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Arts & Leisure

Hometown Hero

Superman protects Metropolis, Batman fights for Gotham — but who’s watching over Maine?
Pushing Open All the Window by Abbie Read
Arts & Leisure

Collector’s Items

Abbie Read has a passion for found objects — and books and paper and paintings. This month, she’s bringing together her eclectic interests in ayears-in-the-making installation in Brunswick.
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Land, Water & Wildlife

A Festival for the Birds

Since 1999, the Acadia Birding Festival has grown from a get-together for locals to a grand to-do that draws diehard birders from across the country.
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Maine-Made

Hit Maker

A baseball-bat manufacturer in Shirley Mills gets his call-up to the big leagues.
Wild, Wild Life
Home + Garden

Wild, Wild Life

A couple carves a homestead out of the woods in Ellsworth.
Bangor Zombie Walk 2015
Arts & Leisure

Want to Play Zombie for a Day?

Shuffle this way, to Bangor’s annual celebration of the living dead.
Bob cat taxidermy
Arts & Leisure

Midnight Menagerie

At a natural history museum in Hinckley, the living meet the dead with the lights turned out.
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Travel & Outdoors

Mountain Maven

Aislinn Sarnacki’s climb from copy desk intern to Maine trail guru.
Ellie Buckland, Mali Obomsawin, and Isa Burke from Lula WIles
Arts & Leisure

No Second Fiddle

Folk trio Lula Wiles brings its breezy vocal harmonizing and sharp picking, bowing, and plucking back to Maine for this summer’s Kingfield Pops.
House in Snow
Home + Garden

Haystack

Built with straw bales, a Mount Desert Island home is practical, energy efficient, and beautiful.
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Maine-Made

Against the Grain

The co-founder of Maine Grains grinds out a niche — and revives a local tradition — at her Skowhegan gristmill.
Northeast by Eastern
Arts & Leisure

Scoring the Archives

Haunting modern guitar meets sepia-tinged nostalgia in Sumner McKane’s new deep-dive documentary Northeast by Eastern.
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