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lamb meatballs with red-pepper coulis and tzatziki from the Portage Tap House
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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.
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11 Pieces of Maine-Sourced Gear for Your Outdoor Summer

No matter how you play, we have your gear needs covered.
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Can You Name This Maine Mapping Marvel?

Its eastern and western termini are about equidistant from this spot, in two towns synonymous with Maine’s wild-blueberry industry.
Bri Dostie, founder of Confluence Collective
Land, Water & Wildlife

Confluence Collective Is Out to Make Fishing More Welcoming

Meet Maine’s Bri Dostie, winner of Orvis’s 2020 Breaking Barriers award.
Mike Baker fishing from his electric-powered kayak
Land, Water & Wildlife

Mike Baker Lands Heavy Fish and Leaves a Light Carbon Footprint

The Arundel guide is an evangelist for electric-powered kayaks.
From Wiscasset's Water Street Kitchen & Bar: paella with Maine mussels and littlenecks; roasted lobster with whiskey- tarragon butter; truffle fries
Food & Drink

Water Street Kitchen & Bar Puts a Mediterranean Spin on Maine Seafood

Chef-owner Ed Colburn' fresh dishes are bringing the flavors of Spain, France, and Italy to Wiscasset.
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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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Maine’s Best Small-Town Downtowns

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Can the Soul of “America’s Environmental College” Survive Digital Disruption?

The president of central Maine’s small, scrappy Unity College is out to shake up the educational status quo. His detractors say he’s gutting a unique and vital institution. What’s next for the school is anybody’s guess.
Mark Freeman spent this spring continuing to tinker with Foolish Pleasure while it was perched on a trailer on the side of Route 1 in York.
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Foolish Pleasure, The World’s Fastest Lobsterboat, Rides Again

After the untimely death of its longtime owner, the famously fast lobsterboat motors back onto Maine’s racing circuit.
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Land, Water & Wildlife

To Chef Pone Vattaso, Maine’s Catfish Are a Real Catch

The little-exalted fish reminds the Laotian-born Mainer of the moose-sized river beasts back home.
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The Stories Behind Five Classic Maine Fly Patterns

The “Tom Brady of fishing flies,” an overachieving underdog, and more.
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