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A Trump-Loving Impresaria, Her Immigrant Workers, and the Future of a Maine Institution

After her husband died in 2013, Jeanette Gilmore took over Smokey’s Greater Shows, an institution on the Maine festival circuit. But in 50+ years of fairgrounds, Ferris wheels, and a fluctuating workforce, life on the midway hasn’t gotten any easier. Welcome to the carnival.
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I Lived Inside Christina’s World for Three Years

Novelist Christina Baker Kline has spent the last three years immersed in Wyeth’s most famous work. A dispatch from inside Christina’s World.
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Land, Water & Wildlife

Nearly 40 Years Photographing Maine’s Puffins

From windswept islands in a warming Gulf of Maine, Derrick Z. Jackson documents Maine’s puffin colonies in intimate, dazzling detail.
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Travel & Outdoors

The Queen of the Kennebec Winds Down Her Reign

Rafting pioneer Suzie Hockmeyer’s wild, 41-year ride.
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10 Maine Cheeses You Need to Try

The time for Maine-made cheese is now.
Stranger in the Woods
Arts & Leisure

The Stranger in the Woods

In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, Michael Finkel explains the origins of the whispered myth that haunted central Maine for decades.
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Keepers of the Trail

We checked in with five trail stewards, from all walks of life, who help make Maine’s 282 miles of trail a wilderness experience like no other.
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Best of Maine 2017
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We spend all year thinking about it and countless hours tabulating your votes for it. See our annual list of Maine’s best everything.
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Arts & Leisure

The Mystery of Maine Mystery Writers

We live in one of the least homicidal, most neighborly places in the country. Why has crime fiction become our de facto state literary genre?
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Mother Hen

With a popular blog and three books, Lisa Steele is spreading the gospel of (pretty) backyard chicken keeping.
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Garden Party

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Sheets, Shoots, & Leaves

A new compendium shows off the archival illustrations of Kate Furbish, Maine’s swashbuckling Victorian botanist.
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