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Loon-y Toons
British animator Will Rose draws inspiration from Eastport’s wildlife, architecture, and late-night Justin Bieber dance parties. By Brian Kevin They may not recognize his name, but our 3-year-old...
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Iconic Maine Photos George French’s Epitome of Beach Bliss
We scoured 175 years worth of images to find the 10 Most Iconic Maine Photos of All Time. Acclaimed to obscure, joyful to haunting, they’re the shots that tell Maine’s story. #6 A contributor to Down...
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Swig of the Month
Dark Side Corruption Foundation Brewing Company. 1 Industrial Way, Portland. 207-370-8187 Why We Dig It Well, for starters, the name. But also because this barrel-aged dark ale’s kick-in-the-pants...
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From Our Archives January 1980
Paul Sample (cover); Rhett Weiland (snowshoers) Snowy Two Shoes From “Trekking on Rawhide,” by Robert Deis, in our January 1980 issue. See more from this issue! The nationwide physical fitness boom...
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Thoughts on Home
When I was in kindergarten, the school bus dropped me off at a construction site. My parents were building their dream home on Cousins Island in Yarmouth and I’d spend my afternoons watching from a...
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2017 Lobster Roll Festival
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Down East Adventures
Are you interested in joining our editors this summer on an authentic Maine travel adventure? Submit your information below and we’ll keep you updated about our 2017 itineraries, space availability,...
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Iconic Maine Photos Kennedy’s Surreal Campaign Trail Moment
We scoured 175 years worth of images to find the 10 Most Iconic Maine Photos of All Time. Acclaimed to obscure, joyful to haunting, they’re the shots that tell Maine’s story. #4 To see all 10 iconic...
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View the Latest Issue
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Best Places to Live in Maine
Round 1December 20 Portland64% Saco/Biddeford36% Lewiston/Auburn30% Bangor70% Freeport70% South Berwick30% Presque Isle19% Rockland81% Round 2December 27 Portland75% Bangor25% Freeport31% Rockland69%...
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Oxford House Inn
Oxford House Inn 548 Main St., Fryeburg 207-935-3442, oxfordhouseinn.com By Joe Ricchio Photographed by Douglas Merriam Pelted by rain and plastered with soggy, wind-blown leaves, my friend and I...
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Living Deep by the Fire
Home is someplace between Walden and a woodstove. By Robin McCarthy There’s a moment in Walden when Thoreau laments outfitting his cabin by the pond with a woodstove instead of a fireplace. “The stove...
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Welcome to Portlyn
Now please go home? Ron Currie has some thoughts on Maine’s most rapidly changing city and the gentrification that displaced him from a neighborhood he loves. For many years, whenever I traveled by air...
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Iconic Maine Photos An Offbeat Errand, Now a Revered Image
We scoured 175 years worth of images to find the 10 Most Iconic Maine Photos of All Time. Acclaimed to obscure, joyful to haunting, they’re the shots that tell Maine’s story. #1 Courtesy of Peter...
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Thrills and Chills
Cold days and long nights wearing on you? To bust through those mid-winter doldrums, we have four heart-pounding, adrenaline-pumping races for you to check out (or try out) this year. The only...
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Victorian Revamp
With an eye on a quick sale, a couple updates a tattered old house on Portland’s Munjoy Hill — and they like it so well, they decide to stay. By Meadow Rue Merrill Photographed by Meredith Perdue Ryan...
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Down East Goes Back to School
Maine high-schoolers tackle the publishing biz — with Down East as their model. Editor in chief Kathleen Fleury and managing editor Brian Kevin recently paid a few visits to Camden Hills Regional High...
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Room With a View
By Franklin Burroughs In college, I learned that Thales of Miletus was a pre-Socratic philosopher who considered water the primary principle of life. On that basis, I felt an affinity. More recently, I...
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Split Decision
How Maine ended up with its oddball system for picking a president — and why that system is better than the way 48 other states do it. By Rob Sneddon In 1968, far-right presidential candidate George...
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Where in Maine?
Do you recognize this snow-streaked peak? Sixty-seven years ago, a guy named Winter cut the first ski trail on Maine’s second-highest mountain. Today, 162 ski runs stripe the massive cone, seen here...
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