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A retro sled is a thing of beauty, and winter isn’t over until a couple dozen take to the track at Aroostook County's Mega Meltdown vintage sled race.
How a quasi-war with Canada made our state what it is today — and helped secure a lasting peace at the border.
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A retro sled is a thing of beauty, and winter isn’t over until a couple dozen take to the track at Aroostook County's Mega Meltdown vintage sled race.
How a quasi-war with Canada made our state what it is today — and helped secure a lasting peace at the border.
What are Aroostook County values, and why should they matter to the
rest of us? We asked Kathryn Olmstead, a founding editor of Echoes magazine, who’s spent her career chronicling what sets the County apart.
Maine's immense northernmost county is a braaap-er’s delight. Here's what you need to know.
Maine is a cross-country skier’s Shangri-La, and this list of our favorite Nordic destinations proves it.
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Before she was a widely-traveled leader in indigenous education, Marie Battiste was an Aroostook County girl.
Aroostook hop growers, maltsters, and brewers are teaming up on homegrown suds.
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Food & Drink
Aroostook hop growers, maltsters, and brewers are teaming up on homegrown suds.
Food & Drink
Aroostook hop growers, maltsters, and brewers are teaming up on homegrown suds.
This Frenchville diner's cretons, poutine, and ployes are très bien.
Two Rivers Lunch, in Allagash, serves up an old family recipe.
Maine’s grande dame of fine feasts hasn’t lost a step.
Rumford's Deluxe Diner has served up bacon, eggs, and banter since 1929.
Travel & Outdoors
Learn to fly, photograph, and edit with Isaac Crabtree, of North Woods Aerial and Down East Adventures.
Travel & Outdoors
Learn to fly, photograph, and edit with Isaac Crabtree, of North Woods Aerial and Down East Adventures.
The Olympic biathlete comes home — and hits the trails.
Maine's immense northernmost county is a braaap-er’s delight. Here's what you need to know.
Maine is a cross-country skier’s Shangri-La, and this list of our favorite Nordic destinations proves it.
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Learn to fly, photograph, and edit with Isaac Crabtree, of North Woods Aerial and Down East Adventures.
Down East staff photographer Benjamin Williamson highlights some of his favorite shots from around the state.
Here is our favorite letter from December's photo of Sunday River.
This month's Where in Maine location was the site of a midcentury boondoggle.
In the far, frozen north, we hit the hard water for the state's biggest ice-fishing derby.
Arts & Culture
In tiny Smyrna, the Amish-owned Pioneer Place carries (almost) everything you need.
Arts & Culture
In tiny Smyrna, the Amish-owned Pioneer Place carries (almost) everything you need.
Micmacs are learning to embroider as their ancestors did — with porcupine quills.
A Maine Maritime Museum exhibit reviews the state's frozen assets.
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