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August 2019

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Romesco sauce
Recipes

Summer Spread

Grilled veggies get saucy.
spruce beer
Food & Drink

Getting Tipsy

Brewers are tapping into a Maine woods tradition.
Room With a View

North Bend Road

If we give what’s wild half a chance, it will, as these fish teach us, do the hard part.
Crown Jewel
Food & Drink

Crown Jewel

There’s a new gem on Great Diamond, and it shines flamingo pink.
Knight Moves
Arts & Leisure

Knight Moves

A New York playwright’s reimagining of Arthurian legend premieres at a Deer Isle jelly maker’s sculpture garden.
beach stone jewelry
Maine-Made

Beach Baubles

Some Maine jewelers take the phrase “precious stones” quite littoral-y.
Collector’s Items
Arts & Leisure

Collector’s Items

A new book paints a fresh picture of one of Maine’s most impressive art collections.
Fixit Farm
Maine-Made

Meet the Worm Wranglers

Chatting with the worm wranglers of FixIt Farm.
Home + Garden

Endless Hosta-bilities

A retired farmer uses variations in leaf form and color to compose harmonious gardens on a seventh-generation family homestead.
Estcourt Station
Our Towns

The Remote Maine Town Cut Off By the Border

A speck of a village at the northernmost tip of Maine, Estcourt Station is (sometimes literally) the place you can’t get to from here.
Treasure This
Maine-Made

Treasure This

Find everything from milk cans to Jamie Wyeth prints in old-fashioned Cornish, where even the shops have past lives.
Nature Conservancy and The St. John River
Land, Water & Wildlife

Return to the Goodly River

Twenty years ago, a motley band of guides, foresters, and conservationists put in on northern Maine’s remote upper St. John River to sketch out an audacious conservation plan. This summer, they returned to take stock.
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