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Features
Flower Power
Farmers across the state are banding together to take on the hegemony of imports in local flower shops. If they succeed, Maine floriculture could hit full bloom.
By Katy Kelleher
A Vision In Black and White
In the 1970s and ’80s, Joel Greenberg schlepped a bulky, old view camera all over Vinalhaven, capturing the island’s landscape and people. Now, he has compiled more than 100 of those images in a coffee-table book that is resonating with audiences in ways he didn’t see coming.
By Will Grunewald
Uphill Struggle
Big Moose Mountain should be a skiers’ paradise. Instead, years of ownership issues, deteriorating infrastructure, and unrealized ambitions have reduced the locally beloved resort to a shadow of its former self. Can anyone give the place a much-needed lift?
By Adrienne Perron
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A Pine Tree State guide to the golden years.
Departments
North by East
A Waldoboro builder turns Vacationland into Legoland, Caribou’s natural-history center digs into prehistory, and a mother’s old diaries lights up TikTok. Plus, in Maine Dispatches, a personal best in Millinocket’s half marathon.
Food and Drink
A Mapleton chip maker is frying as fast as it can to keep up with demand, an acclaimed Brunswick restaurant reopens, and a new dessert bar in Kennebunk swirls inventive flavors with bold interior design.
Good Things from Maine
Locally sourced essentials take the chill off a Maine winter, a Bowdoinham artist makes whimsical tableware, and a vending machine dispenses tiny pieces of art.
Maine Homes
Wood finishes (and a wood-fired sauna) warm a Lincolnville retreat, mod Italian design takes up residence in a Freeport sea captain’s house, and a preservationist becomes a beacon to . . . beacons.
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Maine Moment
Where in Maine
Dooryard
Editor’s note, responses to December’s Where in Maine, the masthead, and more.
Columns
Room with a View
My Favorite Place
Telling Room executive director Kristina M.J. Powell, on the Portland Public Library.
On our Cover: Down East contributor Adrienne Perron on Big Moose Mountain, by Dave Waddell
Additional Photos: Nicole Wolf, Joel Greenburg, and Benjamin Williamson