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window glass with acid-etched stripes helps prevent bird collisions
Home + Garden

This Durham Home Is Maine’s First Bird-Safe Residential Building

Bird lovers Jeannette and Derek Lovitch installed acid-etched windows to prevent window strikes.
Lights Out Gallery founders Karlë Woods, Reed McLean, and Daniel Sipe in an under- construction studio
Arts & Leisure

Can Norway’s New Lights Out Gallery Power an Artistic Surge?

The nonprofit aims to transform a tumbledown old snowshoe factory into a creative hub.
Stacy Wentworth (wearing a green sweater) shoots the breeze at the Kennebunk Farmers’ Market
Our Towns

Shooting the Breeze with Stacy Wentworth at the Kennebunk Farmers’ Market

A popular topic of conversation, he says, is the relentless pace of change in Kennebunk.
Brian Allen fixing a lamp, at the Lamp Repair Shop in South Portland
Maine-Made

In South Portland, the Lamp Repair Shop Shines a Light on the Artistry of Old Fixtures

Not to throw shade, but new lamps have nothing on Brian Allen’s rehabbed antiques.
Wedding Cake House, Kennebunk, Maine
Home + Garden

Restoring Kennebunk’s Wedding Cake House Is No Piece of Cake

Keeping up the landmark that resembles an elaborate confection hasn’t always been sweet.
Casa Alchimia sitting room
Home + Garden

Mod Italian Design Takes Up Residence In a Freeport Sea Captain’s House

The owners of Casa Alchimia rebuilt the interior in the image of their favorite Italian boutique hotels.
Savannah Saccarelli, owner of Muh.Kaa.Bruh, with her arthropod art
Maine-Made

Saco Maker Savannah Saccarelli’s Arthropod Art Is Scary Good

Her company name, Muh.Kaa.Bruh, nods to the grim perception many folks have of her art.
Blue Butterfield in her airy studio at Portland’s Peregrine Press
Maine-Made

Portland Printmaker Blue Butterfield’s Memoir Cuts Deep

Maine: A Love Story comprises 32 essays illustrated with her woodcut prints.
Claude Ouellet, also known around Old Orchard Beach as Frenchy or Birdman
Maine-Made

Meet Old Orchard Beach’s Renegade Birdhouse Guy

To build the quirkily expressive birdhouses that hang all over town, Claude Ouellet wings it with whatever materials he has handy.
Taxidermist Bethany Hickey working on a silver pied peacock
Maine-Made

Death Becomes a Scarborough Artist’s Lifelike Birds

Bethany Hickey, a.k.a. the Taxidermy Chick, specializes in preserving peafowl of all varieties.
Maine-Made

The Internet Can’t Get Enough of Dominique Ostuni’s Gilded, Whimsical Porcelain

The Bowdoinham ceramicist releases new pottery collections on her website twice a month, and they sell out within minutes.
Our Towns

Sailor Cole Brauer’s Favorite Maine Place

When she's not racing solo around the world, she enjoys mornings on her parents' dock on Boothbay's Back River.
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