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Jaed Coffin
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Jaed Coffin is the author of the memoirs A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants and Roughhouse Friday and teaches in the University of New Hampshire's MFA creative writing program. He lives in Brunswick.
Our Towns

The COVID Cruise Ship and the Maine Fishing Town

Eastport tried for years to lure mega cruise ships. Then, amid a global pandemic, it got one, along with a skeleton crew of coronavirus exiles.
The Art of Peace
Arts & Leisure

Ashley Bryan and the Art of Peace

After serving in World War II, the painter and writer found solace in his work (and on a small island in Maine).
Gerald Baldwin reconnects the power supply for a snow gun after a leak caused ice to build up.
Land, Water & Wildlife

A (Frigid) Night Out with Maine’s Sunday River Snowmakers

All day and all night, the award-winning team of “snow farmers” keeps the fluffy stuff blasting.
Rich Wills
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Row, Row, Row

No ocean liners necessary: Rich Wills dreamt up a different kind of cruise along the Maine coast.
Brant & Cochran metalsmith Gabriel McNeill shapes an ax head for the company’s new line.
Maine-Made

Brant & Cochran Is Bringing Back the Maine Ax

The South Portland company is forging ahead with its plans to restore and create quality, Maine-made tools.
A carnival worker mans the Ferris wheel on the opening night of the Fryeburg Fair.
Issues & Politics

A Trump-Loving Impresaria, Her Immigrant Workers, and the Future of a Maine Institution

After her husband died in 2013, Jeanette Gilmore took over Smokey’s Greater Shows, an institution on the Maine festival circuit. But in 50+ years of fairgrounds, Ferris wheels, and a fluctuating workforce, life on the midway hasn’t gotten any easier. Welcome to the carnival.
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Arts & Leisure

Meet Maine’s Pétanque Evangelist

A French lawn finds its champion in a state with deep Franco-American history.
Colby Fortier-Brown, Luke Lorrimer, Joyce Taylor, Adam Grotton, Meg Lane, Melissa Zelenkewich, Stephen Landry, and Michael Cole, of MaineDOT’s Office of Creative Services.
Arts & Leisure

Ever Wonder Who Writes The Goofy Maine DOT Road Signs?

Sometimes, highway safety is a laughing matter.
Charles Bradley
Arts & Leisure

Soul Searching

The improbable Maine origins of the theme song to the HBO hit Barry.
Will Sears
Arts & LeisureTravel & Outdoors

Paint the Town

Will Sears gives Portland a fresh look and blurs the line between commercial and fine art.
Chris Hayward skiing
Land, Water & Wildlife

The Hundred Thousand Foot Club

Each winter, Chris Hayward plays an epic game of King of the Mountain, eschewing chairlifts and racking up as much vertical footage as he can. Who says going down is the fun part?
Steve Brettell. Photographed by Michael D. Wilson
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Bird Man

For almost 40 years, Steve Brettell has worked with monkish devotion in a tiny attic workshop, crafting countless exquisitely lifelike duck decoys.
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