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August 2020

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Where in Maine?
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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer

Here is our favorite letter from August's Where in Maine photo.
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Arts & Leisure

Wonderful Things

"In these days of such stillness, chaos, and grief, we’ve got time to figure out what needs to heal and how we might help that happen."
The AnchoBurger at Ancho Honey in Tenants Harbor, Maine
Food & Drink

Ancho Honey’s Delicious Timing

What happens when you start serving ready-made meals right before a pandemic?
Amy Pollien stands in front of a hoop house where she keeps art supplies so she can set up her easel in the garden. At her feet is a mound of composting garden waste and other organic materials — a future vegetable bed.
Home + Garden

A Cheerful Mess

Controlled chaos yields a bounty of vegetables and flowers in Bar Harbor.
Virginia M. Wright's favorite place, Little Hunters Beach, Acadia National Park
Our Towns

Virginia M. Wright’s Favorite Maine Place

Our departing editor loves a little-visited Acadia Beach.
Nicholson Baker
Arts & Leisure

Germ Warfare, State Secrets, and Quiet Strolls

In his new book, Baseless, Nicholson Baker digs into government cover-ups and finds solace in Maine.
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Maine-Made

13 Pieces of Maine-Made Gear for Your Outdoor Summer

Backpacks to bug spray to . . . buoy bats?
History

In Search of the Old Home Place

For a rootless descendant of some of Maine’s earliest settlers, solace is a quiet shore on a secluded tidal bay.
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Meet Maine’s Pétanque Evangelist

A French lawn finds its champion in a state with deep Franco-American history.
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Food & Drink

Maine Farms Make a Stand

With demand from restaurants way down, farmers find other ways to keep up during the pandemic.
Percival Baxter, fellow legislators, the state’s chief warden and fish-and-game commissioner exploring what would become Baxter State Park
History

The 100-Year-Old Hiking Trip that Changed Maine Forever

Before he was Maine's greatest benefactor, Percival Baxter was just another nature-loving politico huffing and puffing up Katahdin.
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Arts & Leisure

A Summer Without Maine

Daydreams of a secret sanctuary keep one writer tethered to the Pine Tree State.
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Doughnuts in Maine: From Inception to Perfection

May 2025 Where in Maine? photo clue

Can You Name This Maine Mountain?

Longfellow Books, Portland, Maine

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