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We All Scream
For super-creamy strawberry ice cream! By Annemarie Ahearn Photograph Benjamin Williamson To make ice cream, you need custard. To make custard, you need patience, precision, and a little faith that...
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Trash to Treasure
The first time she lived in Belfast, about 20 years ago, Kate McLeod had a house in the village. Some evenings, as dusk settled on her neighborhood, she’d watch sardine-factory workers cross the...
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Allan Monga’s Favorite Place
Deering High School, Portland Allan Monga Allan Monga’s story is so quintessentially American, it’s little wonder it went viral earlier this year. Monga arrived in the U.S. from Zambia last summer,...
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Things to Do in Maine
THINGS TO DO IN MAINE DOWN EASTFood Truck FridayROCKPORT JULY 13 MAINE STATE MUSIC THEATRESaturday Night FeverBRUNSWICK JULY 18–AUGUST 4 GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUNSongo River Queen 80’s Party Booze...
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Maine’s 10 Must-Hike Mountain Trails
Maine's 10 Must-Hike Mountain TrailsBrought to you by the badass hikers of the Alpine Women Collective.Text by Lindsey Moran Photos by Cait Bourgault and the women of AWC When I first got into hiking,...
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Oyster Bed?
Paul Sampson’s first oyster platter was born of necessity. The woodworker used to cradle the oysters he served at skeet-shooting and yard-work parties in the ridges and troughs on his tailgate, but his...
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Ordinary Birds
by Franklin Burroughs I brought Roger Tory Peterson’s Field Guide to the Birds with me when we moved to Maine in 1968. Its preface includes his life list of all the species he had seen in the U.S. east...
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The Maine Lakes 2018 Power Rankings
The Maine Lakes 2018Power RankingsPhotograph by DarylAnn LeonardBy Caitlin GilmetSPONSORED BY Why should sports mags and websites have all the fun with annual power rankings? We like performing expert...
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Roughing It?
By Will Grunewald Photograph by Michael D. Wilson A decade ago, Jennifer Scism was running a Michelin-starred restaurant in New York. But along the way she married a Mainer, got tired of the grind,...
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Drifters Wife
Once a tiny restaurant crammed inside a wine shop, this creative East Bayside bistro now has bigger digs and a more elaborate menu to match. By Joe Ricchio Photographs by Douglas Merriam Drifters Wife...
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Maine Island Vacation Giveaway
Maine Island Vacation Giveawaywith Maine Public and Down EastENTER CONTEST BELOW One winner will receive a Weekend Island Getaway for two, July 27-28 The package includes: One night private room with...
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Maine Dispatches
Shutterstock | Bravissimos Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine Lovell The family of the late Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme donated his 1967 ski boat...
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August 2018
Editor’s Note by Kathleen Fleury Expand To Read I have a confession: I take Acadia National Park for granted. There, I’ve admitted it. The rest of the Down East editorial staff makes multiple visits a...
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Where in Maine
Can you name this pleasantly pastoral isle? This uninhabited island — long, narrow, and scooped in the middle — evidently takes its name from the seagoing vessel that early European visitors thought it...
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Gridlocked
Will the state’s latest plan for Wiscasset solve a traffic nightmare or ruin a town? By Edgar Allen Beem This April, a couple of months before the long lines of cars and trucks started settling in for...
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Dawnland
Author Porter Fox spent two years traversing the U.S.–Canada boundary, looking to better understand the wild, nebulous borderland that rarely makes the news. In this excerpt from his new book...
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“Who the Hell Stays in a Town Like This?”
Illustration by Jakob Hinrichs One of the co-creators of Hulu’s new Castle Rock on yet another Maine mill town that’s down and out. Waaaay out. It’s hard times in Castle Rock. The closure of the mills...
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Our Favorite Letter
OUR FAVORITE LETTERWhere in Maine? June 2018 FRIENDSHIPPhotographed by Harry Lichtman Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from...
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Things to Do in Maine
THINGS TO DO IN MAINE GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUNSongo River Queen 80’s Party Booze CruiseNAPLES AUGUST 11, 6:30–9 P.M. MAINE FARMLAND TRUSTAgrarian ActsJEFFERSON AUGUST 26, 3:30–7 P.M. COOK'S LOBSTER...
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Summer of Speed
Palace Playland’s newest coaster brings the heat. Palace Playland owner Joel Golder had to buy the parking lot next door just to accommodate his newest toy, the Sea Viper roller coaster. Its...
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