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The Edible Parts of a Lobster, Ranked
By Virginia M. WrightPhotographed by Mark Fleming 1. Tail Can I eat it? As if you could resist! This is the star attraction of your shore dinner. Some aficionados, including me, prefer the tail’s...
View Article“In Shah We Trust”
Background Child of Indian immigrantsGrew up in WisconsinMajored in psych and bio at University of Louisville Double Degrees Law degree from University of Chicago, 2007Medical degree from University...
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Ben’s Picks: 30+ WOW Photos of Comet NEOWISE
Advertisement Hopefully everyone has been able to see Comet NEOWISE with their own eyes over the past month. What started as a smudge on the eastern horizon at dawn morphed into a large, beautiful...
View ArticleWilliam King’s Favorite Maine Place
Though we don’t typically turn My Favorite Place over to figures from history, we’ll make a bicentennial exception for William King, the closest thing Maine has to a George Washington figure. Before...
View ArticleMaine News You May Have Missed
Vinalhaven Two North Haven residents, boating back from the grocery store, saw a black bear paddling toward Vinalhaven’s shore. At its nearest point, the island is 7 miles from the mainland, no short...
View ArticleWhere in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Pine Point, Scarborough Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from May’s photo. This is Pine Point in the town of Scarborough, or...
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The 33 Best Places for Outdoor Dining in Maine
Dining alfresco is a rite of summer, and this year, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s imperative. From the seaside to the lakshore to the city, follow the links below to find the best Maine restaurants...
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The Best Places to Camp in Maine
FOR THE TENTERS Our Pick: Hermit Island Campground, Phippsburg Hermit Island Campground has 271 sites across half an island. Most accept small pop-up campers, but this is primarily a tenter’s...
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Carryout Cocktails (and Other Pandemic Silver Linings)
By Will Grunewald #1 Cocktails on the Run What goes great with takeout food? Takeout drinks, of course. To help bars and restaurants get by during the pandemic, state regulators temporarily okayed...
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Do You Even Love Maine If You Don’t Have a Maine-y Tattoo?
Photographed by Michael D. Wilson Perhaps you’ve noticed that a lot of Maine’s native, adopted, and seasonal residents tend to wear their fondness for the motherland on their sleeves — and that many,...
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A Summer Without Maine
By Ted Gup Every year since I was a boy, I have spent part or all of my summers in Maine. That goes back to 1957 or ’58. But this year, the odds feel stacked against me. At 69, with a medical history...
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Germ Warfare, State Secrets, and Quiet Strolls
By Buzz Poole Nicholson Baker has written more than a dozen critically acclaimed and wildly divergent books, fiction and non, from 1988’s The Mezzanine, a novel consisting of the idle thoughts of a...
View ArticleYour Adventure Awaits
FOR AN ISLAND GETAWAYMonroe Island, Owls Head A forested island with an away-from-it-all feel, just a half-mile paddle or boat ride from Owls Head Harbor. Explore the 225-acre preserve on its 1½-mile...
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The 100-Year-Old Hiking Trip that Changed Maine Forever
By Andrew Vietze In early August 1920, a 44-year-old Maine legislator named Percival Baxter stood on the granite summit of the state’s tallest mountain, surveying the green landscape far below....
View ArticleVirginia M. Wright’s Favorite Maine Place
During 20 years of writing for Down East, senior editor Virginia M. Wright has interviewed senators and governors, profiled countless Mainers from all walks of life, and written deeply reported,...
View ArticleMaine Farms Make a Stand
By Katy Kelleher The century-old Snell Family Farm, in Buxton, is usually pretty quiet in early spring. I live down the road, and I’ve roasted the Snells’ beets, sautéed their garlic scapes, and...
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Meet Maine’s Pétanque Evangelist
By Jaed Coffin Photographed by Mark Fleming One recent sunny morning, in a park overlooking the Kennebec River, retired barber Ray Fecteau demonstrated the tossing of a pétanque ball. “Think of a...
View ArticleAncho Honey’s Delicious Timing
By Jesse EllisonPhotographed by Malcolm Bedell, courtesy of Ancho Honey Malcolm Bedell was a graphic designer before he was a food writer before he was a cook. Unsurprisingly, his latest project went...
View ArticleSeptember 2020
Features Best of Maine Thousands of Down East readers took our annual poll to tell us what they love most in Maine — from landmarks to lobster shacks to libraries. Then we chimed in with a few picks...
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