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Prints of the Barnyard
Love the Common Ground Country Fair’s annual poster designs? Thank the rural jurors who select them. “Chickens are very classic,” notes Common Ground Country Fair director April Boucher, who recently...
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Collector’s Items
Found text — from book spines, scrap paper, and more — turns up in pieces like “Pushing Open All the Windows,” Abbie Read has a passion for found objects — and books and paper and paintings. This...
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Where in Maine?
Can you identify this scenic overlook and the lake down below? If the name of that distant lake is any indication, you’re as likely to run into a moose leaf-peeping at this highway overlook as you are...
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Gather Ye Zucchinis
Perhaps, like us, you’ve reached that late-summer threshold where you’re swamped by squash, deluged with daikons, overcome by onions, and cursing your past self’s overzealous garden planning. Don’t let...
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October 2017
Buy this issue Special Subscription Offer Download app Editor’s Note by Kathleen Fleury Expand To Read Here’s one of those classic fall moments, enjoying Owls Head State Park with my kids and my...
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Romancing the Stone
Home Design By Sarah Stebbins As a kid, my brother, Ethan, was an escape artist. When he was two, he absconded from our Buxton backyard, kicking off a daylong search that involved the police and fire...
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Fall in Maine:Events You Can’t Miss
Apple pie contest entry by Lee Hughes. Photo courtesy of the Bethel Area Chamber of Commerce. Is there any better place to celebrate the autumn than in Maine’s western mountains? Against a blazing...
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Apple of His Eye
Bob Sewall’s Lincolnville farm — Maine’s oldest organic apple orchard — is his life’s passion and a wellspring of innovation. By Will Grunewald Photographed by Molly Haley Bob Sewall, owner of...
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All Hail the Curry King!
Arif Shaikh has designs on a midcoast curry empire. Photographed by Drew Cornall The coronation took place on a cold, clear day last winter. Alone, Arif Shaikh went out back of his tiny apartment and,...
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Put Maine on Your Coffee Table
Three new photo books explore vastly different aspects of the state’s character. By Jesse Ellison Handcrafted Maine Katy Kelleher and Greta Rybus Kelleher and Rybus — the book’s writer and...
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Quiet Splendor
Western Maine’s panoramic brilliance attracts all the traffic, but the coastal forests, postcard villages, and vivid blueberry barrens of Down East have their own laid-back luster. Join photographer...
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2017 Art of Giving Gala
Free admission! October 26 at the Stroudwater Lodge in Westbrook — Join us for the 4th annual Art of Giving Gala to celebrate Northbridge’s Artists in Residence program and to support Ticket to Ride....
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Camden International Film Festival
Documentary film can be a powerful tool for building communities and social movements, and this year, as part of the Camden International Film Festival’s Points North Impact program, they will be...
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Passive-House Pioneer
Building Maine passive houses you can heat by baking cookies. When he first heard about Passivhaus, Germany’s rigorous energy-efficiency building standard, architect Matthew O’Malia thought, “That’s...
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Reade All About It
Checking in with Maine’s “serendipitous” media mogul, Reade Brower. “I’ve always just cobbled together a living from about 18 different directions,” Reade Brower told us recently, when we sat down for...
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Biscuits & Company
By Will Grunewald Photographed by Greta Rybus Biscuits & Company 25 Alfred St., Biddeford. 207-710-2333. When she opened Biscuits & Company, Stacy Cooper wanted to convey just how much she...
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Our Favorite Letter
Where in Maine? August 2017 Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from August. Have you ever sat on a picnic bench on a beautiful...
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United Farmers Market of Maine!
Our mini-guide to Belfast’s mega-ambitious year-round bazaar. Early every Saturday at the United Farmers Market of Maine, a block off Belfast’s Main Street, local growers, bakers, cooks, and makers...
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Boots for Your Boots
Photograph by Benjamin Williamson Bigfoot of Maine. 877-778-4466. $34.95. You’ve just stepped inside with the first of several armloads from the woodpile. Your boots are muddy. Do you: (A) Sigh, put...
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