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Food & Drink

Best of Maine: Food and Drink 2013

Snack on creton at the Canadian border. Gift a box of island chocolate. Eat a tempura-fried whoopie pie.
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Best of Maine Readers’ Choice 2013

Mainers are nothing if not opinionated, and Down East readers are no exception.
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How to Plant a Fairy Garden

Small “fairy” gardens can be magical places to teach kids about plants.
Down East March 2013
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March 2013

The table of contents from the March 2013 issue of Down East.
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Physician Survey 2013

We asked more than 5,700 of Maine’s physicians this question: If you or a family member had a problem in...
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Down East Decoration

Celebrate the season with these unique homemade decorations. By Dashiell Masland and Kathryn Dunn Tis the season to be grateful....
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Best of Maine: Outdoors 2013

Surf in Wells. Zip line down Sugarloaf. Have Acadia all to yourself (well, almost). Photo: Paul Rezendes World-Class Nordic Skiing ...
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Kineo

A new guide shows you how 
to climb Moosehead Lake’s 
famed mountain in the 
footsteps of Thoreau.
Down East March 2013
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Maine At Work

How Mainers are making money in 2013 [separator type=”thin”] [columns_row width=”half”] [column] [O]ver the past forty years, Maine’s economy has...
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Northern Light

In February, we treasure every extra minute of daylight. Astronomers tell us that the days begin to grow longer on...
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A Holiday Unwrapped

In this excerpt from We Took to the Woods, Louise Dickinson Rich extolls the virtues of an upcountry Christmas. Photographed...
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50 Reasons We Love Portland: Reasons No. 29 – 50

No. 29: The food scene went underground   There’s a skit on the comedy show Portlandia (it satires the one in Oregon, but,...
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