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Best of Maine 2017 – Readers’ Choice
Votes must be submitted by May 8, 2017. Winners will be announced in our July issue. Having trouble seeing the survey? Try viewing it here. The post Best of Maine 2017 – Readers’ Choice appeared first...
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A Magical Moment
The setting for this year’s Writing Retreat I will never forget the first time I set foot on Gay Island, scoping out the lodge for the Down East Writing Retreat. My coworker and I stopped at Wallace’s...
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Reaping What They Sow
As traditional fisheries stare down climate-induced disaster, aquaculture could be Maine’s next great industry. So how come more fishermen aren’t ready to start seafarming? By Mary Pols Photographed by...
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Coda
Coda 18 Village Green Way, Southwest Harbor 207-244-8133; codasouthwestharbor.com By Virginia M. Wright Photographed by Michael D. Wilson It was six o’clock on a Saturday night, and Main Street in...
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Pots and Plans
Martha Stewart shares her favorite resources for plants, seeds, and gardening advice. Photographs by Stacy Cramp Skylands, my home on Mount Desert Island, was designed to take advantage of the natural...
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What’s in a Picture
A hundred years ago this month, the U.S. entered World War I. As young men left Maine for the front, women took key industrial jobs, like inspecting howitzer shells at the Portland Company factory on...
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Where in Maine?
Can you name this town and its cerulean bay? Wish you lived here? We can’t blame you. If you were to get any closer to the water, you’d be on a houseboat. You’re standing (virtually speaking) on the...
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May 2017
Buy this issue Special Subscription Offer Download app Editor’s Note by Kathleen Fleury Expand To Read Back when I was a Yarmouth High School Clipper, Clam Festival weekend wasn’t all summer...
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Win a Sea Bags Limited-Edition Down East Tote
Two iconic Maine brands collaborate to design the Sea Bags Limited-Edition Down East Tote Vote below to choose the final design! The winning design will be announced at the Down East Lobster Roll...
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Don’t Hate the Player
Courtesy of Preposterously Dank Entertainment Maine’s hardest-working rapper levels up on your smartphone or tablet. Recently, the Maine rapper Spose gathered a photographer, animator, and trio of...
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American Classic
After his bluegrass band’s Grammy win, Mark O’Connor lends his fiddle to the PSO Pops!. Photograph by Mitch Weiss In 2014, it was big fiddling news when Mark O’Connor dropped his favorite violin...
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The World from Cadillac
Experience Acadia like never before It’s hard to imagine a more beautiful spot in the world than the top of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia. On a Down East Adventure a few years ago I was lucky enough to...
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Hit Maker
A baseball-bat manufacturer in Shirley Mills gets his call-up to the big leagues. By Joel Crabtree Photographed by Brian Fitzgerald Last summer, the year after the Kansas City Royals won their first...
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Beetles
A meditation on a garden pest. By Greg Westrich Photographed by Michael D. Wilson I stand in the backyard holding a plastic bucket containing several inches of soapy water with airy foam on top. It’s a...
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Ball Canto
A University of Southern Maine professor’s unlikely new opera takes a run at a pioneering black baseball legend. Composer Daniel Sonenberg has 8-year-old triplets named Satchel, Pablo, and Levi. “The...
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The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt Outdoors
Outdoors Category Sponsor: Mount Desert Island Hospital Click Here to Learn How to Play A stop-by-stop road map to everything the Pine Tree State has to offer when the sun is shining, the ocean is...
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The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt Food & Drink
Category Sponsor: Cellardoor Winery Click Here to Learn How to Play A stop-by-stop road map to everything the Pine Tree State has to offer when the sun is shining, the ocean is warm(-ish), the...
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Lady Lamb the Mystery
Who is Aly Spaltro and what does she have to say? By Will Grunewald The drive down Harpswell Neck on a Thursday in February was full dark except for a sliver of moon, a few stars, and a faint...
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Tulsi North
Tulsi North 231 Post Rd., Wells 207-360-0443 By Joe Ricchio Photographed by Douglas Merriam You notice the blazing intensity of chef Raj Mandekar’s shrimp balchow as soon as it arrives at your table....
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