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Boys of Summer
Author Alex George spins a rollicking coming-of-age tale on the Maine coast. Haverford, Maine, the fictional locale of Alex George’s sophomore novel, Setting Free the Kites, got hit hard when its paper...
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Our Favorite Letter
Where in Maine? March 2017 Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from March. From our porch, we can hear the order numbers being...
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Farnsworth Private Tour
Farnsworth Art Museum Private Tour Sign up for a chance to join us May 3 for a private tour of the Andrew Wyeth exhibitions at The Farnsworth Art Museum. Two winners (plus one guest each) will be...
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What’s in a Picture
During the annual alewife migration up the Sebasticook River, harvesters beneath the hydroelectric dam in Benton can scoop fish into their skiffs by the netful. “The river just turns brown with them,”...
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The Sailor’s Nest
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The Great Maine Scavenger HuntHistory
Category Sponsor: Maine Maritime Museum 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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Culture Clash
With Disgraced, Portland Stage dives into an escalating national debate over religion, ethnicity, and American identity. By Sara Anne Donnelly This month, Portland Stage Company puts on Disgraced,...
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From our Archives May 1971
The Last Logjam From “Machias River Log Drive,” text and photos by Glenn Richmond, in our May 1971 issue. See more from this issue!Cover illustration by Nicholas Strekalovsky. Last April, 20 men of the...
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Lay of the Land
When we sat down with Martha Stewart to plan the April 2017 special issue, she raised the question: who’s leading the effort to protect undeveloped land in Maine in 2017? Turns out, it’s a timely...
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Summer Squeeze
A sudden paucity of waitstaff, hosts, and housekeepers has Maine’s hospitality industry feeling the heat this year. By Jesse Ellison It felt like a bad omen that, at the Maine Office of Tourism’s...
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Maine Homes Photo Contest
What does a dream home in Maine look like to you? Send us a photo of a home — your own or one you’d like to own — that epitomizes what living in Maine means to you, for a chance to win $250. The post...
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Fish Story
A clubhouse on the banks of the Penobscot River recalls the days when salmon — presidential or otherwise — were plentiful. By Tom Hennessey I’ve long wished that the aged clubhouse of the Penobscot...
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All Roads Music Festival
SPONSORED CONTENT Since 2015 the All Roads Music Festival has been showcasing the very best of Maine music talent every May in Belfast, Maine. On Saturday, May 20, more than 30 music artists from...
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Flower Moon Favorites
Two dishes perfect for early summer, from recipe columnist Annemarie Ahearn’s gorgeous new cookbook. Five-course meals composed with seasonal ingredients are sold-out events at Annemarie Ahearn’s...
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The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt Arts
Category Sponsor: L.L. Bean 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 festivals are...
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Swig of the Month
Blueberry Vodka Split Rock Distilling 16 Osprey Point Rd., Newcastle,207-563-2669 Why We Dig It It’s unnerving that most fruit-flavored vodkas are as clear as water. (Oranges are orange, raspberries...
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Where in Maine?
Can you name this lighthouse and the harbor it protects? A 16th-century Spanish galleon sails past a 19th-century lighthouse powered by 21st-century solar panels. That’s summer as usual for this...
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Down East Dispatches
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine Bowdoin College Grant West Township Retired Colonel Dante Bulli, one of two survivors of a 1963 B-52 bomber crash on Elephant...
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June 2017
Buy this issue Special Subscription Offer Download app Editor’s Note by Kathleen Fleury Expand To Read I’ve never set foot inside Big Al’s on Route 1 in Wiscasset, at least not that I can...
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