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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.
Cobscook Bay
Land, Water & Wildlife

In Praise of Sometimes Islands

When is an island not an island? Twice a day, in this quiet corner of Cobscook Bay.
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Features

What Was the Art Colony?

Maine’s towering role in American art owes, in part, to enclaves of artists gathering in out-of-the-way places. With the days of the rusticators long gone, how is the tradition holding up?
John Jenkins, speaking to students in Oxford County, in 2014.
Arts & Leisure

A Tribute to the “Mayor of Maine”

A new biography chronicles John Jenkins’s journey from a magnetic young student and fish out of water to one of Maine’s most popular mayors and its first Black state senator.
Oreo, the porch yak, standing in the driveway
Land, Water & Wildlife

These Maine Farmers Raised Their Baby Yak Like a Dog

The yak imprinted on his owners after they bottle-fed him to keep him alive.
man walking through Mud Pond Carry
Our Towns

James Francis’s Favorite Maine Place

When he thinks of particularly significant Maine places, the artist's mind goes to an iconic portage in the Penobscot watershed.
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Our Towns

Todd Field’s Favorite Maine Place

The Oscar-nominated director finds the essence of community at the Rockport post office.
Chebeague Island, in Casco Bay
Our Towns

Kimberly Hamilton’s Favorite Maine Place

The new president of the Island Institute on her to return to Chebeague Island.
Our Towns

The Maine Coast’s Best Bar Isn’t a Bar At All

On Swan's Island, the proprietors and patrons of Daint’s Place are having more fun than should be legal anywhere.
Land, Water & Wildlife

Maine’s Alewife Run: A Spectacle of Abundance

As alewives return to their historical migration routes, their restored runs are captivating photographers and other wildlife watchers.
bull moose standing in tall grass
Photography

Mark Picard Has Likely Photographed More Moose Than Any Other Mainer

We asked him a few questions about his favorite photography subject.
Pamela Wood, Salt’s founding teacher, with Reid Chapman. Wood, who died in 2018, spearheaded Salt through 2001. All of these photos of Chapman were shot by photographer Jay York, part of Salt’s inaugural 1973 class and still a working photographer, in Portland.
Arts & Leisure

At 50, Maine’s One-of-a-Kind Salt Institute Is Still “Feisty”

A look back — and a look at what’s current — as Maine’s Salt Institute for Documentary Studies marks 50 years.
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Food & Drink

What’s So Funny ’Bout Peace, Love, and Waffle Branding?

Sure, the name’s whimsical, but Dover-Foxcroft’s Peace, Love & Waffles takes brunch seriously.
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