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The Yarmouth restaurant is picking up where it left off before its long pandemic layoff.
The boat was seaworthy. But were they?
From its projector room in the top of a lighthouse, the Shotwell Drive-In marries the new and the nostalgic.
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Once again, we asked Down East readers to cast their votes for Maine’s best everything: burgers to bookstores, museums to marinas, art galleries to architects. plus, we’ve sprinkled in picks of our own. How’d your favorites do?
We want to see Maine through your lens. Submit your photos by October 27.
The Yarmouth restaurant is picking up where it left off before its long pandemic layoff.
The boat was seaworthy. But were they?
From its projector room in the top of a lighthouse, the Shotwell Drive-In marries the new and the nostalgic.
The best of Maine delivered to your door year-round. Subscribe to Down East magazine.
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Once again, we asked Down East readers to cast their votes for Maine’s best everything: burgers to bookstores, museums to marinas, art galleries to architects. plus, we’ve sprinkled in picks of our own. How’d your favorites do?
We want to see Maine through your lens. Submit your photos by October 27.
The boat was seaworthy. But were they?
Summer is rapidly waning, but there's still time to plan one of these last-minute-friendly, so-very-Maine escapes.
On 104 acres in Wales, the farmers of the Little Jubba agrarian commons are demonstrating another model for American agriculture — and replanting what was once uprooted.
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A historic bridge gets destroyed by fire, Maine students discover a new fish gene, a beaver-induced rock slide in Acadia, and more.
The much-admired organization has been keeping it organic since 1971.
We want to see Maine through your lens. Submit your photos by October 27.
The Yarmouth restaurant is picking up where it left off before its long pandemic layoff.
The Coast Guard officer hasn’t taken any shortcuts on her fundraising treks around Maine (and the rest of the world).
"It turned out everything I had been taught about islands was, in Maine's case, wrong."
Food & Drink
The Yarmouth restaurant is picking up where it left off before its long pandemic layoff.
Food & Drink
The Yarmouth restaurant is picking up where it left off before its long pandemic layoff.
Don't worry, Mainers. Little Brother Chinese Food is back to making their popular jiaozi.
At a new tea service in South Portland, the chefs get credit for their crumpets.
The micro-chain has new cafes in Portland and...Kigali?
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Exploring the world at the ocean’s edge.
Travel & Outdoors
Exploring the world at the ocean’s edge.
There’s no bad approach to the eastern seaboard’s highest peak.
Summer is rapidly waning, but there's still time to plan one of these last-minute-friendly, so-very-Maine escapes.
On two wheels in one of the country’s most bikeable parks.
Mellow (but no less spectacular) walks for the junior ranger in all of us.
Photography
We want to see Maine through your lens. Submit your photos by October 27.
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We want to see Maine through your lens. Submit your photos by October 27.
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Its eastern and western termini are about equidistant from this spot, in two towns synonymous with Maine’s wild-blueberry industry.
Arts & Culture
The much-admired organization has been keeping it organic since 1971.
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The much-admired organization has been keeping it organic since 1971.
The Coast Guard officer hasn’t taken any shortcuts on her fundraising treks around Maine (and the rest of the world).
From its projector room in the top of a lighthouse, the Shotwell Drive-In marries the new and the nostalgic.
The Forest City’s former poet laureate says Maine’s literary community is uniquely close knit.
The pandemic rained on Maine’s big birthday parade last year, but the rebooted parade is ready to roll through downtown Lewiston and Auburn.
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