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Bridget M. Burns
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Bridget M. Burns is Down East's branded content editor. She joined the staff in 2022 after freelancing with the magazine since 2018, and she covers paid content and custom publishing projects like Journeys with VIP for VIP Tires & Service. She graduated from the University of Maine at Farmington with a BFA in creative writing, and now lives in a renovated barn in Kennebunkport with her husband and two daughters.
Schooner Stephen Taber sails towards Curtis Island Light, at the entrance of Camden Harbor.
Travel & Outdoors

How Well Do You Know Your Sailing Vessels?

Review our sailboat glossary to ensure you know your schooners from windjammers and sloops from your cutters.
The Chickadees, Maine's all female snow-sculpting team with their practice snow-sculpture of Artemis in Waterville Maine
Arts & Leisure

An All-Female Snow-Sculpting Team Is Carving Out a Niche

The Chickadees are chiseling away at a male-dominated craft.
Three New Novels Ask: Can Maine Fix Your Troubled Relationship?
Arts & Leisure

Three New Novels Ask: Can Maine Fix Your Troubled Relationship?

Caitlin Shetterly, Emily Henry, and William Dameron each have their own takes.
Freeport Chamber of Commerce executive director Tawni Whitney
Our Towns

What’s in Store for Freeport?

For decades, outlet retail has anchored Maine’s most-visited downtown. Now, its champions say the next iteration needs more than big brands.
Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson, Maine
Our Towns

Wilco Bassist John Stirratt’s Favorite Maine Place

The midcoast musician loves to get outside at Jefferson’s 1,000-acre Hidden Valley Nature Center.
Bridget M. Burns, outside the Freedom Farm barn, with daughters Sinead and Clodagh and husband Kevin.
History

This Unassuming Maine Farm Once Sheltered Families Displaced By War

For Bridget M. Burns, whose unconventional Kennebunkport home is all that remains of Freedom Farm, its legacy feels pressing today.
a family hiking Bald Mountain Preserve
Travel & Outdoors

6 Places to Go Hiking in the Camden Hills Area

Thanks to local land-preservation efforts, there’s no shortage of trails for hikers to enjoy in Camden and the surrounding area — including this inexhaustive list for all ability levels.
Maine Novels to Add to Your Summer Reading List
Arts & Leisure

6 Maine Novels to Add to Your Summer Reading List

A dystopian future wrought by secessionist Mainers. A family drama on a Penobscot reservation. A seaside home with a century’s worth of secrets.
South Portland Public Library
Our Towns

Steven Rowley’s Favorite Maine Place

The author and screenwriter got his start as a reader at the South Portland Public Library.
Illustrated map of Maine, by Stellar_Bones
Travel & Outdoors

What Every Would-Be Mainer Must Know

We reached out to four smart Mainers whose professional lives revolve around new arrivals, and we asked them: what have you learned that every prospective Mainer needs to hear?
Lobster Lake, Terry Gerritsen's favorite Maine place
Our Towns

Terry Gerritsen’s Favorite Maine Place

The author of the hugely popular Rizzoli & Isles series on Piscataquis County’s Lobster Lake.
Wild Knoll, the 1916 Colonial Revival in York that May Sarton would call home for the last 22 years of her life.
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Farewell to May Sarton’s “House by the Sea”

In York, the excavator comes for a writer’s beloved home.
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