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Settlement Quarry, on Deer Isle
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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.
man ordering at the counter of Vazquez Mexican Takeout in Milbridge, Maine
Food & Drink

Vazquez Mexican Takeout Is Spicing Things Up in Milbridge

Born on the blueberry barrens a quarter century ago, this establishment shows there’s more than one flavor of down east heritage.
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Travel & Outdoors

Where Is “Down East” Maine Anyway?

We head downwind and east on a road trip through the new Downeast Maine National Heritage Area.
Wild Blueberry Land, now the Wild Blueberry Heritage Center, in Columbia Falls, Maine
Travel & Outdoors

Wild Blueberry Land Is History

Over the years, the roadside attraction has grown into a place to learn about blueberry-farming heritage.
Maine lobsterman Tommy Dube, 10, sitting with one of his lobster traps on his father's lobsterboat
Our Towns

Meet One of Maine’s Youngest Lobstermen

The 10-year-old likes to ride bikes, eat canned ravioli, and play ball — whenever he’s not hauling traps.
Gulf shrimp on a bed of fettuccine nero and escarole garnished with chervil sprigs
Food & Drink

Secundo, Chef Sam Ostrow’s New Restaurant, Is a Near-Perfect Italian Joint

Located in South Berwick, the downtown space lets him flex and expand on everything he loves about his primo place.
Eric Darling with his rope art and piles of old lobster-trap rope at his Appleton, Maine, studio
Maine-Made

Eric Darling Untangles How to Turn Old Lobstering Lines into Vivid Landscapes

The midcoast artist's Drift Rope Project is an homage to the working waterfront.
illustration of some of Maine's greatest olympians
History

8 Fierce Summer Olympians from Maine

In the annals of the state's Summer Games history, there’s no shortage of contenders.
the exterior of Mercedes Foss and Jacob Akers's 1904 home on Standish’s Watchic Lake
Home + Garden

An Artist’s Standish Home Is Her Canvas

For the last five years, painter Mercedes Foss has been riffing on her 1904 house’s quirky flourishes.
Scarborough Beach State Park
Our Towns

Zu Bakery Owner Barak Olins’s Favorite Maine Place

The James Beard Award–winning baker, on Scarborough Beach State Park.
Primo's restaurant garden in Rockland, Maine
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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 April’s photo.
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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.
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Doughnuts in Maine: From Inception to Perfection

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