area filmmaker Oleg Harencar was...
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View From the Top
Some two miles from the mainland, with nothing between it and savage squalls, the old sentinel has been battered frequently. Civil War-era keepers, according to one account, were afraid for their...
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Pumpkinhead Cupcakes
SPONSORED CONTENT Pumpkinhead Cupcakes 1 Cup flour 1 tsp of baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp cinnamon 1/4 ginger 1/4 nutmeg 1/2 cup light brown sugar 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1/2...
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Nothin’ But a Gi Thing
In the woods outside Farmington, a martial-arts champ built a hobby into a lifestyle into a factory. By Amber Kapiloff Photographed by Michael D. Wilson When the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi invited him...
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