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Our Towns

Lessons on Community — And Its Fragility

For lack of one person in one critical role, a whole community can disintegrate.
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Arts & Leisure

The Curator Who Remixed Rockland

An exit interview with Suzette McAvoy, of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.
a picture window at Stella House in Cushing, Maine
Home + Garden

How a Photographer Pulled Off Her Dream Home in Cushing

“I hadn’t known any single women who built a house without a trust fund or outside help.”
Home + Garden

How Much are Great-Grandpa’s Victorian Boot Fasteners Worth?

Experts evaluate these and other local treasures in the latest installment of our appraisal series.
Spider Man
Land, Water & Wildlife

Meet Maine’s 677 Spiders

It took Daniel Jenning several decades and 71,000 specimens to identify them.
Maine Crisp
Food & Drink

The Maine-iest Cheese and Crackers

What does the founder of Maine Crisp put on her buckwheat crackers?
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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer

Here's our favorite letter from January's Where in Maine photo.
Split Rock Distilling, Spilt Rock Bourbon
Food & Drink

Split Rock Bourbon Comes of Age

Patience has paid off at the Newcastle distillery.
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Our Towns

Clare Egan’s Favorite Maine Place

The World Cup biathlete learned life lessons pulling shifts at an Old Port pizzeria.
Down East's 6th Annual Reader Photo Contest
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6th Annual Down East Reader Photo Contest

This year’s contest saw nearly 1,300 submissions in three categories: landscape, wildlife, and lifestyle. And even in year six of the competition, we can’t stop marveling at our readers’ ability to capture the Maine mystique.
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Land, Water & Wildlife

Coming Home

"Restoring a native species often means introducing it into an altered habitat, which comes with a risk of failure."
Molly Brown, cartographer at Molly Maps
Maine-Made

The SoPo Cartographer Who Turns Maps Into Art

Molly Brown’s graphic paintings navigate the personal and the big picture.
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