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Sara Anne Donelly is a Down East contributing editor.
Pine shou sugi ban siding defines Josh Gerritsen’s Lincolnville passive house
Home + Garden

Charred Is the New Black

Shou sugi ban, an ancient Japanese wood-finishing technique, is catching fire in Maine.
Home + Garden

All in Good Fun

A Belfast home brimming with art, curios, and color.
front of home
Home + Garden

Home at Last

After several itinerant decades, a couple puts down roots in historic Paris Hill.
Illustration of differing beliefs around a table
Arts & Leisure

Culture Clash

With Disgraced, Portland Stage dives into an escalating national debate over religion, ethnicity, and American identity.
Dennis Spinney dives for curly-leaf pondweed in West Pond
Land, Water & Wildlife

The Weed Wackers

Southern Maine’s lakes, ponds, and rivers are under siege. Invasive weeds, inadvertently imported on boats from out of state, are choking out native plants, starving fish of oxygen, and restricting boat access.
Return of the Old-Timers
Arts & Leisure

Return of the Old-Timers

With a playlist of swing and boogie-woogie tunes, the all-volunteer WYAR is gaining enthusiastic listeners — and many of them are under 35.
The Woods Maine treehouse built by Treehouse Masters star Pete Nelson
Home + Garden

Up, Up, and Away!

A treehouse built by a nationally recognized master grows in Norway.
Home + Garden

Home Depot

In the 1970s, an 1887 York Village train station was converted into a three-bedroom house. After a few more renovations, the Albrights are happy to call the depot home.
Home + Garden

Labor of Love

A father designs an accessible, energy-efficient home for his quadriplegic daughter.
Ghost Town4
Our Towns

Stephen King Grew Up In This Small Maine Town. You Can Kind of Tell.

Like the famous author it raised, Durham is quiet and a little weird, with some strange stuff going on upstairs.
The Corner, Lewiston, Maine
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True Confessions

A storytelling scene grows in Lewiston at The Corner.
Maine-Made

Finding Her Form

Japanese pottery in Union.
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