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These Maine-made kids’ costumes from Tree and Vine are perfect for Halloween
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These Maine-Made Kids’ Costumes Are Perfect for Halloween

Gray-based Tree and Vine proves there’s no wrong season for playing dress-up.
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The Secrets of New England’s Last Great Old-Growth Forest

The woodland preserve around Big Reed Pond has become a quiet monument to what we've lost and a potent reminder of what we might recover.
In 1991, in Disko Bay, on Greenland’s west coast, the schooner Bowdoin passed an iceberg with a dramatic arch.
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The 100-Year-Old Schooner Bowdoin as It Was Meant to Be Seen — In the Arctic

Revisiting a trove of stunning photos by Maine photographer Tom Stewart, who accompanied Maine’s official state vessel to the far north in the early 1990s.
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Can You Name This Lovely Lakeside Town?

A trail that skirts this lake’s northwestern shore brings thousands of folks into this otherwise quiet town each year.
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Best of Maine 2021

Once again, we asked Down East readers to cast their votes for Maine’s best everything: burgers to bookstores, museums to marinas, art galleries to architects. plus, we’ve sprinkled in picks of our own. How’d your favorites do?
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After Years of Daydreaming, They Bought a Fixer-Upper Sloop

The boat was seaworthy. But were they?
Elizabeth Downs Maine’s 9-year-old beekeeper
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Meet Maine’s 9-Year-Old Beekeeper

In Eddington, fourth-grader Elizabeth Downs tends to some 180,000 resident bees in her backyard.
Virginia Oliver, 101, at the helm of her lobsterboat
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Over 100 and Still Lobstering, Virginia Oliver Is Bemused By Her Celebrity

The Rockland resident won’t stop trapping lobster — and America is eating it up.
Pine Tree Trading on Lisbon Street in Lewiston, Maine
Our Towns

Farewell to a Lewiston Pawnshop

In a changing city, a longtime pawnbroker turns out the lights.
Abby Barrows, the Maine microplastics researcher reenvisioning aquaculture
Land, Water & Wildlife

The Maine Microplastics Researcher Reenvisioning Aquaculture

Stonington’s Abby Barrows dialed back a globetrotting research career to take over an oyster farm in her hometown. Now, she’s out to refashion the equipment of her new profession, to keep Maine’s booming aquaculture sector from fouling the waters it relies upon.
At The Garrison in Yarmouth: Maine monkfish; mango granita; skirt steak; summer-squash salad.
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After a Year And a Half, The Garrison Reopens

The Yarmouth restaurant is picking up where it left off before its long pandemic layoff.
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Rockport’s New Drive-In Is a Beacon for Film Buffs

From its projector room in the top of a lighthouse, the Shotwell Drive-In marries the new and the nostalgic.
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