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Edgar Allen Beem
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Contributing editor Edgar Allen Beem has been writing for Down East since 1983.
Home + Garden

Tick Check

Maine has the nation’s third highest rate of Lyme disease, but the illness 
remains misunderstood and is often misdiagnosed.
Arts & Leisure

The East-West Highway

Gateway to opportunity or toll on the environment?
Arts & LeisureIssues & Politics

The Economics of Equality

Same-sex marriage is fair, festive, and potentially profitable.
Home + GardenPhotography

Group Effort

Three friends build an unconventional triple-decker on Portland’s Munjoy Hill
churning ocean waves
Arts & Leisure

The Ledge

How the true story of three lives lost at sea in December 1956 became Maine's most famous short story.
Issues & Politics

Party Poopers

Are Maine voters declaring their independence? By Edgar Allen Beem One of former Governor Angus King’s favorite punch lines as...
Arts & LeisureIssues & Politics

Fighting Over Fireworks

Just two years after consumer fireworks were legalized in Maine, a move is under way to ban them again.
Home + Garden

The Ultimate (Maine) Home Enthusiast

Television personality Steve Thomas settles 
into a new job with Habitat for Humanity 
— and a Penobscot Bay island home....
Arts & LeisureIssues & Politics

The Influencer: Severin Beliveau

Part of our Maine at Work series.
a snow-covered old Subaru
Arts & Leisure

The Subaru: A Maine Love Story

The surprising popularity of a sensible car.
Issues & Politics

Unwelcome Development

What is the future of Land for Maine’s Future? By Edgar Allen Beem In honoring the Land for Maine’s Future...
Home + Garden

The Upside-Down House

Fred and Hope Angier make everything new old again. By Edgar Allen Beem   Photographs by Brian Vanden Brink Having restored...
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