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Bad Buoys
By day, Danny McCormick works with developmentally disabled adults. By night, he takes to the ring as DangerKid. A new wave of Maine wrestlers puts a beatdown on the Pine Tree State’s reputation as a...
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Addie Peet Design
Peet’s banner flags are printed with designs she hand-cuts onto lino blocks. She uses her grandfather’s antique printing press, which she played with as a kid. Addie Peet’s sunlit studio is a one-woman...
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Funk Tradition
<strong>Oxbow Native/Wild</strong> has all the earthiness and funkiness of spontaneous fermentation, but this iteration, aged in blueberry wine barrels, has a subtle extra vinous...
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My Favorite Place
Tobey’s Grocery, South China Ryan McCaskey Home Chicago, with a summer place on Deer Isle Restaurant Acadia, on Chicago’s Near South Side, est. 2012 Awards Two Michelin Stars, James Beard Award...
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Where’s your favorite place to watch the night sky?
In our April 2018 issue we’re asking people, “Where is your favorite spot to watch the night sky?” We’ve gotten a few responses so far, but please tell us yours. Thanks for sharing your #mainelife pics...
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Sweet Season
“There is in some parts of New England a kind of tree whose juice that weeps out its incision,” English chemist Robert Boyle wrote in 1663, “if it is permitted slowly to exhale away the superfluous...
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Once More to the City
ONCE MORE TO THE CITYLooking out on Portland’s Exchange Street in the 1970s, during the early years of the Old Port Festival. Photograph by Maury Colton. This piece originally appeared in the March...
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Sap Tap Throwback
Artist and illustrator Jodie Neal inked one of our favorite early covers 60 years ago this month. The Aroostook County native had watched her cousins hauling maple sap with shoulder yokes, and she...
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How to Do a Maine Beach Lobster Bake
HOW TO DO A MAINE BEACH LOBSTER BAKEA Maine summer day and some lobsters are (almost) all you need for the perfect outdoor feast. Maine Beach Lobster BakeBY MAINE SPORT OUTFITTERS Make a fire on the...
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SuperOrono-ism
Self Portrait by Orono Noguchi The internet’s buzziest band/mysterious avant-garde sound collective is fronted by a recent and disarmingly pleasant Maine prep school grad. From our October 2017 issue....
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An Artist Called Jamie
AN ARTIST CALLED JAMIE Jamie Wyeth. Photograph by Paul Seligman. ~ FROM OUR ARCHIVES ~By Marge Cook Issue cover by Stell Shevis March 1968 Jamie Wyeth seldom takes a day off, but he likes to disappear...
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Modern Cabin, Deep Roots
As kids, Matti and Chris summered on opposite shores of Belgrade’s Great Pond, in camps that had been in their families for generations. Today, Matti’s brother owns their family’s place. So the couple...
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2018 Acadia Cruise
2018 Maine Summer Vacation — Sailing aboard a historic schooner Explore Acadia National Park and the surrounding area aboard the fully restored 1920s luxury racing schooner Ladona. Enjoy classic Maine...
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Maine Island Vacation Giveaway
Maine Island Vacation Giveawaywith Allagash Brewing and Down East BROUGHT TO YOU BY Founded in Portland, Maine, Allagash Brewing Company strives to make the best Belgian-inspired beers in the world....
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Collections Dept.
Three new books with unique connections to Maine to add to your reading list. The Price of the Haircut (Algonquin, March 13) is Bowdoin professor Brock Clarke’s third short-story collection. Clarke’s...
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Foreside Finds
Kittery’s peppy pocket neighborhood has shops as eclectic as its chow. Some of Maine’s best restaurants — Anju Noodle Bar, the Black Birch, Anneke Jans, and Tulsi, to name a few — have opened in...
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Down East Lobster Roll World Championship
Down East Lobster Roll World Championship When: Saturday, July 7th from noon to 4pm Doors open at 11:30am Where: Brick South at Thompson’s Point, Portland, ME Join us in celebrating Maine’s favorite...
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Serendib
A shareable meal of lamb meatball curry, palak paneer, and butternut-squash and beetroot curries. A husband-and-wife team spices up the Ellsworth, Maine restaurant scene with their lip-tingling Sri...
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Growth Rings
By Franklin Burroughs Some random geezer stops and peers into your face. You peer back. Something familiar about him. Are you? Frank? Mark? Yes, you both see it now — you resemble your former selves as...
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White Wedding
Illustrated by Christine Mitchell Adams. To prepare for married life, she’s looking to one of Maine’s great love stories. By Bobbie Ford I was having coffee in my kitchen the other day when I looked...
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