November 2019
Features Blight Snack A coalition of dedicated scientists and high-profile chefs wants to get invasive green crabs out of Maine’s waters and into your belly. By Kathryn Miles The Sportsman’s Alliances...
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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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Portland’s Best Happy Hours
Sure, plenty of Maine pubs do drink discounts, but Portland is the state’s undisputed capital of happy-hour variety, with watering holes for wine connoisseurs here, teetotalers there, and beer nerds...
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Every Maine Lighthouse Ranked
OUR CATEGORICAL (AND CATEGORICALLY TONGUE-IN-CHEEK) RUN-DOWN OF ALL 65 OF MAINE'S BELOVED COASTAL BEACONS.By Jesse Ellison, Will Grunewald, Brian Kevin, Frances Killea, Genevieve Morgan, Clark...
View ArticleWhere In Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Mount KineoWhere in Maine? September 2019 Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from September’s photo of Mount Kineo. In the late...
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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 The Yiddish Culture...
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Where In Maine?
Photograph by Benjamin Williamson The late, Maine-reared poet Al Poulin once lived here, a place he described in verse in 1972 as “this fish-shaped village of some ten or twenty fishermen.” That’s...
View ArticleJared Golden’s Favorite Place
The only freshman member of Maine’s four-person Congressional delegation, Jared Golden was elected to the U.S. Congress a year ago this month, the first federal rep to gain office under Maine’s...
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How Mainers Are Helping Other Mainers Prep for Winter
By Will GrunewaldPhotographs by Mark Fleming When the minister at his church in Cumberland asked Bruce Wildes if he could spare some firewood for an elderly woman who couldn’t afford to keep her...
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Uncle Maine
By Leath Tonino When I was growing up in Vermont, family trips to visit my Uncle Neil were sporadic. The drive to his place in Dover-Foxcroft, in northern-central Maine, was long, twisty, and, for a...
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The Perfect Fall Foliage Road Trip
THE PERFECT FALL FOLIAGE ROAD TRIP IS IN WESTERN MAINE AN AUTUMN RAMBLE THROUGH THE BACKWOODS AND BACK ROADS. A farm road in Grafton Notch, with Mount Hittie looking down. Photographs by Benjamin...
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George Smith is “Just More Reasonable” Now
Photographed by Tristan Spinski From his office at his home in Mount Vernon, George Smith can see through the trees to where Minnehonk Lake narrows into Hopkins Stream, which passes along the edge of...
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Van der Ven Studios
By Arielle Greenberg Photographs by Dave Waddell Simon van der Ven first came to Maine to work on a schooner when he was 21, fresh out of college. On one of his first days here, he found a piece of...
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Where to Find Maine’s Best Bagels
By Will Grunewald Photographs by Mark Fleming Bette Kral grew up in New Jersey. In 2000, she moved to Deer Isle. But first she learned how to boil and bake bagels, because as best she could tell, good...
View ArticleMaine-Made Gift Guide
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Meet the “Angry Beavers” Committed to Rumford’s Scrappy Ski Mountain
By Josh Christie Photographed by Gabe Souza Over in Rumford, the Angry Beavers have been busy. This summer, the all-volunteer corps of glade-cutters at Black Mountain of Maine ski resort has been...
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When 448 Asylum Seekers Came To Portland Last Summer, City Officials Called Her
By Michaela Cavallaro Photographed by Ryan David Brown Standing in a Portland freight elevator on a sunny Saturday morning, Mufalo Chitam has an urgent question on her mind: where are the trucks?...
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The Midcoast Animal Lover Who Can Trap 100 Stray Cats
By Willy Blackmore Photographed by Ryan David Brown Kendra Hubbard gets a lot of calls about cats. Lots of cats. “If someone tells me, I know we have 12 feral cats here, then I know they probably have...
View ArticlePaddling Together
By Susan Hand Shetterly I have read Henry David Thoreau’s account of his July 1857 trip with Joe Polis on the Allagash and the East Branch of the Penobscot at least three times, and this month, I...
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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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