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Maine Novels to Add to Your Summer Reading List
Arts & Leisure

6 Maine Novels to Add to Your Summer Reading List

A dystopian future wrought by secessionist Mainers. A family drama on a Penobscot reservation. A seaside home with a century’s worth of secrets.
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Food & Drink

In Praise of the Stow Corner Store

There’s just one option for stocking up on essentials or grabbing a meal at the edge of Maine's stretch of White Mountain National Forest. Luckily, it’s an awfully good one.
The recently muralized Gem Theater, in Bethel Maine
Travel & Outdoors

Fryeburg and Bethel Are Notch Your Average Towns

Get to know Maine’s funky White Mountains gateway communities.
Travel & Outdoors

The Best Swimming Holes in Maine’s White Mountains

The perfect place to cool off after a mountain hike — or just while away a summer afternoon.
Travel & Outdoors

The 8 Best Day Hikes in Maine’s White Mountains

Four gentle treks and four high-country rambles through Maine’s stretch of the Whites.
Land, Water & Wildlife

An Unlikely Rescue in the Kennebec Gorge — And Its Aftermath

A close call on the Kennebec interrupted author Franklin Burroughs’s life. Two years later, he reflects on the accident and on the changes since — for him and for all of us.
Where in Maine, August 2022
Photography

Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer

Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from August's photo.
Brickett Place, White Mountain National Forest’s oldest preserved structure.
History

Brickett? I Hardly Know It

Now you will, thanks to our helpful timeline of Brickett Place, the White Mountain National Forest’s oldest preserved structure.
Land, Water & Wildlife

Fanfare for the Common Bird

Familiarity does not breed contempt, but the reverse.
Old photo of members of the Brushians, a Portland-based painting group, are, from left, George Frederick Morse, Frank Louville Bowie, John T. Wood, and John Calvin Stevens
History

Meet the Old Whites Guys

The White Mountain Club of Portland was one of the first hiking clubs in the country — and among the earliest mappers and trailblazers of the Whites.
Travel & Outdoors

Welcome to Maine’s White Mountains

New Hampshire might claim the biggest piece, but Maine’s slice of the White Mountain National Forest has a grandeur all its own.
Home + Garden

In an Orono Yard, One Plant Led to Another

And another. Until it was chockablock with vibrant varieties, from native to tropical.
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