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Where in 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 June’s photo.
Our Towns

Can Northeast Harbor Stay Livable Year-Round?

The vitality of one Mount Desert Island villag rests on the ties that bind locals and summer folk.
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Maine-Made

Binders Keepers Makes Eye-Popping Art from Old Books

Running the page numbers with Stockton Springs book-folding artist Chelsea Porter.
Arts & Leisure

Going Back to Calcasset? Bestselling Author Linda Holmes Didn’t Think So

In Flying Solo, Holmes returns to her make-believe midcoast hamlet — and to themes of independence, acceptance, and belonging.
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Food & Drink

Make Amanda Beal’s Grandma’s Yummy Rhubarb Squares

The Maine cabinet member’s family recipe is one of more than 200 in the new volume of the Maine Community Cookbook.
Ralston captured the Native Son hauling traps off North Haven in 2007, a grand summer home looming behind.
Our Towns

Summah People, Some Ahn’t

Thanks to a shared love of place, summer folk and locals can communicate across what are sometimes vastly different experiences.
Norway Pines, author Susan Conley's family camp in Phippsburg, featured in Wildsam Field Guides: Maine Coast
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How We Came to Norway Pines

Remembering the offbeat encounter that turned an old summer camp into a cherished family escape.
the library at Washburn-Norlands Living History Center
Our Towns

Julia Bouwsma’s Favorite Maine Place

Maine’s poet laureate on the library at Livermore’s Washburn-Norlands Living History Center.
Where in Maine, April 2022
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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.
State representative Jeffrey Evangelos is the legislature’s criminal-justice reformer in chief.
Issues & Politics

The State of Maine v. Parole

Maine was the first state to eliminate the possibility of parole. Now, a hard-nosed state legislator and a once-incarcerated PhD student are making the case that parole deserves a second chance.
A sure sign of a hemlock woolly adelgid infestation is a cottony (or “woolly”) white substance at the base of hemlock needles.
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Maine’s Mysterious Foot-Staining Beaches Were Not What We Thought

Officials blamed kelp flies, but the true culprit is even stranger.
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