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Michaela Cavallaro is a Down East contributing editor.
Longfellow Books, Portland, Maine
Arts & Leisure

7 Independent Bookstores That Maine Authors Love

We asked Stephen King, Lois Lowry, and other noteworthy writers where they go to find their next good read.
Home + Garden

There’s Plenty of Wisdom to Unearth In a Brooksville Vegetable Grower’s New Book

Barbara Damrosch hopes her guide to growing organic food, A Life in the Garden, plants a seed.
Ange Muhorakeye working on one of her handwoven baskets
Maine-Made

A New Mainer Rediscovers a Traditional Rwandan Art Form

And she hopes it will change lives in her home country.
Rococo Dessert Bar in Kennebunk, Maine
Food & Drink

In Kennebunk, Rococo Dessert Bar Swirls Inventive Flavors With Bold Interior Design

The ice-cream shop is inspired by owner Lauren Guptill’s world travels and love of extravagant 18th-century rococo design.
The Crying Tiger, with grilled sirloin, garlic rice, and chili-garlic-lime and Jaew sauces.
Food & Drink

Mitr Ping Yang Thai Kitchen Is Connecting Its Guests to a Wider Range of Flavors

The menu at the new Portland restaurant skews toward Thai street food.
Exotic plants, such as lofty euphorbia trigonas, mingle with home-grown squash and dahlias in Erica Berman and Alain Ollier’s Newcastle living room.
Home + Garden

In Newcastle, Parisian Transplants Build a New Home With an Old-World Feel

The farmhouse is also home to a nonprofit farm that grows produce and flowers for local schools and food pantries.
Audrey Mahlman (back row center), pictured with her daughter, Olive (seated at left), and her friends in Mahlman’s crocheted hats.
Maine-Made

A Maine Mother’s Crochetwear Raises Money for the Cancer Program That Embraced Her Family

Through Healing Loops, York needleworker Audrey Mahlman sells handmade hats, blankets, and scarves to benefit Christopher’s Haven.
Maine Novels to Add to Your Summer Reading List
Arts & Leisure

6 Maine Novels to Add to Your Summer Reading List

A dystopian future wrought by secessionist Mainers. A family drama on a Penobscot reservation. A seaside home with a century’s worth of secrets.
The mural It’s a Beautiful Day, Whenever We’re Together, by Ryan Adams and Rachel Gloria Adams (pictured with developer Chris Thompson), welcomes visitors to Thompson’s Point.
Arts & Leisure

How an Old Portland Train Depot Became an Engine for the Arts

From the beginning, filling Thompson's Point with public art was integral to the developers' plans.
a Greek Revival, built by Captain Joseph Drinkwater in the mid-19th century
Home + Garden

A Yarmouth Couple Regroups After Discovering Lead in Their Greek Revival

They moved out, then put their kitchen and living-room reno budget toward remediation.
a tree-house compound on Monmouth’s Cobbosseecontee Lake
Home + Garden

A Tree-House Compound Takes Root On Monmouth’s Cobbosseecontee Lake

The latest addition: a triple-decker retreat with a towering spiral staircase.
Pistil & Page in Gardiner, Maine
Home + Garden

These New Maine Shops Are Part of a Growing Houseplant Trend

With demand for houseplants soaring since the start of the pandemic and “plantfluencers” proliferating on Instagram, three new shops aim to help Mainers achieve their #indoorjungle goals.
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