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Wild Ride
Harvesting rice in Maine waters is a slow, sticky job, and it’s reconnecting Native peoples with a traditional source of nourishment. By Amber Kapiloff Prepared wild rice has a nutty, toasty flavor....
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Friday Night Lite
Maine high-school football teams need to X some Os this season. Joel Crabtree The varsity blues have afflicted some of Maine’s high-school pigskin squads lately, with declining student enrollments and...
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Going Public
In January 2016, police arrested “American Pie” singer Don McLean after his then-wife, Patrisha, called them to the couple’s Camden home. The incident led to six domestic-violence–related charges, to...
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Saving Birdland
SPONSORED CONTENT Arctic Tern Bald Eagle Northern Parula Saving Birdland By conserving more than 150,000 acres for wildlife and recreation, Maine Coast Heritage Trust helps ensure that Maine remains...
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Stunning Maine Photography
BEN'S PICKSOur photographer Benjamin Williamson highlights some of his favorite shots from around the state. Center of GravityPHOTOGRAPHED BY BENJAMIN WILLIAMSON This is my playground, my sandbox. More...
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Healthy Foundation
A cancer survivor and her oncology-nurse sister create a line of natural beauty products. By Bridget M. Burns Photograph by Heidi Kirn When Sarah Kelly lost her hair to chemotherapy in 2015, she...
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A Guide to Maine Birding
A DILETTANTE'S GUIDE TO THE FINE FEATHERED WORLD OFMAINE BIRDINGBy Nick Lund, Brian Kevin, Maggie Nevens, and Willy Blackmore If you’ve ever caught your breath to hear a loon call up at camp, if you’ve...
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Tough Spudder
Presque Isle high schooler Ian MacKinnon digs into a time-honored, dirty-job tradition. By Joel Crabtree Photographs by Hailey Crabtree The concept is foreign to folks not from Aroostook County: an...
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Maine Dispatches
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine Portland The Boston Celtics organization announced it would buy the independently owned Maine Red Claws basketball team....
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Easy Does It
Photograph by Arielle Greenberg Our ongoing search for pissah fashion led us to Marcia Heath, writer, pianist, and rowing buff from Waldo. By Arielle Greenberg Continental divide: Time I spent in...
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Class Acts
SPONSORED CONTENT GSA outdoor leadership class rafting on the Kennebec River. Class ActsAt George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill, education continues beyond the classroom walls. Growing up in Blue Hill,...
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Legends of the Fall
Who’s mapping Maine’s autumnal splendor? The Madam of Maples is Gale Ross’s nickname around the Augusta headquarters of the Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry. She’s retired from...
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October 2019
Editor’s Note by Brian Kevin Expand To Read A couple of autumns back, my family and I camped in Newry in October. I had never before hiked in Grafton Notch State Park, only driven through it here and...
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Where in Maine
Photograph by John K. Putnam Can you name this waterfall and the bridge that’s framing it? The lovely, 40-foot waterfall cascading behind this stone bridge is named for a murderer. In the late 18th...
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Shrub Hub
Photograph by Mark Fleming Want to slake your thirst like a colonist? Try a shrub, bub. Fruity drinking-vinegars all the rage in turn-of-the-18th-century Maine, shrubs are enjoying a comeback driven...
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Whole Yacht of Love
A renowned boatbuilder reimagines a piece of Maine history. By Brian Kevin Photographs by Peter Ralston This summer, not long after Rockport Marine owner Taylor Allen presided over the launch of the...
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Burnt Out?
Why Isn't Starks More Excited About Legal Pot? Starks, Maine, is a quiet, lovely little farm town that is also the long-reputed heart of the state’s marijuana culture. So how come nobody there seems...
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Stone Designs & Granite Garden Gallery
Dust flies as Obie Buell saws into a chunk of Sullivan Gray granite. By Virginia M. Wright Photographs by Mark fleming Obadiah Buell grew up in the thin, scruffy woods of north Sullivan in a house his...
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The Cruise Ships are Coming
THE CRUISE SHIPS ARE COMINGLove ’em or hate ’em, floating resorts are bringing boatloads of day-trippers to your favorite Maine towns.by WILL GRUNEWALD, JOEL CRABTREE, AND JOYCE KRYSZAK ILLUSTRATION BY...
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