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Where in Maine? February 2024
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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 February’s photo.
Portland Public Library
Our Towns

Kristina M.J. Powell’s Favorite Maine Place

When the Telling Room executive director needs to quiet her mind, she heads to the sun-drenched atrium of the Portland Public Library.
Rococo Dessert Bar in Kennebunk, Maine
Food & Drink

In Kennebunk, Rococo Dessert Bar Swirls Inventive Flavors With Bold Interior Design

The ice-cream shop is inspired by owner Lauren Guptill’s world travels and love of extravagant 18th-century rococo design.
Food & Drink

Fox Family Potato Chips Are Getting Harder and Harder to Find

The Mapleton chip maker is frying as fast as it can to keep up with fans’ voracious appetites.
Ford Reiche in a boat near Halfway Rock Light
Home + Garden

Ford Reiche Is a Beacon to Maine’s Forsaken Landmarks

The entrepreneur and preservationist who rescued Halfway Rock Light has set his sights on Harpswell’s Little Mark Island Monument.
Colby Adolphsen and his lego village
Maine-Made

A Waldoboro Miniaturist Turns Vacationland into Legoland

Colby Adolphsen is bringing well-known Maine buildings to Lego-life.
Anastasia Inciardi stands for a portrait in Soleli, a shopping and retail shop located in the Old Port of Portland, Maine
Maine-Made

A Portland Printmaker’s Vending Machines Are Popping Up All Over

Anastasia Inciardi’s riff on a lobby mainstay spits out tiny artworks for a dollar apiece.
Maine-Made

The Internet Can’t Get Enough of Dominique Ostuni’s Gilded, Whimsical Porcelain

The Bowdoinham ceramicist releases new pottery collections on her website twice a month, and they sell out within minutes.
Down East contributor Adrienne Perron on Big Moose Mountain
Our Towns

This Classic Maine Mountain Should Be a Skiers’ Paradise

Instead, years of ownership issues, deteriorating infrastructure, and unrealized ambitions have reduced Big Moose to a shadow of its former self. Can anyone give the old resort a much-needed lift?
rainbow dried flower wreath
Home + Garden

The Maine Flower Collective Wants You to Pick Locally Grown Bouquets

Farmers across the state are banding together to take on the hegemony of imports in local flower shops. If they succeed, Maine floriculture could hit full bloom.
Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson, Maine
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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 December’s photo.
Tao Yaun's new chef de cuisine Leon Vuong introduced crispy rice balls studded with pork, Chinese sausage, and shiitake to the menu
Food & Drink

Brunswick’s Tao Yuan Has Mounted a Pretty Sweet Comeback

Closed for more than three years, the acclaimed restaurant is back — and as laudable as ever.
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Doughnuts in Maine: From Inception to Perfection

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Longfellow Books, Portland, Maine

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