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Jesse Ellison is a Down East contributing editor.
Waxing Romantic
Maine-Made

How a Small Rockport Company Dips a Half-Million Candles A Year — By Hand

"I don't think people appreciate how much work goes into it."
Marijuana in Starks, Maine
Our Towns

Why Isn’t Starks More Excited About Legalized Pot?

Starks is a lovely little farm town that is also the long-reputed heart of Maine’s marijuana culture. So what's harshing their mellow?
Studio 412 & fourTWELVE
Maine-Made

Studio 412 & fourTWELVE

Beth Bowley, a Maine native, opened fourTWELVE in Rockland after more than two decades in New York. Now she designs and manufactures her own clothing line.
Eco-friendly Maine subdivisions
Home + Garden

Greener Acres

Is one of Maine’s new eco-friendly subdivisions right for you?
Architects Chris Briley and Phil Kaplan, hosts of Portland’s Green Architects’ Lounge podcast
Home + Garden

Drinking Buddies

The hosts of Portland’s Green Architects’ Lounge podcast mix tasty cocktails with sustainable building lessons.
Maine-Made

For David Jacobson, Glassblowing is a Dance

A red-hot beginner’s lesson at Montville’s award-winning “micro-enterprise.”
Home + Garden

These Walls Can Talk!

And the owner responsible for meticulously restoring this petite Wiscasset home has been listening.
Home + Garden

Long Time Coming

A pondside cottage in Camden fulfills a longtime dream.
Previously ivory with aluminum trim, Nomad now sports soothing gray-green paint and warm cedar woodwork
Home + Garden

Home Floats

A mid-century houseboat anchors a former helicopter pilot on Rangeley Lake.
No Elder an Island
Issues & Politics

No Elder an Island

For many seniors on Maine’s islands, the prospect of settling into a mainland care home is disquieting. The alternative requires a whole community’s investment.
Tom and Sharon Minogue sitting the in living room area of their two-story linked Maine yurt
Home + Garden

Living in the Round

A Surry couple finds peace, and an intimate connection to their waterfront plot, in a pair of linked yurts.
Home + Garden

Welcome to Smallville

Can tiny-house communities help solve Maine’s affordable-housing shortage?
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