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Everyone has a different idea of the perfect Maine summer. Here's an excerpt from our summer planner, listing four beaches you may not have visited yet.
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May’s Where in Maine

Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from May.
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Lost at Sea

Maine has spent decades trying to do right by the endangered Atlantic salmon. So how come our salmon runs are still paltry? The answer: it’s complicated.
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Cottage Living All Year Long

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Through A Rose-Colored Lens

The Portland Museum of Art takes a career-spanning look at the work of Rose Marasco, one of Maine’s most accomplished — and eclectic — photographers.
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Walking in Solitude

For some, hiking's biggest reward is not at the summit.
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The Phantom Punch Was a Hit

Fifty years ago, the “phantom punch” gave Lewiston a black eye. How boxing’s most infamous fight inspired a Portland trainer’s hall-of-fame career.
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4 Booming Fourth of July Fireworks Displays

What’s Independence Day without a little sparkle? These towns are booming with patriotic spirit.
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Making It In Maine – Changing Spaces

Transformit’s colorful fabric structures create dazzling settings for institutions and special events worldwide.
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Notes on Springtime

Spring in Maine, as E.B. White observed, is a haphazard season, best described in anecdotes.
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March’s Where in Maine?

This man's touching memories of Maine were stirred up some four decades later, when he spotted this image in our March issue.
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