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Natural Refuge
By Jennifer Van Allen When Brandon Brichetto walked through the gates of Camp Susan Curtis as a shy 10-year-old, he desperately needed a refuge, a place where he didn’t have to worry about his...
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Restoring Nature
Walk into almost any garden center this spring and you’ll find rows full of exotic plants. Thanks to the global horticulture industry, plants that once only grew in far-off places, like Asia —...
View ArticleBlow the Man Down is one Murderous, Maine-y Movie
By Will Grunewald It’s Maine-made. Cowriters/directors Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy shot in and around Harpswell to create the fictional village of Easter Cove. Harpswellians will also...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: South Berwick
It’s just an hour from both Boston and Portland and 10 miles north of comparatively bustling Kittery, but South Berwick still feels plenty rural (so do its home prices). Downtown overlooks the Salmon...
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Ben’s Picks: Weekly(ish) Photo Faves
Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse Photographed by Benjamin Williamson After a day of rain and clouds on Tuesday, the light broke through for just a minute at sunset and cast a beautiful glow on Spring...
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How To Support Maine Businesses Right Now
As the pandemic affects our communities we’re reaching out to Maine businesses that are working hard to adapt to the developing situation and continuing to support their customers and communities....
View ArticleCan You Name This Maine Mystery Spot?
This verdant isle, near the convergence of the Gulf of Maine and the Bay of Fundy, attracts naturalists of every stripe. Botany buffs search for rare plants, such as beach-head iris, marsh felwort,...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: North Haven
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 contributor Laura Serino had to say. What I Love This place is...
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Tacko Fall Towered Over the Red Claws Season
Big shoes to fill: Red Claws center Tacko Fall wears size 22 sneakers and has a standing reach of 10 feet, 2 inches. Earlier this season, NBA fans cast almost a million All-Star Game votes for him,...
View ArticleShop the Maine Pride Collection!
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View ArticleMaine News You May Have Missed
Scarborough Hannaford, the locally based grocery chain, established early-morning shopping times exclusively for customers over age 60 or otherwise at high risk from COVID-19. Shaw’s locations and...
View ArticleWhere in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Easton Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from February’s photo. I read this with much delight and nostalgia. Easton was my...
View ArticleService, Please! How to Work Out a Labor Shortage
By Frances Killea Having two (or three, or four) jobs is a Mainer thing, but when restaurants, shops, and hotels geared up for the summer rush the past several years, there was simply more work to be...
View ArticleVote in the 2020 Best of Maine Readers’ Choice Poll
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View ArticleMemory and Desire
By Susan Hand Shetterly The great poem “The Waste Land,” by T.S. Eliot, begins with these lines: “April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire …”...
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Wood-Fired Meals Star at Walkers Maine, in Cape Neddick
By Michaela CavallaroPhotographed by Ryan David Brown On a recent visit to Walkers Maine in Cape Neddick, the duck thigh arrived with crispy skin and meat that melted off the bone into fried rice...
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Best Places to Live in Maine: South Berwick
It’s just an hour from both Boston and Portland and 10 miles north of comparatively bustling Kittery, but South Berwick still feels plenty rural (so do its home prices). Downtown overlooks the Salmon...
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The Maine Farmer Saving the World’s Rarest Heirloom Seeds
By Laura PoppickPhotographed by Greta RybusFrom our April 2020 issue When Will Bonsall was growing up in Waterville in the 1950s and ’60s, his family lived modestly, and their grocery budgets were...
View ArticleWeekly Update: How Mainers Are Coping With COVID-19
Statewide Distilleries around Maine, including Newcastle’s Split Rock Distilling and Portland’s Maine Craft Distilling, have started using their boozy equipment to make hand sanitizer, supplying both...
View ArticleNominate Your Faves for Down East‘s 2020 Best of Maine!
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