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March 2017
Digital Edition Editor’s Note by Kathleen Fleury Expand To Read When my daughter was in her last year at a Peopleplace Cooperative Preschool, I took a photo of a chalkboard that showed what each kid...
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Boy Oh Boycott
Checking our ego about an embargo of Dirigo. By Brian Kevin From our March 2017 issue. In 1774, the American colonies’ First Continental Congress declared a blanket boycott on all British goods. The...
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Reclaimed Timbre
The Mallett Brothers Band’s latest album gives new life to old backwoods ballads. By Nick Schroeder The Falling of the Pine is available on CD from mallettbrothersband.com and downloadable on iTunes....
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Pressed Together
Can an Iraqi immigrant build community with a newspaper? By Will Grunewald Photo by Sean Alonzo Harris In 2003, Aqeel Mohialdeen papered flyers around Baghdad to protest the use of a popular park as a...
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Brahma Grill
Brahma Grill 96 Hammond St., Bangor 207-573-1464 By Joe Ricchio Photographed by Douglas Merriam On his way to Augusta to file forms for incorporation, Brett Settle was still thinking about what to name...
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Futuristic Farm House
A classic Maine aesthetic meets efficient construction techniques and net-zero energy consumption in this gracious home, available as a building package from BrightBuilt Home. The post Futuristic Farm...
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Best Places to Live in Maine
Once again this year, our editors seeded an online tournament bracket with 16 of our favorite Maine towns, broken up into four conferences by population. Our choices were guided by hard data like home...
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The Stranger in the Woods
For 27 years, Christopher Knight lived alone in a clandestine wooded camp in tiny Rome, undiscovered and unaided, breaking into camps to steal what he needed to survive. When he was finally captured...
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Outtakes from Maine Cabin Masters, the DIY Channel reality show featuring Wayne-based builder Chase Morrill and his crack team of cabin rehabbers. 2 Seat Outhouse Large Dice The post Cabinmasters...
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Aquaculture
Photographer Tristan Spinski took the photos that accompany Mary Pols’ story on Maine aquaculture, “Reaping What They Sow,” in our April 2017 issue. The images of Maine aquaculturists farming clams,...
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Where in Maine?
Can you name this charming town with expansive views? By the guest editor of our April 2017 issue, Martha Stewart In this serene Maine town of fewer than 1,500 residents — where the clock on my phone...
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Winter Comfort
A classic British dish is well suited to a cold Maine night. By Annemarie Ahearn Cottage pie (traditionally made with beef) or shepherd’s pie (traditionally made with lamb) is great winter comfort...
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Fire and Ice
For descendants of Maine’s 19th-century Finnish immigrants, the sauna ritual has lost none of its sanctity. By Ike Johnson Photographed by Molly Haley Laukka shaves in the sauna, a Finnish tradition...
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Swig of the Month
Cascara 44 North Coffee 11 Church St., Deer Isle 207-348-5208 Why We Dig It If there’s a more versatile potable out there, we’d be mighty surprised. Cascara’s mild plummy flavor works well infused in...
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From our Archives March 1958
Quite a Track Record From “The Real Peculiar Railroad” by Charles Morrow Wilson, in our March 1958 issue. Cover by Warren Spaulding Any railroad is interesting, but like fine brandies and beautiful...
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The Last Master
Few living artists can touch the legacy of David Driskell — for six decades, a vibrant and vital force in contemporary art. And through it all, Maine has been vital for him. By Charlotte Wilder...
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April 2017
Buy this issue Subscribe for $24 Download app From our guest editor, Martha Stewart Expand To Read Last summer, the editors of this beloved magazine asked if I would oversee the April issue, a...
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Storm Gathering
By Meadow Rue Merrill Illustration by Christine Mitchell Adams I carry a cardboard box with cakes up two flights of stairs to the dance hall perched above Bath’s Front Street. Shipbuilders’ kids once...
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