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Wannawaf’s Bark & Bite hot dog
Food & Drink

Dog Almighty!

We hunted down a half-dozen of the craziest, messiest, tastiest franks at stands, food trucks, and sit-downs all across Maine.
raking Maine wild blueberries
Land, Water & Wildlife

Blueberry Blues

Growers leave fields unharvested as they confront plummeting prices and a glut of frozen berries.
Home + Garden

Rough Diamond

This Great Diamond Island home incorporates Fort McKinley surviving brick-and-concrete fire commander tower into its contemporary design
Palace Playland's Sea Viper
Travel & Outdoors

Summer of Speed

Palace Playland’s newest coaster brings the heat.
Castle Rock
Arts & Leisure

“Who the Hell Stays in a Town Like This?”

One of the co-creators of Hulu’s new Castle Rock on yet another Maine mill town that’s down and out. Waaaay out.
Maine Coast Heritage Trust
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Where in Maine

Can you name this pleasantly pastoral isle?
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Going Bigger

This summer, the Maine Outdoor Film Festival kicks off its seventh running with a shorts contest, Broke and Stoked, for in-state filmmakers only.
Aroostook potato country
My Favorite Place

John Cariani’s Favorite Place

The actor and playwright remembers an Aroostook landscape like no other.
agritourism in Maine
Food & Drink

Your Next Night Out is in a Barn

Some of Maine’s liveliest spots for dinner and drinks these days are down on the farm — and for some Maine farmers, the gastronomic “barn social” is a key part of a new agrarian model.
Friendship, Maine
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Our Favorite Letter

Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from June's photo of Friendship.
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Dawnland

Author Porter Fox spent two years traversing the U.S.–Canada boundary, looking to better understand the wild borderland that rarely makes the news.
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