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Resetting Sails

Each Sea Bags sail trade preserves memories, authenticity, and the environment.
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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 April.
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Down East Photo Caption Contest

Caption this photo from our June 2017 issue. We'll choose our favorite and send the winner a 2018 Down East wall calendar and a one-year digital subscription.
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Where in Maine?

Can you name this lighthouse and the harbor it protects?
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Down East Dispatches

Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
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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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Mignonette Recipes from Ladona Chef Anna Miller

We spent the evening talking aquaculture and eating the freshest, most delicious oysters you can find while the sun set over the Camden Hills.
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World’s Best Lobster Roll Semi-Finalists

We had dozens of chefs, restaurants, food trucks, and vendors from all over Maine and the country enter the World's Best Lobster Roll competition. Here are the semi-finalists who will compete at this summer's Down East Lobster Roll Festival.
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All Roads Music Festival

On Saturday, May 20, over 30 music artists from across Maine will join together to present their work in venues across Belfast which provides a scenic backdrop for the event in a community that embraces art & culture.
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Swig of the Month

It’s unnerving that most fruit-flavored vodkas are as clear as water. But the blueberry vodka at Split Rock Distilling is the color it ought to be.
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From Our Archives
May 1971

From “Machias River Log Drive,” in our May 1971 issue. A couple of months after this article was published, the Maine State Legislature passed a law to end log drives for good.
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Where in Maine?

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