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Listening to 130-Year-Old Passamaquoddy Recordings
By Will GrunewaldPhotographed by Kevin Bennett In 1890, anthropologist Jesse Walter Fewkes lugged an Edison phonograph to Calais, near the Passamaquoddy’s Indian Township and Pleasant Point...
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Harrington Three lobstermen spotted a young buck drifting in frigid waters 5 miles from the coast. They pulled the deer aboard by its antlers and fur, detoured back to shore, and dropped it off at a...
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A Photo Tribute to Maine’s Ice-Fishing Heritage
Above: JP Paradis, visiting from North Carolina, uses an auger to reopen a hole that had frozen shut overnight. Like generations before them, ice fishermen across Maine take to the frozen lakes this...
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Maine Stuff We’re Loving This Month
Laceypots 70 Merrill St., Portland. 207-450-5767. Lacey Goodrich’s cheery, colorful ceramics always make me smile. “It’s all about joy,” Goodrich says. “I only work when I’m feeling happy.” Polka dots...
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Features Hard Water Heritage We went shanty-hopping on Aroostook County’s Long Lake during the state’s largest ice-fishing derby. The bite is on! Photographed By Michael D. Wilson Braaap-ers’ Delight...
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Maine Is Their Playground
There are any number of ways one might be expected to celebrate an eightieth birthday — throw a party, take a trip, go out to dinner. If you’re Lois Hatch, you walk 26.2 miles from Quoddy Head State...
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With its long winters and rugged terrain, you might think Maine is an impossible place to grow flowers, fruits, and vegetables from seed. But think again. “It just means we have to be smarter and...
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Visit Maine’s Only Chainsaw Museum
Scroll through for a look at some of Pelletier’s collection. By Will GrunewaldPhotographed by Michael D. Wilson The oldest chainsaw in Louie Pelletier’s collection was driven by air pressure, for...
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Can You Name This Maine Mystery Spot?
The world’s largest manufacturer of frozen potato products operates a french-fry processing plant in the farm town that’s home to this barn. The plant is one of two major employers, both of which owe...
View ArticleA Tower Outage on Deboullie Mountain
By Will Grunewald Fire towers, to woodsy types, are a bit like lighthouses: no longer manned, but still possessed of a mystique of solitude, duty, and hardiness. Across the country, preservationists...
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Home on the Range
By Susan Hand Shetterly Within these woods of tall white pines, firs, spruces, and some oaks and red maples, my house sits in a small clearing, a bright round bowl full of sunlight. The casement...
View ArticleWhere in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Sunday River Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from December’s photo of Sunday River. Winter Sundays in the ’70s were spent in...
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Reviving a Lost Native Art
By Melissa LizottePhotographed by Tristan Spinski In the early 1600s, French colonizers in what’s now northern Maine and Atlantic Canada wrote admiringly of the native Micmacs’ ornamented fur and...
View ArticleThese Lemon Cookies Are a Timeless Treat
By Joel CrabtreePhotographed by Michael D. Wilson At Two Rivers Lunch, in Allagash, Leitha Kelly has folded tender sugar cookies around dollops of lemon curd ever since opening the diner, in 1976....
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The Best Trails For Cross-Country Skiing in Maine
By Clark Shepard and the Down East staff Maine is a cross-country skier’s Shangri-La, and this list of our favorite Nordic destinations proves it. From mountain valleys to rolling farmland to island...
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A Novice’s Guide to Snowmobiling Aroostook County
By Mitch Breton In Aroostook County, where a mere 70,000 people spread out across almost 7,000 square miles, everything about the landscape feels expansive: the long and little-trafficked roads, the...
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A Very General Store
By Joyce KryzakPhotographed by Tristan Spinski Propane lamps cast a straw-colored, tremulous light throughout The Pioneer Place, U.S.A, Smyrna’s only general store, where the shelves are packed...
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Nighttime Photography Workshop
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“There’s Just Something Here That Gives Us This Sense of Identity.”
Interview by Brian KevinPhotographed by Kevin Bennett In 2018, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Maine invited journalist, educator, and Caribou-dweller Kathryn Olmstead to...
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Russell Currier’s Aroostook Skiing Guide
By Will GrunewaldPhotographs courtesy of Russell Currier When Russell Currier wasn’t bouncing from race to race around the world for the better part of the past two decades, he was training, either at...
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