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Features
Your Favorite Maine State Parks
We asked our readers, then sent our photographers out to 10 of the state’s most beautiful and beloved public lands, from beaches to mountains to historic forts.
All Is Well
Ripped from the headlines: a tale of a stranded sailor, an unlikely rescue, and love lost (and found) on the high seas. By John Clarke.
Hard Tellin’ Not Knowin’
What exactly is the Maine dialect? What does it mean to talk like a Mainer in 2015? The answers are wicked complicated. By Michael Erard.
Whose Town Is It Anyway?
A flurry of development in the Kennebunks prompts a philosophical tug-of-war over the towns’ identities. By Rob Sneddon.
Spose: The King of Maine Gets Happy
Maine’s hardest working rapper on success, misery, and fast food. By Brian Kevin.
Departments
Where in Maine?
Can you name this lake and its lighthouse?
Editor’s Note
Maine’s State Parks
Letters to the Editor
What You Said
Your Maine
Where’s your favorite place to paddle a canoe or kayak in Maine?
North by East
Opinions, Advisories, and Musings from the Length and Breadth of Maine
Down East Dispatches
News You May Have Missed
What’s in a Picture
The End of an Era in Lubec
Q&A
Walter Skold, Founder of the Dead Poets Society of America.
Dooryard
Living the Maine Life
Home
A Retro Cumberland Cottage
Making It in Maine
Geoffrey Warner’s Owl Stools
Garden
A Family Affair in Jefferson
My Maine
Blueberries Saved My Life!
Recipe
Tomato and Bread Salad
Room With a View
Seeing Stars
Guide
What to Do in Maine This Month
Dining
Boyton-McKay Food Company, Camden
Radio
Old-Time at WYAR
Excursion
Stemwinder Sculpture Works and Gardens
Menu
Smokin’ Good BBQ
Book
Enchanted August
Fiction
From Ann Beattie’s The State We’re In: Maine Stories
Calendar
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From Our Archives
Passion and Pluck — August 1957