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How to Build a Game of Thrones Goat
By Amy SutherlandPhotographed by Tristan Spinski From our March 2020 issue For the past 10 years, Jo Ann and Wayne Myers have been trying to make Icelandic goats essentially from scratch on their...
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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 Adventures Visit our calendar to find the best things to...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: Westbrook
Like many recent arrivals, Matt McInnis moved to Westbrook because Portland was growing unaffordable. It’s where he and his cofounders based their mushroom-growing business, North Spore, because...
View ArticleRick Charette’s Greatest Hits
By Joel CrabtreePhotograph courtesy of Rick Charette When Rick Charette announced his retirement from performing a few months ago, songs about mud and school buses and alligators flooded my brain....
View ArticleOde to an Apple Tree
By Susan Hand Shetterly I find myself going out in the early morning to stand next to the apple tree to see if a few of the buds have swelled. Sometimes, I test them with my fingers, looking for a...
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Erik Desjarlais Bakes Up a Comeback
By Kate McCarty Tales of Erik Desjarlais’s temperament behind the line of his high-profile Portland restaurants precede him. In the early 2000s, he was ill-tempered, heavy-drinking, and egotistical —...
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Art Books for the Bicentennial
By Will Grunewald Photographed by Mark Fleming At First Light: Two Centuries of Maine Artists, Their Homes and Studios Bowdoin College Museum of Art co-directors Anne Collins Goodyear and Frank...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: Hampden
Ask Hampden-ites what brought them to town and plenty will credit the school district, which has ranked for years among the state’s best. It’s what lured Shelby Wright and her daughter up from North...
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Dr. Habib Dagher’s Favorite Maine Place
Last fall, in Habib Dagher’s lab on the University of Maine campus, the world’s largest 3D printer squirted out the largest object ever printed, a 25-foot-long, 5,000-pound navy patrol boat, made of...
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Hecklers Yelled Ethnic Slurs, But the 1944 Waterville Panthers Became Champs
By Ronald Joseph John Mitchell was 16 years old when his hotshot high-school basketball team headed to Bangor for an away game. As the Waterville Purple Panthers’ point guard — a team leader,...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: Brooksville
Skirting the southwestern edge of the Blue Hill Peninsula, bucolic Brooksville has some of the state’s prettiest scenery and lowest property taxes. Buck’s Harbor, the closest thing the community has...
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Is this Maine’s most peculiar store?
By Virginia M. WrightPhotographed by Tristan Spinski Browsing the maze of old things in Elmer’s Barn, I spotted a 1910 rowing machine like those in the Titanic’s gym, a crateful of railroad spikes, a...
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J.K. Putnam is a professional nature and landscape photographer based on Mount Desert Island, home of Acadia National Park, where he leads tours and teaches photography workshops while also operating...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: Biddeford
For our 2020 Best Places to Live feature, we asked some of the Down East staff and contributors what makes their town great. Here’s what photo director Mark Fleming had to say. What I Love Not only do...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: Eastport
Eastport rings in the new year twice— first at 11 p.m. (when it’s midnight in neighboring New Brunswick), with the drop of a big maple leaf and a round of “O Canada,” and then again at 12 a.m., with...
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Siding Cut to Last
By Andrew C. MillerPhotographed by Kevin Bennett Foster Smith likes to say he has sawdust in his veins. As a young man starting out in carpentry 35 years ago, he preferred working alongside older...
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Portland Maine native and tech entrepreneur David Roux and his wife, Barbara, gave $100 million to Boston’s Northeastern University to start a graduate research center in Portland with a focus on...
View ArticleCan Birch Syrup Pick Up Steam?
By Amber KapiloffPhotographed by Gabe Souza From a low peak in the Franklin County town of Temple, Michael Romanyshyn can survey his family’s 200-acre wood, much of its canopy spanned by bone-white...
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Features The Parable of the Sower Will Bonsall has devoted much of his life to saving some of the world’s rarest heirloom vegetable seeds. But will his efforts fall among the thorns? By Laura Poppick...
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