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Puffins, Pete Seeger, 23 Tons of Marble, and Down East
What do these things have to do with each other? We had no idea either, until we heard from sculptor Gary Sussman. In the late 1970s, Gary Sussman served as dean of students at Maine’s Skowhegan School...
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Fritter Away
Spend your time in the kitchen dealing deliciously with that abundance of squash. In July, a variety of green and yellow squashes are rapidly growing fat and long under the camouflage of giant leaves...
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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. Surrounded by the crowberry beds of Western Head in...
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What’s in a Picture
Auto-race enthusiasts cheer drivers zooming toward the Old Orchard Beach pier in one of the hundreds of American Automobile Association–sanctioned events held during the early 20th century. Motor...
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School’s (Not) Out for Summer
Just because students leave for vacation doesn’t mean Maine’s colleges and universities shut down. All summer long, they still provide cool cultural programming for the rest of us. Here are four...
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Good Things From Maine
Good Things from Maine Pop-Up Market Good Things from Maine is a small market of Maine-made goods located at our offices in Rockport, ME. June 26 – August 11 Vendors: AandE Stoneworks Betsy McLellan...
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Christina and Me
This July marks the centennial of Andrew Wyeth’s birth, with exhibitions across the country commemorating the iconic American painter. Novelist Christina Baker Kline has spent the last three years...
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July 2017
Buy this issue Special Subscription Offer Download app Editor’s Note by Kathleen Fleury Expand To Read It’s that time again, when our staff and contributors get together to talk about all the...
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View the Latest Issue
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Upta Camp
I came late to the Maine camp tradition. When I was a kid, my family would sometimes spend a summer week on Frye Island in Sebago Lake or Long Lake in Naples. We liked these areas enough to make repeat...
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Mess with a Classic
Orthodoxy isn’t the point when world-class performers play Mount Vernon’s Independence Day pops concert. In 1995, Jerry Slavet founded From the Top, the public-radio program that gives precocious,...
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Holy House!
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Talkin’ ’Bout Their Generation
Sponsored Content: Highland Green Highland Green, A 55-and-up community in Topsham, fosters active lifestyles — and a rock-and-roll band. A few years ago, when Barb Combs and her husband started to...
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From our Archives July 1994
Stock Photos See more from this issue! Cover by Brian Vanden Brink From “Just Say Moo” by Virginia Thorndike in our July 1994 issue. Photos by Mark Jenson. These are portraits of prize cows and...
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Best of MaineHome & Style
We spend all year thinking about it, a couple of months arguing over it, and countless hours tabulating your votes for it. Here is our list of Maine’s best Home & Style for 2017. How’d your...
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World’s Best Lobster Roll Final Round Judges
At this year’s Down East Lobster Roll Festival 250 VIP ticket holders will determine which chefs advance to the final round in the World’s Best Lobster Roll Competition. Once they’ve narrowed it down,...
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Making Art, Making a Life
Midcoast “nature people” Kate and Jonathan Mess push boundaries in the gallery, keep it real at home. By Edgar Allen Beem Photographed by Molly Haley Like countless artists before them, Jonathan and...
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Out of the Blue
And into the black? A pair of winemaking buddies is betting on Maine blueberry bubbly. By Tina Fischer Photographed by Brian Fitzgerald Pffffft! A deep-purple cloud spritzes from the bottle in Michael...
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Town-Gown Reboot
A century ago, Waterville helped bail out a struggling Colby College. Can Colby return the favor? By Jesse Ellison Earlier this year, city officials and Colby College representatives gathered to break...
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Best of Maine Arts & Media
We spend all year thinking about it, a couple of months arguing over it, and countless hours tabulating your votes for it. Here is our list of Maine’s best travel & play for 2017. How’d your...
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