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February 2017

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Snowy Mountain
Travel & Outdoors

Where in Maine?

Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from the February photo of Sugarloaf Mountain.
Storm
Arts & Leisure

Room With a View

An acorn bonks you on the head, you think the sky is falling and race around telling everyone. But nothing bad happens. What version of Chicken Little were you told?
History

From our Archives: Mush Ado About Something

From “Dog Days in Fort Kent,” by Elizabeth Peavey, in our February 1998 issue.
Oysters on a plate
Food & Drink

Salt Pine Social

Chef Eloise Humphrey's new venture is a freewheeling plunge into modern American cookery.
Ice Harvest
Travel & Outdoors

What’s In a Picture

This year’s ice harvest at Thompson Ice House, complete with hot chocolate and chili for visitors, is scheduled for February 19 — and some of that ice will then end up making ice cream for a social in July.
Students standing side by side
Arts & Leisure

Unlikely Impresarios

Two college kids create a full-blown musical ­— you know, in their spare time.
Bridgton, Maine
Travel & Outdoors

Our Favorite Letter

Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from our January 2017 issue.
Kate Furbish
Arts & Leisure

Sheets, Shoots, & Leaves

A new compendium shows off the archival illustrations of Kate Furbish, Maine’s swashbuckling Victorian botanist.
Oyster on ice
Food & Drink

Aw, Shucks!

Chocolate truffles and heart-shaped candies are for amateurs — true romantics know that oysters make the best Valentine’s Day treat.
House in Snow
Home + Garden

Haystack

Built with straw bales, a Mount Desert Island home is practical, energy efficient, and beautiful.
My Maine
Arts & Leisure

Ida and Her Island

As a kid, I was afraid of Ida. And small wonder: stout and tall, with big hands and a severe face, she was every inch the forbidding Yankee spinster. My idea of Ida shifted slightly one summer morning when I was about 10 years old.
Man Ice Fishing
Our Towns

Jackman is a Cold Frontier

Hard by the Canadian border, the winters are long, the woods are impenetrable, and the roads are lonely. And that’s the way folks in the flinty little town of Jackman like it.
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Doughnuts in Maine: From Inception to Perfection

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