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Brian Kevin
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Brian Kevin is a former Down East editor. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Outside, Audubon, Travel + Leisure, and other publications. He’s the author of The Footloose American: Following the Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America, which won the Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction. He lives in Hope.
Tower of Dour
Arts & Leisure

Robert Eggers’s The Lighthouse Looks Real Creepy and Real Maine-y

In The Lighthouse, a cinema auteur pits two grim keepers in a battle of wills on a harsh, uncanny Maine island.
Whole Yacht of Love
Maine-Made

Whole Yacht of Love

A renowned boatbuilder reimagines a piece of Maine history.
Shuck Station Oysters
Food & Drink

Taste the River

Prying into Damariscotta River's oyster culture.
Captain Harpswell
Arts & Leisure

Captain Harpswell

The year’s most talked-about big-screen superhero spends summers laying low (and occasionally battling aliens) on the midcoast.
Travel & Outdoors

Ax Throwing

What’s more therapeutic than hurling a razor-sharp ax? Not much, so long as you’re careful.
Twilight of the Diehards
Land, Water & Wildlife

Twilight of the Diehards

Baxter State Park retires an age-old — and way-cold — tradition.
Tess Gerritsen
Arts & Leisure

Night Writer

In The Shape of Night, bestselling Camden suspense novelist Tess Gerritsen dabbles in the spectral.
Scarborough Marsh
My Favorite Place

Paul Doiron’s Favorite Maine Place

Crime novelist (and former Down East editor) on his hometown birding haven.
Kennebec River
Our Towns

Yvon Chouinard’s Favorite Maine Place

Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard on his company’s role in undamming the Kennebec River.
Bar Harbor Shore Path
My Favorite Place

Dr. Edison Liu’s Favorite Maine Place

The scientist and Jackson Lab head has a morning routine along a Bar Harbor landmark.
Water Cove, Phippsburg
My Favorite Place

Susan Conley’s Favorite Maine Place

The novelist and memoirist has a lifetime of memories from her family's midcoast camp.
Gorham Mountain, Acadia National Park
My Favorite Place

Dr. Jacquelyn Gill’s Favorite Place

For the University of Maine paleoecologist, Acadia has always both a research destination and a respite.
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