After a mass shooting took the lives of 18 people last October, families, friends, and survivors were left to process their grief and trauma in myriad ways. For one couple, that meant endeavoring to reopen the bowling alley where the shooting began.
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Some observers suspect that the number of baby eels migrating up Maine rivers is declining. Passamaquoddy fishermen have taken conservation into their own hands.
Our 17th annual roundup of Maine’s best everything, from taprooms to bookshops, lobster rolls to toy stores. How did your favorites do?
When vivid fall colors get splashed across the quintessential small-towns around Rangeley Lake, you’ll discover a priceless foliage experience.
Our curated fall collection features bags, hats, snacks, home decor, and more from Maine makers and artisans.
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The playful furnishings suit photographers John and Cynthia Orcutt’s former place: an old four-room schoolhouse in Kingfield.
For 50 years, the midcoast school has given novice home builders the tools they need to get started.
Its current exhibition, Music in Maine, hits all the high notes.
The inaugural director of the recently established School of Computer Science and Data Analytics believes “that innovation occurs at the intersection of different disciplines.”
William Janelle uses pumpkins and other winter squashes as a medium for experimenting with the faces that enliven his wooden sculptures.
Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from August's photo.
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Travel & Outdoors
Fall road-trip recs, for whatever kind of leaf peeper you happen to be.
Autumn brings a pastoral luster to the coastal mountains of the midcoast.
Newly friendly to cyclists, the Appalachian Mountain Club’s 330 miles of old logging roads are unpaved, with good intentions.
Food & Drink
Its name may come from a nursery rhyme, but the food at this gastropub is anything but elementary.
Coinciding with Maine Needham Day on the last Saturday in September, the event celebrates Maine's favorite potato candy.
The restaurant’s menu echoes the weekday breakfasts and Sunday brunches that its proprietors formerly ran at the first location of Terlingua.
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Home & Garden
Barbara Damrosch hopes her guide to growing organic food, A Life in the Garden, plants a seed.
Come September, plants appear ready to bust free of their beds in landscaper James McCain’s garden.
Having built the garden of their dreams, they now sell their steel frames and offer gardening advice online.
Arts & Leisure
In a century of concert seasons, this year's lineup is one of many high notes.
He was a respected painter who hosted scores of famous artists at his Winter Harbor home and appeared in their work. But he never really got his due.
Mainers (not to mention the entire art world) had already come to know the immense talent of Andrew Wyeth, but they were only just making the acquaintance of Andrew’s 21-year-old son, Jamie, when frequent Down East contributor Marge Cook profiled the up-and-coming, preternaturally determined painter.
Photography
You've likely gotten a glimpse of this lovely scene while traveling at 50-plus miles an hour across a short bridge.
The Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter recalls the thrill of clinging to an inner tube behind her parents' speedboat on Sebago Lake.
Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from July's photo.
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