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Home + Garden

On the Rocks

A family tradition endures on the Pemaquid Peninsula.
Colorfully painted antique tractor seats at Lawrence Lord’s Old Farm Museum, in Alexander, Maine
Travel & Outdoors

Have a Seat!

Lawrence Lord has amassed a collection of iron tractor seats that he diligently scrapes, repaints, and displays in vivid grids on the walls of his two-barn museum.
Cascade Falls, Saco 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 the April photo of Cascade Falls in Saco.
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Food & Drink

A Lot on Your Plate

On a Newcastle back road, locals and visitors gather to celebrate summer, ceramics, and the world’s greatest pop-up salad bar.
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Jumping Ship

As the Portland Pirates leave town, a former player remembers the team’s swashbuckling first season.
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Home + Garden

An Edible Arrangement

A sophisticated garden yields a wholesome bounty in Castine.
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Best of Maine 2016
Shopping & Self

Presenting Maine’s best Shopping & Self selections, including Readers' Choice winners!
Nevada Barr, Boar Island
Arts & Leisure

So You Think You Know Maine?

Something’s gone missing in Nevada Barr’s latest Anna Pigeon mystery: Acadia National Park.
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Yes, Peas!

Move over, gazpacho — local legumes make a supremely summery soup.
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Best of Maine 2016
Travel & Play

We’ve been arguing for months. And eating. And shopping. And road-tripping. And at last, all that hard work has paid off. Presenting Maine’s best Travel and Play, from camping to cruising to hitting the links.
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Maine-Made

Animal Spirits

Printmaker Susan Amons mixes technique and allegory in her otherworldly artwork.
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Food & Drink

Meet the Pie Moms

For the last 14 years, these women have been working for free at the Berry Manor Inn as chambermaids and pie makers, an arrangement they jokingly call “indentured servitude.”
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