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Meadow Rue Merrill
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Meadow Rue Merrill is a Down East contributing editor.
sauna
Home + Garden

Cold Comfort

What’s more invigorating than a shvitz in a backyard sauna? How about sweating it out between an icy dip in Casco Bay and a roll in the snow?
Maine-Made

Bath Shopping

This snug shipbuilding city along the Kennebec River is packed with locally owned stores, a brand-new brewery, rave-worthy restaurants, and a beloved coffee shop, all near the picturesque waterfront park.
Camden-Harbor-in-the-Fall
Arts & Culture

12 Reasons to Retire in Maine

Maine is becoming an increasingly popular retirement destination. We've outlined our most compelling reasons to retire here.
Dooryard Home
Home + Garden

Victorian Revamp

With an eye on a quick sale, a couple updates a tattered old house on Portland’s Munjoy Hill — and they like it so well, they decide to stay.
Maine Home, Pemaquid
Dooryard

On the Rocks

A family tradition endures on the Pemaquid Peninsula.
Maine Home, Cornville, Barn14
Home + Garden

Do You Live in a Barn?

Why, yes, as a matter of fact, Tom and Peggy Hamilton do.
Maine-Made

Gifts That Give Twice

You can feel doubly good about buying holiday gifts when you’re also supporting the work of Maine nonprofits.
Travel & Outdoors

12 Reasons to Retire in Maine

Why Maine is one of the best places to retire.
Storm Gathering - My Maine
Dooryard

Storm Gathering

The federal government later declared the March 11, 2005, storm a disaster — but we knew better.
Work with Purpose
Maine-Made

Work with Purpose

A Saco woodshop builds iconic Maine furniture — and better lives for employees with disabilities.
Quoddy Footwear, Lewiston, Maine
DooryardMaking it in Maine

On Their Feet

A rejuvenated Quoddy Footwear finds a niche in the maker movement.
Jotul Stoves
Arts & Culture

All Stove Up

Shopping for a woodstove recently, we flipped through the catalog of Norwegian stove maker Jøtul, finding more than half of the 18 featured stoves and fireplace inserts bore Maine place names.
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