Maine has the nation’s third highest rate of Lyme disease, but the illness
remains misunderstood and is often misdiagnosed.
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Contributing editor Edgar Allen Beem has been writing for Down East since 1983.
Same-sex marriage is fair, festive, and potentially profitable.
Three friends build an unconventional triple-decker on Portland’s Munjoy Hill
How the true story of three lives lost at sea in December 1956 became Maine's most famous short story.
Are Maine voters declaring their independence? By Edgar Allen Beem One of former Governor Angus King’s favorite punch lines as...
Just two years after consumer fireworks were legalized in Maine, a move is under way to ban them again.
Television personality Steve Thomas settles
into a new job with Habitat for Humanity
— and a Penobscot Bay island home....
What is the future of Land for Maine’s Future? By Edgar Allen Beem In honoring the Land for Maine’s Future...
Fred and Hope Angier make everything new old again. By Edgar Allen Beem Photographs by Brian Vanden Brink Having restored...