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A few flashback details from September 2014.
Sunaana Festival
Travel & Outdoors

What Isn’t Sunaana?

Portland’s freewheeling festival — christened with an Inuit word meaning “What is it?” — gets even more eclectic in year two.
Swig of the Month
Food & Drink

Swig of the Month

To make Blueberry Dream soda taste like blueberries, Green Bee owner Chris Kinkade uses, well, real blueberries, eschewing the concentrates and vague “natural flavorings” in big-brand bevs.
Down East Dispatches Feb 2018
Arts & Leisure

Down East Dispatches

Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine
Where in Maine?
Where in Maine?

Where in Maine?

Can you identify this slumbering Maine harbor?
lobstering islet and seafood shack
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Our Favorite Letter

Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from December.
The Swinging Bridge
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Where in Maine

Know the name of this bridge and the towns that it links? Submit your answer here
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From Our Archives Winter 1961
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From Our Archives
Winter 1961

From a story by Jay Hutchins, published in the winter of 1961. Photographed by Harry Packard.
Having a Blast
Travel & Outdoors

Having a Blast

The downhill season in Newry can still start in the fall and run well into the spring, and the metrics behind that feat will knock you off your skis.
Portland Museum of Art
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Sneak Peek

When former Space Gallery executive director Nat May was tapped to curate this year’s Portland Museum of Art biennial exhibition he self-imposed a tough constraint: to foster fresh perspectives. He let us preview a few of the show’s highlights.
January 1958
Arts & Leisure

From our Archives
January 1958

From the story “Off to the Banks Again” by Lew Dietz in our January 1958 issue.
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