Sex, drugs, and lobster fishing — it's all happening this summer on Grand Seal Island! Don't miss this new (fictitious) blog by author Michael Evans that chronicles the daily exploits of Donovan Graham, a recent college graduate whose first assignment is to cover the escalating border dispute playing out between the United States and Canada on an island off the Maine coast.
 
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"I never expected to have such an incredible dinner in a little shack in the middle of farm fields only 10 minutes from downtown Portland. Let me explain. The little shack is actually a restaurant called The Well. The farm field is Jordan's Farm. The chef is Jason Williams, a multi-year alumni from Back Bay Grill."
 
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Wed July 20, noon-2PM, Sea Glass Hunter's Handbook author Carole Lambert will speak and sign books at the Maine Maritime Museum, 234 Water Street, Bath. Part of the "Author at Eight Bells" series.

Sat July 23rd, Noon-4PM, Maine Lighthouse Museum Celebration Days will be held in Rockland. Many Down East books and authors will be there, including Gerry Boyle (Damaged Goods), Angeli Perrow (Many Hands), Lee Ann & Thomas Szelog (Our Point of View), Virginia Wright (The Wild Blueberry Book), Cathryn Falwell (Pond Babies), Nicole Fazio (Down East in the Ocean), Carole Lambert (Sea Glass Hunter's Handbook), Jamie Hogan (Seven Days of Daisy).

Wed, July 27th, 7-9PM, Governor's Travels author and former Governor Angus King will speak, show photographs, and sign books at Union Hall (upstairs at Searsport Town Hall), sponsored by Left Bank Books, Searsport.
 
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Deep inside the sprawling Edgecomb Potters studio, Rachel Maldovan works steadily at a table crowded with bisque mugs. Plucking the cups one at a time, she swipes their wells and rims with a solution that will preserve their satiny smoothness when a scorching-hot kiln forces their bone-colored surfaces to bloom into crystalline pinks, greens, and golds.
 
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The staycation is the biggest travel trend in the last five years, and what better place to experience one than Maine? This fun and useful manual is designed to help you make the most of your time off in Maine, and to make your staycation include all of the great parts of a vacation with none of the hassles. Includes tips on how to prepare, great ideas for things to do, and how to discover the best things about your town/summer spot/state that you never knew existed.
 
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