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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.
Arts & Leisure

Why We Hunt: Management

He's effective, controversial, and in demand. Meet the scientist-sharpshooter who eliminated Monhegan's deer herd.
Issues & Politics

Welcome to the Circus That is Black Bear Politics in Maine

Passions are high, motivations tangled, and bedfellows strange. Oh, and did we mention this already happened 10 years ago?
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Bangor Rock City

How the Queen City has become the capital of music in Maine.
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The Thieves of Spring

With spring on its way, watch out for Maine's latest crime wave: maple sap stealing.
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Could Maine Host the Winter Olympics in 2022?

The Sochi Olympics are over, but we wondered, could Maine ever host the Winter Games? We asked Sugarloaf's two-time gold-medalist snowboarder Seth Wescott to weigh in.
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The Settlers: Maine’s Far Northern Amish Community

A six-year-old Amish community works together to survive.
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Prophecy is the Best/Worst Maine Horror Film Ever Made

Halloween is the perfect time to stream the greatest Maine monster movie of all time.
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Turtle Powah

Who knew that the "heroes in a half shell" got their start among the soft shells? An interview with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator and native Mainer Kevin Eastman.
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CM Almy’s Sunday Best

CM Almy in Pittsfield has been outfitting church clergy across the country with robes, chalices, candleholders, and crosses for 122 years. Amen to that.
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The Survivors

In Aroostook County, a ragtag troop of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans converges on a wilderness school for nine weeks of camping, canoeing, and self-discovery. Can they find what they’re looking for in the Maine North Woods?
Travel & Outdoors

25 Ways to Embrace Winter

Ride a dogsled, ski Acadia, skate in Portland, and more ideas for making this your best winter ever.
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An Eye for Detail

Ottie Thomas-Smith handcrafts some of the nation's finest prosthetic eyes, ears, noses, and more.
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