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Sara Anne Donnelly
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Sara Anne Donelly is a Down East contributing editor.
a former hydroelectric powerhouse in Norridgewock, Maine
Home + Garden

How a Norridgewock Powerhouse Became an Artful Residence

Mandy Lamb got a charge out of turning this former hydroelectric hub into her home.
Britt and Anthony, pictured with their kids, Charlie, 12, and Hadley, 10 outside their Bar Harbor home
Home + Garden

A New Build for a Family with Old Ties to MDI

Immediate and extended family helped with this Bar Harbor build, and the whole extended clan cheered them on.
Fortland glamping site #16 at House Island’s Fort Scammel
Home + Garden

A New Portland Glamping Spot Mixes Style with 19th-Century Military History

Just a 10-minute ride from South Portland, Fortland feels worlds away.
Meghan Smith is popular among collectors of finely made miniatures.
Maine-Made

The Most Beautiful Furniture Crafted in Brewer is Three Inches Tall

Miniaturist Meghan Smith’s tiny creations have a huge amount of detail.
Designer Jared DeSimio sewing in his Brunswick studio
Maine-Made

Brunswick Designer Jared DeSimio Piles Clothes on His Roof For Weeks — Then Sells Them

His weathered, sun-bleached “Shed Collection” is just one of his upcycled creations.
Devin Mauch at work
Maine-Made

The Ballroom Thieves’ Former Drummer Traded Music for Pyrography

Devin Mauch's passion for woodburning inspired him to launch the Wild Electric.
exterior of kennebunkport dome home
Home + Garden

A New Owner Is Bowled Over By His Kennebunkport Domed Home

Built in 2003 by sculptor Daphne Pulsifer, it's an inhabitable "piece of art."
the Eliot modular accessory dwelling unit (ADU) produced by BrightBuilt Home for Glenn Close's episode of Celebrity IOU
Home + Garden

A Mini Eliot Dwelling Debuts on HGTV with Actress Glenn Close

The Emmy Winner surprised a friend with a backyard ADU designed by BrightBuilt Home.
Bedroom in Goose Rocks Lighthouse
Home + Garden

She Calls This Lighthouse Home

Off North Haven, a painstakingly restored, sumptuously furnished, 19th-century lighthouse is a beacon of pride for its owner.
Aaron Letourneau standing beneath a cattle-panel fencing tunnel of gourds
Home + Garden

Lord of the Gourds

A New Gloucester gardener presides over tunnels burgeoning with the bulbous fruit that fuels his art.
A dissected frog quilled by Stacy Bettencourt
Maine-Made

The Maine Artist Pushing the Boundaries of Paper Quilling

“I don’t think people realize the potential of paper,” says Quantum Artistic’s Stacy Bettencourt.
South Berwick’s Emily McLaughlin, Tom Beattie, and their 4-year-old twins, Willa and Gus, hang out by the heart they created with ash and walnut firewood.
Home + Garden

The Art of the Woodpile

These creative Mainers are elevating wood stacking to an art form.
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