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The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt Events
Category Sponsor: LAUNCH! A Maritime Festival 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),...
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Peace, Love, and Tofu
Tofu is a passion product for the couple behind Maine’s only commercial soy beanery. By Jesse Ellison Photographed by Gabe Souza Like many a Mainer, Jeff Wolovitz starts his day putting on Grundéns...
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Down East Photo Caption Contest
Photograph by Derrick Z. Jackson for our June 2017 issue. Caption this photo from our June 2017 issue. We’ll choose our favorite and send the winner a 2018 Down East wall calendar and a one-year...
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Queen of the Kennebec
Rafting pioneer Suzie Hockmeyer’s wild, 41-year ride. By Virginia M. Wright Photography by Tony Luong Suzie Hockmeyer steps onto the coffee table and plops into the green-leather glider balanced on its...
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Down East Food Cruise
Captain J. R. and I found ourselves out on North Haven a month ago and decided to pay our friend Adam Campbell of North Haven Oyster Co. a visit. We reminisced about last summer’s oyster and Allagash...
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What’s in a Picture
Early one morning in 1853, on a stagecoach from Bangor, Henry David Thoreau caught his first glimpse of Moosehead Lake, noting “a suitably wild-looking sheet of water . . . with mountains on each side...
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No Second Fiddle
Folk trio Lula Wiles brings its breezy vocal harmonizing and sharp picking, bowing, and plucking back to Maine for this summer’s Kingfield Pops. By Joel Crabtree Singing and songwriting trio Lula Wiles...
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Mr. Lighthouse
Bob Trapani Jr. carries the torch for Maine’s beloved-but-antiquated seaside beacons in the GPS era. Late one afternoon in the old keeper’s house at Owls Head Light, with billows of fog drifting in and...
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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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The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt Family
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World’s Best Lobster Roll Semi-Finalists
We had dozens of chefs, restaurants, food trucks, and vendors from all over Maine and the country enter the World’s Best Lobster Roll competition. With the help of some of our festival sponsors the...
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The Mystery of Maine Mystery Writers
We live in one of the least homicidal, most neighborly places in the country. Why has crime fiction become our de facto state literary genre? By Jaed Coffin A few years ago, my English brother-in-law —...
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Fringe Benefits
Four shows not to miss at this year’s PortFringe Theater Festival. Hard to believe that Portland, Maine’s fringiest town, didn’t host its own fringe festival until six years ago. This year’s PortFringe...
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Resetting Sails
SPONSORED CONTENT Each Sea Bags sail trade preserves memories, authenticity, and the environment. Ben Ford traveled light when he moved to Maine from the San Francisco Bay area in 1995, but there was...
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Cherries, Baby
A classic French dessert combines fresh cherries with a yummy, dense custard. Migrant birds know precisely the moment the cherries on the tree outside our cooking school are sweet enough to eat, and...
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Our Favorite Letter
Where in Maine? April 2017 Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from April. A beloved international view: the Mulholland Point...
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The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt Landmarks
Category Sponsor: Down East 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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Forward to the Past
If you are not automatically redirected to the story, click here: http://mainehomes.com/forward-to-the-past/ The post Forward to the Past appeared first on Down East.
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A Moving Essay
Editor in chief Kathleen Fleury on resettling in Maine — and why you too should take the leap. Illustration by Christine Mitchell Adams I remember the moment when I knew I’d be moving back to Maine. I...
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Oyster Sauce Recipes
Oyster Sauce Recipes from Chef Anna Miller A special part of the annual Down East Food Cruise is the unique opportunity for guests (and us) to chat with aquaculture expert Adam Campbell of North Haven...
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