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Motley Crew
Artists of all stripes play Belfast’s All Roads Music Festival. Maine’s music scene has its aspiring indie-rockers and wannabe pop stars, along with its established headliners like rapper Spose and...
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Explore the Downeast Passage
SPONSORED CONTENTExplore the Downeast PassageThe crowds may head for Mount Desert Island, but there’s more of Acadia’s splendor — plus top-notch food, art, and culture — waiting just up the coast....
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Great Maine Scavenger Hunt: History
The Great Maine Scavenger HuntHISTORYCATEGORY SPONSOR RENYS Wish Renys a Happy Anniversary How’s this for history? Maine’s homegrown department store celebrates its 70th anniversary this year. After...
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Where the Buffs Roam
An opening at New System Exhibitions, a nonprofit studio and gallery in Portland, which showcases local emerging artists. Courtesy of Henry Austin (New System Exhibitions). We asked 10 art-world...
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The Shape of Light
Morringello in her Deer Isle workshop. We asked Modernmaine’s Julie Morringello about bending unexpected materials into vessels for illumination. As told to Tina Fischer Photographs by Michael D....
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Timothy Simons’s Favorite Place
Timothy Simons Hello Hello Books, Rockland On Veep, HBO’s Emmy-winning comedy about a narcissistic vice president and her inner circle of enablers, Timothy Simons plays Jonah Ryan, a blundering White...
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Fancy Feast
Maine’s Modernist Pantry helps democratize avant-garde cooking. By Will Grunewald Photographs by Derek Bissonnette One of Janie Wang’s favorite ingredients is meat glue. It sounds gross, she knows,...
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Maine Dispatches
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine Coplin Plantation Bonnie Holding won the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife’s annual Legendary Maine Guide Award,...
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Great Maine Scavenger Hunt: Arts & Artisans
The Great Maine Scavenger HuntARTS & ARTISANS Photographed by Corey Templeton. Admire Luminous Arbor The gordian five-way intersection known as Woodfords Corner is at last out from under the $5...
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Necessity begat this delizioso, down-home dinner. A Naples chef invented spaghetti alla puttanesca in the 1950s, so the story goes, to satisfy a ravenous late-night crowd, heaping together what few...
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June 2019
Editor’s Note by Brian Kevin Expand To Read Before I moved here, a decade ago, the Maine of my imagining was much more lakes, moose, and woods than ocean, lobsters, and rocky coast. Maybe that’s...
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Network Connectivity
Photograph by Benjamin Williamson Maine’s one-stop shop for outdoors adventure gets an upgrade. By Will Grunewald Maine has trails aplenty, from coast to mountains to north woods, managed by a jumble...
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Our Favorite Letter
OUR FAVORITE LETTERWhere in Maine? April 2019 Sand BeachPhotograph by Benjamin Williamson Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter...
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Company Men
“My dad has the knowledge, and I have the energy,” Matt Barter says. “Put us together, and we can get a lot done.” Father-son artists Philip and Matt Barter rebuild a factory town. By Will Grunewald...
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Great Maine Scavenger Hunt: Doing Good
The Great Maine Scavenger HuntDOING GOOD Photographed by Cait Bourgault. Get a New Perspective on Acadia National Park Three mornings a week, from June through October, dozens of volunteers huddle up...
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Where in Maine
Can you name this rugged coastal preserve? Hikers who wend their way to these headland cliffs are rewarded with views of a coastal landscape essentially unaltered from what French explorer Samuel de...
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Once More Across the Lake
ONCE MOREACROSSTHELAKEPond ponderer Jennifer Finney Boylan offers a local’s tour of the Belgrade Lakes — and a heartfelt ode to living where others vacation.PHOTOGRAPHED BY MICHAEL D. WILSON Ifire up...
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When Harry Met Sally Met the Midcoast
A very Maine-y rom-com — and three other new summer reads with the Pine Tree State at their heart. Out June 25 from Ballantine Books Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes As National Public Radio’s...
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Eaux
ABOVE: Wedge salad with tasso (Cajun smoked pork), shrimp gumbo, hanger steak with dressed greens and creole mustard aioli, Jambalaya fried rice, Chilled brussels sprouts (obscured) with cider...
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