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Features
Best of Maine!
For months, we’ve been eating, shopping, road-tripping, and arguing for our picks. Presenting Maine’s best everything, plus the results of our reader poll. How’d your favorites do?
Endless Summer
Welcome to Kezar Lake, where the water ever beckons, the pace is undemanding, and one day folds softly into the next. –By Virginia M. Wright
Slice of Life
Nothing says Maine summer like a slice of berry pie on a sunny day. We dish on 12 terrific pie shops, Rockland’s pie-baking (and side-splitting) grandmas, and more. –By Annemarie Ahearn
The Destroyer
Revisiting the harrowing night, 150 years ago this month, when the Great Fire of Portland wiped half of the Forest City off the map. –By Andrew Vietze
Departments
Where in Maine?
Can you name this bridge and the town where it’s found?
Connect
The Mail
North by East
Opinions, Advisories, and Musings from the Length and Breadth of Maine
Down East Dispatches
News You May Have Missed
Bunker, Sweet Bunker
What’s in a Picture
Q&A
Dooryard
Living the Maine Life
Home
Garden
Making It in Maine
Recipe
My Maine
Room With a View
Guide
What to Do in Maine This Month
Dining
Scarborough’s Pine Point Grille
Art
Event
Book
Music
From Our Archives
Cover Photograph: Fireworks over Camden, by Benjamin Williamson
Additional photographs: Cait Bourgault; Douglas Merriam; Michael Wilson; Douglas Merriam