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Arts & Leisure

The Mystery of Maine Mystery Writers

We live in one of the least homicidal, most neighborly places in the country. Why has crime fiction become our de facto state literary genre?
Ellie Buckland, Mali Obomsawin, and Isa Burke from Lula WIles
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No Second Fiddle

Folk trio Lula Wiles brings its breezy vocal harmonizing and sharp picking, bowing, and plucking back to Maine for this summer’s Kingfield Pops.
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The Queen of the Kennebec Winds Down Her Reign

Rafting pioneer Suzie Hockmeyer’s wild, 41-year ride.
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Down East Dispatches

Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
Trapani at Owls Head Light.
Arts & Leisure

Mr. Lighthouse

Bob Trapani Jr. carries the torch for Maine’s beloved-but-antiquated seaside beacons in the GPS era.
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Arts & Leisure

What’s in a Picture?

In their heyday, dozens of steamboats plied Maine’s largest lake. Soon, though, the Great Depression and the age of the automobile took their tolls, and as steamboats grew obsolete, they were scuttled or simply allowed to sink at mooring.
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Peace, Love, and Tofu

Tofu is a passion product for the couple behind Maine’s only commercial soy beanery.
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Where in Maine?

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