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Maine-made lotions, salves, oils, scrubs, and lip treatments
Maine-Made

12 Maine-Made Skin-Care Faves With a Little Vacationland Under the Lid

For the facial-care gurus behind these balms and butters, a commitment to Maine-sourced ingredients is more than skin deep.
Little Falls
Travel & Outdoors

The Six Types of Waterfalls You’ll Find in Maine

A handy primer to learn your punchbowl from your horsetail.
At a circa 1960 festival, King Neptune poses with the Sea Goddess. Photo courtesy of the Maine Lobster Festival
Arts & Leisure

Rockland’s Maine Lobster Festival Says Goodbye to Its Sea Goddess

Instead, the long-running fest will crown a Maine Lobster Festival Delegate.
Lobster Moqueca and the famed local-seafood paella from Havana, in Bar Harbor
Food & Drink

In Bar Harbor, Havana Has Become an Unlikely Classic

In a tourist town that used to be known for straightforward tastes, the Latin-fusion restaurant invented its own niche.
Pontoon leapers on Brandy Pond
Our Towns

In Maine’s Pontoon Capital, a Wet, Hot Lakeside Summer

Pontoon flotillas! Dance parties! Disco-themed booze cruises! The little town of Naples is one big party all season long.
red hot dogs slathered i mustard, with onion rings drizzled with ketchup
Food & Drink

24 Maine Restaurants That Have Stood the Test of Time

Restaurants come and restaurants go, but these true Maine classics only get better with age.
Nubble Light
Photography

Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer

Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from July's photo.
Food & Drink

Ode to the Last Great Red-Sauce Joints

Maine's hearty Italian-American eateries still deserve hearty praise.
Food & Drink

5 of Our Favorite Classic Maine Diners

Most of Maine’s many diners feel almost inherently timeless. These five, though, are top of the class.
Rockport’s Indian Island Light in the foreground with a oil/chemical tanker ship and wind mills in the background
Land, Water & Wildlife

Timber, Coal, Oil, and Wind

Mainers’ fortunes have long been tied to the region’s energy needs.
A sampling of smørrebrød at Trudy Bird’s Ølbar
Food & Drink

At Trudy Bird’s Ølbar, the Smør the Merrier

Scandinavian bread, Southern accents, and Maine beers all meet up at the North Yarmouth gastrobar.
Morgan Bay, in Surry, Maine
Our Towns

Linda Greenlaw’s Favorite Maine Place

The swordfishing captain likes to hike to the cove in Surry’s Morgan Bay at low tide to go clamming.
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Doughnuts in Maine: From Inception to Perfection

May 2025 Where in Maine? photo clue

Can You Name This Maine Mountain?

Longfellow Books, Portland, Maine

7 Independent Bookstores That Maine Authors Love

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