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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.
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Through A Rose-Colored Lens

The Portland Museum of Art takes a career-spanning look at the work of Rose Marasco, one of Maine’s most accomplished — and eclectic — photographers.
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5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Portland Sea Dogs

As we gear up for baseball season, a few pieces of left-field Sea Dog trivia.
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Dear Millinocket

A chat with the man behind the pull-no-punches open letter to Maine’s most visibly struggling mill town.
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Consider the Lobstersexual

From the state that (arguably) gave you the lumbersexual comes the next hot new look.
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Uncle Henry’s Takes Over the World

After 45 years, Maine’s defiantly down-home classifieds weekly isn’t just hanging on in a post-Craigslist world — it’s thriving.
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Breaking Trail

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making ski trip plans.
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Oil Gear Agitator

Someone told her that women-friendly fishing gear was never going to happen. She didn't take no for an answer.
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Play, Paws, Record

Samuel James and Jim LeJames are bringing Portland's music scene to new ears — pointy, fuzzy ears.
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Seeds He’s Sown

Digging deep with David Mallett, Maine's earnest balladeer.
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Aloha From Hawaii 2!

Maine’s newest communal island retreat may be a gag, but its 250,000 owners still wish they were here.
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The 1980s Drug Bust That Shook Midcoast Maine

In 1984, cocaine trafficking in Maine was considered an urban problem. But in the sticks of the midcoast, a loose cartel of freewheeling, twenty-something drug dealers was building an empire — until one of the state’s most elaborate and far-reaching undercover operations brought it all crashing down.
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Just in time for the holidays, Portland’s municipal organist is reunited with his (50-ton) instrument.
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