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the Great Fire of Portland
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The Night Portland Burned

In 1866, the Great Fire of Portland was the most devastating blaze ever to strike an American city. Revisiting a harrowing night that left half of Portland in ashes.
Kezar Lake, Maine5
Travel & Outdoors

Endless Summer

The lake is ever ready, the pace is undemanding, and one day folds softly into the next. This is Kezar.
Poutine
Best of Maine

Best of Maine 2016: Cheap Eats

The finest offerings in the 11 primary food groups of Maine budget dining.
Yardbird Canteen
Best of Maine

Best of Maine 2016: Food & Drink

Restaurants, diners, lobster shacks, food trucks, beer. Presenting Maine’s Best Food & Drink selections, including Readers' Choice winners!
Patten’s Dri-Ki Woodworking
Arts & Leisure

Paddling with the Current

Patten’s Dri-Ki Woodworking may well have made part of your favorite canoe — and if you’re lucky, easygoing owner Rick Keim made your paddle.
Best of Maine, Arts and Media
Best of Maine

Best of Maine 2016: Arts & Media

Presenting Maine’s Best Arts & Media selections, including Readers' Choice winners!
Wiggly Bridge
Travel & Outdoors

Our Favorite Letter

Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from the July photo of Wiggly Bridge in York Harbor.
Tricky Britches
Arts & Leisure

Old Tricks

Portland’s Tricky Britches channels a classic bluegrass sound — sans porkpie hats.
Sunset over Deer Pond
Arts & Leisure

Doc

A friendship that reaches across generations is too rare a thing — and its lessons are too valuable to ignore.
An old Nike missile base in northern Maine
Arts & Leisure

Bunker, Sweet Bunker

An old Nike missile base in northern Maine could withstand the end times. Read on if you want to live.
Maine's Year Without a Summer
History

Maine’s Year Without a Summer

These days we might worry about winters growing too warm, but in 1816, Mainers faced the opposite problem: a frigid summer.
From our Archives, July 1967
Arts & Leisure

Taking to the Water

From the unsigned “Letter from Home” column in our July 1967 issue.
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