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August 2019
Editor’s Note by Brian Kevin Expand To Read As I write this, I am doing summer pretty hard. I’m on a lawn chair in my backyard, in Hope, sitting beneath a screened-in awning that my family sometimes...
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Studio 412 & fourTWELVE
Fashion designer Beth Bowley carries a Boyfriend Shirt to the rack at fourTwelve boutique. By Jesse Ellison Photographs by Gabe Souza Beth Bowley remembers exactly the dress that made her want to be...
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Things to Do in Maine
THINGS TO DO IN MAINE Maine’s 10 Must-Hike Mountain Trails Route 1 Road Trip Great Maine Scavenger Hunt Acadia Away From the Crowds Down East AdventuresCUSTOM MAINE TRIPS Visit our calendar to find the...
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Stunning Maine Photography
BEN'S PICKSOur photographer Benjamin Williamson highlights some of his favorite shots from around the state. Pemaquid Point Milky WayPHOTOGRAPHED BY MICHAEL BLANCHETTE Having a vision is important....
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Our Favorite Letter
OUR FAVORITE LETTERWhere in Maine? June 2019 Boot Head PreservePhotograph by Laurence Parent Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter...
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Premium Channels, Minibar, In-Room Poetry
The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance helps promote the project and secure reprint permissions. The 2019 lineup comprises esteemed poets past (Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Kate Barnes) and present...
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Wild Idea
Newbie distiller Jeremy Howard’s family grows some 160 acres of blueberries in Hope. A Maine blueberry grower walks into a bar. Willy Blackmore Photograph by Gabe Souza A couple of years ago, Jeremy...
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Paws for Peace
SPONSORED CONTENT Paws for PeaceMaine veterans get a boost from service dogs and volunteers from Highland Green, Topsham’s 55-and-up residential community. Embrace A Vet participants, with their...
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Where in Maine?
Can you name this once disputed, now protected preserve? This wooded promontory marks the edge of one of the country’s most historically embattled tracts, a parcel that changed hands 18 times between...
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Instant Classic
Ryan McCaskey’s Chicago restaurant earned two Michelin stars for its fancy Maine-inspired meals. Now, the chef is bringing a dressed-down spinoff of his big-city eatery to small-town Maine. Old turf,...
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Born on the 26th of July
The state’s bicentennial is next year, but Maine declared its independence 200 years ago this month. The Massachusetts Bay Colony took over the Province of Maine in the mid-1600s, and Mainers always...
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Southern Maine Beach Guide
By Brian Kevin, Bridget M. Burns, and Jen Hazard Beach umbrella photo by Michael D. Wilson By Brian Kevin, Bridget M. Burns, and Jen Hazard Beach umbrella photo by Michael D. Wilson IF NOTHING SAYS...
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Sam Calagione’s Favorite Place
Dogfish Head, Southport Sam Calagione moved to New York after college. He tended bar and took writing classes, thinking he’d make a career in letters. Then, another possibility formed in his mind....
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Sign Language
Freeway farceurs: from left to right, Colby Fortier-Brown, Luke Lorrimer, Joyce Taylor, Adam Grotton, Meg Lane, Melissa Zelenkewich, Stephen Landry, and Michael Cole, of MaineDOT’s Office of Creative...
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Pops Art
By Will Grunewald Photograph by Derek Bissonnette Abby Freethy started making meltingly attractive popsicles as a side side hustle, selling them from her Greenville-based food truck. Then, she retired...
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Return to the Goodly River
The Goodly RiverPHOTOS AND TEXT BY TRISTAN SPINSKITwenty years ago, a motley band of guides, foresters, and conservationists put in on northern Maine’s remote upper St. John River to sketch out an...
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Beach Baubles
Bracelets and rings from Woolwich’s Circle Stone Designs are the product of metalsmith Anita Roelz’s beachcombing talents (and elbow grease). Some Maine jewelers take the phrase “precious stones”...
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Treasure This
Find everything from milk cans to Jamie Wyeth prints in old-fashioned Cornish, where even the shops have past lives. By Tina Fischer The back roads of the Ossipee Valley are quiet and pastoral,...
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Knight Moves
A New York playwright’s reimagining of Arthurian legend premieres at a Deer Isle jelly maker’s sculpture garden. By Will Grunewald ► Prologue Since the ’90s, Peter Beerits has made found-object...
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Nowhere Land
A SPECK OF A VILLAGE AT THE NORTHERNMOST TIP OF MAINE, ESTCOURT STATION IS (SOMETIMES LITERALLY) THE PLACE YOU CAN'T GET TO FROM HERE.by VIRGINIA M. WRIGHT photographed by MICHAEL D. WILSONNOWHERE...
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