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Provender Kitchen + Bar
The historic downtown space was once home to Cleonice, a James Beard Award semifinalist restaurant; pistachio-crusted duck breast is presented a la Jackson Pollock. Salt-roasted beets with buffalo...
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A cozy abode on Portland’s West End Every home has a cozy, tucked-away place — an upstairs reading nook, perhaps, or a sunny attic corner. Now imagine your whole house is that place. The circa-1830...
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A Winter Garden
By Susan Hand Shetterly Some time ago, in Prospect Harbor, my neighbors taught me that to live a good life at this exacting, generous shore, a person had to learn to love hard work and independence....
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Peak Season
PEAK SEASON PHOTOGRAPHED BY Chris Bennett Andrew Drummond Chris Shane Jamie Walter Skier Andrew Drummond takes in a view of Katahdin’s Hamlin Ridge. Photographed by Chris Shane. In winter, northern...
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Snow Farm
All day and all night, the snowmakers of Sunday River Resort keep the fluffy stuff blasting. By Jaed Coffin Photographs by Gabe Souza On a frigid evening, a team of Sunday River snowmakers shuffles...
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In Good Faith
In Good Faith President Bush and Democratic Senator George J. Mitchell had Maine in common — along with a willingness to make principled compromises. By Senator George J. Mitchell Photograph by...
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Perf-egg-tion
Croissant maestro Chris Deutsch honed his craft at stops in DC, New Orleans, and, of course, Paris, where the Belleville neighborhood lent his new endeavor a name. He wound up on Munjoy Hill because...
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Maine Dispatches
Shutterstock | Tawan Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine Westbrook National media flipped out over a massive, rotating disc of ice that formed at a bend in the...
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Jennifer Rooks’s Favorite Place
Jennifer Rooks Kettle Cove, Cape Elizabeth Looking back, Maine Public Radio host Jennifer Rooks recalls a series of connections that led her to settle in Maine — and one improbably lucky break that...
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The Best Medicine
Since its inception, Camp Sunshine has served more than 50,000 campers and family members from all 50 states and 27 different countries.The Best MedicineCamp Sunshine brings the magic of the Maine...
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March 2019
Editor’s Note by Brian Kevin Expand To Read Last year, Captain Richie Walker was gracious enough to invite me onto his lobsterboat, Sea Glass, for a spin around Penobscot Bay and a short primer on his...
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How Will a Poet Govern Maine?
Agnes Bushell was tired. It was a Saturday in mid-May 1975, and for months, she’d been editing a book of poetry, a thin volume she called Balancing Act: A Book of Poems by Ten Maine Women. The work...
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Maine with a Scandinavian Accent
Two places are at the heart of Solvejg Makaretz’s playful designs, which she prints onto everything from serving trays to silk scarves: Sweden, where she grew up, shapes her clean, minimalist...
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This time of year, the number of companies producing plays is pruned way back, but the choices are bolder, more varied, and more ambitious — just what we need to lure us out of cultural hibernation....
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Our Favorite Letter
OUR FAVORITE LETTERWhere in Maine? January 2019 Danforth Street, PortlandPhotograph by Benjamin Williamson Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our...
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Pipe Dreams
Portland’s behemoth organ sounds better than ever after a $2.5 million restoration that wrapped in 2014. Can Portland’s municipal organist make the Kotzschmar big again? By Joel Crabtree Photographs...
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Maine Winter Wellness
If only for the throngs of from-aways who have long come here in search of it, Maine has always been synonymous with wellness, that nebulous intersection of physical health and spiritual harmony. “To...
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Ax Throwing
Handle With CareWhat’s more therapeutic than hurling a razor-sharp ax? Not much, so long as you’re careful.By Brian Kevin Of all the trends that made it into this package, I got the easiest one to...
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Pointe, Counterpointe
Maine State Ballet and Portland Ballet put on two of their most popular — and very different — shows. Maine State Ballet Performance: Cinderella Style: Classical, with Sergei Prokofiev’s 1945 score for...
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