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From a farmhouse in Newcastle, Oxbow Brewing Company blends knockout beer with a homegrown sense of cool.
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Even during the high season, Pemaquid Beach moves at its own luxuriously slow pace. By Virginia M. Wright Photographed by...
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One island resident laments her seemingly endless role as hostess during Maine’s popular season.
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At Nervous Nellie’s on Deer Isle, Peter Beerits has created a world populated by cowboys, dragons, and checkers-playing fish.
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