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Can You Name This Waterfront Roadway?

It's the longtime social center of its namesake town, a destination for shopping, dining, and lodging for more than a century.
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Maine’s Somali Bantus Are Reenvisioning American Farming

On 104 acres in Wales, the farmers of the Little Jubba agrarian commons are demonstrating another model for American agriculture — and replanting what was once uprooted.
Latte art is on display at Rwanda Bean’s new Thompson’s Point café.
Food & Drink

Maine’s Rwanda Bean Is Committed to Its Coffee Farmers

The micro-chain has new cafes in Portland and...Kigali?
Congratulations to the Winners of Our 2021 Down East Lobster Roll Competition
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Congratulations to the Winners of the 2021 Down East Lobster Roll Competition!

The results have been tallied, and we’re proud to announce the top three!
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Travel & Outdoors

The 30 Best Trails in Acadia National Park

From all across Maine’s diverse and dazzling national park, our favorite trails for every kind of adventurer.
lamb meatballs with red-pepper coulis and tzatziki from the Portage Tap House
Food & Drink

Portage Tap House Is the Hangout Oquossoc Needed

Paul and Laura Reynolds didn’t want to drive to Rangeley for dinner. So they opened a restaurant.
Donnell Pond, Maine
Travel & Outdoors

3 Under-the-Radar Maine Weekend Getaways

Summer is rapidly waning, but there's still time to plan one of these last-minute-friendly, so-very-Maine escapes.
Our Towns

Get to Know the Towns of Mount Desert Island

MDI has plenty of gems outside the bounds of Acadia National Park.
5 Breathtaking Bike Routes in Acadia National Park
Travel & Outdoors

5 Breathtaking Bike Routes in Acadia National Park

On two wheels in one of the country’s most bikeable parks.
Razorback Trail, on Mansell Mountain
Travel & Outdoors

5 of Acadia National Park’s Best High-Country Trails

Clinging to cliffs and traversing above tree line, Acadia at its most rugged.
Golden MacDonald, photographed in 1934. Photo courtesy of the North Haven Historical Society, North Haven, Maine
History

How a Maine Fisherman Became Margaret Wise Brown’s Alter Ego

Golden MacDonald was the celebrated “author” of The Little Island and other classics.
Food & Drink

Night of Lobster

Seventy-five years ago, the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and essayist Robert P. Tristram Coffin penned a timeless tribute to one of Maine’s simplest pleasures. Its influence would reverberate through contemporary food writing.
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