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July 2017

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Where in Maine?

Our Favorite Letter

Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to "Where in Maine?" Here is our favorite letter from July 2017.
Lake at Night
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Room With a View

The loon call so hauntingly transcends its purpose. The sound is full of eerie seeking, as of a lost soul for a lost world.
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Peaceful & Pristine

Residents of Grand Lake Stream have safeguarded thousands of acres of forest. Now they’re fighting for their community’s future.
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Swig of the Month

Some 20 years ago, Richard’s wife, Jean, gave him a hobby winemaking kit. Two years ago, the couple opened a winery on the farm.
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Town-Gown Reboot

A century ago, Waterville helped bail out a struggling Colby College. Can Colby return the favor?
Making Art, Making a Life
Maine-Made

Making Art, Making a Life

Midcoast “nature people” Kate and Jonathan Mess push boundaries in the gallery, keep it real at home.
Zucchini Fritters
Food & Drink

Annemarie Ahearn’s Zucchini Fritters Recipe

Spend your time in the kitchen dealing deliciously with that abundance of squash.
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The Fort

Of all the happy summers I spent on Southport Island, I think that summer was my happiest.
Christina and Me
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I Lived Inside Christina’s World for Three Years

Novelist Christina Baker Kline has spent the last three years immersed in Wyeth’s most famous work. A dispatch from inside Christina’s World.
Best of Maine 2017
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Best of Maine 2017
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We spend all year thinking about it and countless hours tabulating your votes for it. See our annual list of Maine’s best everything.
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Out of the Blue

And into the black? A pair of winemaking buddies is betting on Maine blueberry bubbly.
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From our Archives
July 1994

From “Just Say Moo” by Virginia Thorndike in our July 1994 issue. It was not as easy to take these pictures as you might think.
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