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Contributing editor Edgar Allen Beem has been writing for Down East since 1983.
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Our Towns

How Harpswell Got Its News Back

After funding issues ceased production in 2020, residents hatched a plan to resurrect the Harpswell Anchor.
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Our Towns

The Portlander Who Rescues What Hospitals Throw Out

Partners for World Health founder Elizabeth McLellan saw a medical need and filled it with rummage.
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Gridlocked in Wiscasset

Will the state’s latest plan for Wiscasset solve a traffic nightmare or ruin a town?
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How to Transition to an Organic Lawn

Nine steps to a healthy and lush organically grown lawn.
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Making Art, Making a Life

Midcoast “nature people” Kate and Jonathan Mess push boundaries in the gallery, keep it real at home.
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Outdoor Educator Ann Carson on 100 Years of Chewonki

Chewonki’s chief academic explains why the idyllic midcoast campus has attracted campers, students, and seekers for a century.
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Land, Water & Wildlife

The Bailey Island Fishing Tournament: Monster Tuna, Maine Tradition

For 82 years, the sportfishing competition has been luring fishermen to Harpswell in search of Casco Bay’s big prize.
Painted into a Corner
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N.C. Wyeth, In a New Light

An exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art tries to rehab the painter’s artistic legacy while critiquing his cultural biases.
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Maine-Made

Johnny’s Selected Seeds

Rooted in the counterculture of the 1970s, Johnny’s Selected Seeds is flourishing with the locavore movement.
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Storming the Beaches

A noted law professor argues it’s high time to overturn a controversial 1989 low-water mark in Maine judicial history.
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Animal Spirits

Printmaker Susan Amons mixes technique and allegory in her otherworldly artwork.
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War of Secession

On the outskirts of the small city of Caribou, some folks want to lower their taxes by going it alone.
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