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Final Round Judges

At this year's Down East Lobster Roll Festival 250 VIP ticket holders will determine which chefs advance to the final round in the World's Best Lobster Roll Competition. Once they've narrowed it down, this panel of pros will pick a winner.
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From our Archives
July 1994

From “Just Say Moo” by Virginia Thorndike in our July 1994 issue. It was not as easy to take these pictures as you might think.
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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 March.
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Best of Maine 2017
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We spend all year thinking about it and countless hours tabulating your votes for it. Our annual list of Maine’s best everything. How’d your favorites do?
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Best of Maine 2017

Down East editors discussing this year’s Best of Maine picks....
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From our Archives
June 1984

From “On Damariscotta Lake,” in the June 1984 issue. 33 years later, families still take to the water to fish, paddle, or simply splash with the kids.
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Best of Maine 2017
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We spend all year thinking about it and countless hours tabulating your votes for it. See our annual list of Maine’s best everything.
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Talkin’ ’Bout Their Generation

Highland Green, A 55-and-up community in Topsham, fosters active lifestyles — and a rock-and-roll band.
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Best of Maine 2017
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We spend all year thinking about it and countless hours tabulating your votes for it. See our annual list of Maine’s best everything.
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Where in Maine?

Can you name this much-visited stretch of shoreline?
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Swig of the Month: Urban Farm Fermentory’s Saison de Gruit

In beer, hops balance against sweetness, impart flavor, and have a preservative effect. What happens if a brewer just leaves them out?
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Land, Water & Wildlife

Nearly 40 Years Photographing Maine’s Puffins

From windswept islands in a warming Gulf of Maine, Derrick Z. Jackson documents Maine’s puffin colonies in intimate, dazzling detail.
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