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Lynn Karlin posing for a photo in her Belfast Maine studio
Photography

Blooming Where She’s Planted

In her Belfast studio, still-life photographer Lynn Karlin puts vegetables on pedestals and poses flowers like fashion models, raising a humble garden haul to the realm of fine art.
Justin and Samantha Juray, the owners of Just-In-Time Recreation, embracing.
Our Towns

“You Can’t Explain It to Anybody”

After a mass shooting took the lives of 18 people last October, families, friends, and survivors were left to process their grief and trauma in myriad ways. For one couple, that meant endeavoring to reopen the bowling alley where the shooting began.
Amy Manning built and fitted out the airy shed entirely with reclaimed materials and bric-a-brac.
Home + Garden

In Nobleboro, a Gung-Ho DIYer Reimagines Her Scraggly Midcoast Lot

And builds one very charming potting shed.
Glass artist Liz Martone in her blinged-out studio
Maine-Made

Round Pond Artist Liz Martone’s Massive Mosaic Gems Are Simply Brilliant 

Her cut-glass creations, some nearly three feet tall, are designed to bounce color and light around a room.
Alison Hildreth
Arts & Leisure

On the Cusp of 90, Alison Hildreth Is Everywhere All at Once

The Portland artist is the subject of three big solo exhibitions this fall.
Bob and Carol Lebeau had the reproduction Gambrel Cape painted in Benjamin Moore’s Cottage Red.
Home + Garden

This Home Was Not Built In the 18th Century, But It Sure Feels That Way

The history-buff owners of the reproduction Gambrel Cape had it constructed in 1983.
women rowing a Cornish pilot gig in Belfast Maine
Arts & Leisure

In Belfast, Year-Round Racers Pull Together in 17th-Century-Style Wooden Vessels

The team was America's best hope at the World Pilot Gig Championships in England last year.
a clump of Eurasian milfoil pulled from the waters of Cobbesseecontee Lake
Land, Water & Wildlife

Can Conservationists Save Cobbosseecontee From an Aggressive Lake Weed?

As the upstream battle against Eurasian watermilfoil stretches into a sixth year, the long-term health of Cobbosseecontee — and of lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams around Maine — could hang in the balance.
Jeffery Becton holding up a print of "Olivia's Room," one of his photomontages
Arts & Leisure

The Art of Being Jeffery Becton

Long content to toil in obscurity from his quiet perch on Deer Isle, the septuagenarian master of photomontage drives fast, takes chances, and wonders whether he’s getting somewhere.
Owls Head General Store
Our Towns

Maine’s General Stores: Where Tight-Knit Communities Thrive (and Retail Giants Don’t)

Photographers Dave Waddell and Tristan Spinski hit the road (and the water) to see what keeps these far-flung holdouts ticking.
$650 dining room renovation by Jess Bailey of @mainemadehome
Home + Garden

How an Instagrammer Designs on a Dime

Rockport DIYer Jess Bailey shares her thrifty renovations — and exactly how much they cost.
Lobster Moqueca and the famed local-seafood paella from Havana, in Bar Harbor
Food & Drink

In Bar Harbor, Havana Has Become an Unlikely Classic

In a tourist town that used to be known for straightforward tastes, the Latin-fusion restaurant invented its own niche.
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