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Presenting Maine’s Best Arts & Media selections, including Readers' Choice winners!
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Thérèse L. Provenzano was born and raised on Long Island, New York, but her mother was from Aroostook County and the land there exerted a powerful pull on her.
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Acadia Favorites: Lunch at Sweet Pea Farm

When you tire of lobster, consider the pizza — specifically, the superb brick-oven pies at Sweet Pea’s Café.
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Artist Profile: Roland Salazar Rose

Roland Salazar was active in the Maine art scene in the 1980s, both as an artist and as founder of Danforth Gallery, a nonprofit artists’ space in Portland.
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Acadia Favorites: The Bowl

There’s something oh-so-inviting about a mountain pond, and few in Acadia are more picturesque than the little spring-fed kettle pond known as The Bowl.
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Taking to the Water

From the unsigned “Letter from Home” column in our July 1967 issue.
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Acadia Favorites: The Islesford Dock

Suspended on pilings over the waters of Hadlock Cove, the seasonal Islesford Dock Restaurant counts MDI summer resident Martha Stewart among its fans.
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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 the April photo of Cascade Falls in Saco.
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Best of Maine 2016
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We’ve been arguing for months. And eating. And shopping. And road-tripping. And at last, all that hard work has paid off. Presenting Maine’s best Travel and Play, from camping to cruising to hitting the links.
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