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Paul Doiron is Down East‘s former editor and the bestselling author of the Mike Bowditch crime novels, including The Poacher’s Son and Widowmaker.
Sunset over Deer Pond
Arts & Leisure

Doc

A friendship that reaches across generations is too rare a thing — and its lessons are too valuable to ignore.
Deer Pond in the Great Northern Maine Woods. Taken August 2014 by JoAnne Lambdin.
Arts & LeisureRoom With a View

Divos of the Wetlands

If Jeremiah was a bullfrog, he would be a good friend of Paul’s — never mind how loud he was at night.
Limington, Maine
Room With a View

Through a Glass Coldly

Real talk: Maine winters aren’t nearly as bad as we act like they are. So cheer up! (And don’t close up shop!)
Paul Doiron, Magazine of Maine, Down East Magazine
Arts & LeisureRoom With a View

Lingua Franca

Assimilation shouldn’t mean leaving your language behind.
Room With a View
Room With a View

Stinkin’ to High Heaven

Ask any rural Mainer: There’s more than one way to wash a skunked dog. None are pleasant, though.
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Priceless

Sometimes the only way to explain the allure of nature is to talk dollars and cents.
Woods
Arts & LeisureRoom With a View

We Want to Believe

No matter the evidence (or lack of it), fantastic creatures will always roam the Maine woods.
After the Rain, Pete Talbot
Arts & LeisureRoom With a View

The Winter Excuse

It’s the season for finding reasons to remain indoors and stationary, but one bold Mainer will no longer be deterred. (Or will he?)
Snow
Arts & LeisureRoom With a View

Season of Myths

Big blizzards have a way of getting bigger in the telling. Maybe it’s because they reassure us that we are not alone.
Paul Doiron, Magazine of Maine, Down East Magazine
Arts & LeisureRoom With a View

A Man and His Clothes

Call it a fashion faux pas, but this Mainer is standing by his utterly predictable L.L. Bean wardrobe.
Spring garden, by Maja Petric
Home + Garden

Notes on Springtime

Spring in Maine, as E.B. White observed, is a haphazard season, best described in anecdotes.
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Fit to Be Tied

A fly-tying obsession helps ease the long transition from winter into spring.
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