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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.
Night Sky
Arts & Leisure

Room With a View

I need, and refuse to own, a navigational system with a robotic voice saying turn left here, go 200 yards, bear right, etc., etc. I am under the stars, benighted in the shallows, churning up mud, with time and tide running out.
Thrills and Chills
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Thrills and Chills

Cold days and long nights wearing on you? To bust through those mid-winter doldrums, we have four heart-pounding, adrenaline-pumping races for you to check out (or try out) this year.
Munjoy-Hill-Portland
Issues & Politics

Welcome to Portlyn

Ron Currie has some thoughts on Maine’s most rapidly changing city and the gentrification that displaced him from a neighborhood he loves.
Oxford House Inn
Food & DrinkRestaurant Reviews

Oxford House Inn

Oxford House’s ambience hasn’t changed much since the inn opened in 1985, but the cuisine has. Jonathan and Natalie Spak, who bought the place in late 2007, offer contemporary American and Asian-influenced fare.
man wearing Maine snowshoe
Arts & Leisure

From Our Archives: Snowy Two Shoes

From “Trekking on Rawhide,” by Robert Deis, in our January 1980 issue.
Reader Photo Contest
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2017 Down East Reader Photo Contest

Once again, we asked this year for you to send us the photos that best represent your personal vision of Maine — and, man, did you ever respond.
Dooryard Home
Home + Garden

Victorian Revamp

With an eye on a quick sale, a couple updates a tattered old house on Portland’s Munjoy Hill — and they like it so well, they decide to stay.
Pentecost, Peter Ralston
Arts & Leisure

Iconic Maine Photos: An Offbeat Errand, Now a Revered Image

There’s a trace of the sacred in it — in the light, in the title — plus a hint of the absurd, the faintest whiff of the freewheeling nature of that day at sea.
My Maine
Arts & Leisure

Living Deep by the Fire

Home is someplace between Walden and a woodstove.
Iconic Photos
History

Iconic Maine Photos: Kennedy’s Surreal Campaign Trail Moment

There are photos that present the buoyancy of that day, but this one captured something else.
George French
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Iconic Maine Photos: George French’s Epitome of Beach Bliss

George French delivered 20 years worth of stirring images, mostly black-and-white, of pastoral landscapes, but he was also a devoted chronicler of working people.
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