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Where in Maine November 2017
Travel & Outdoors

Our Favorite Letter

Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from the November photo of Deering Oaks park in Portland.
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Features

Where to Eat Now

We’re not asking you to dine out at every amazing restaurant in Maine. Just these 20. Plus one entire town. Hope you’re hungry.
Work with Purpose
Maine-Made

Work with Purpose

A Saco woodshop builds iconic Maine furniture — and better lives for employees with disabilities.
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Built to Last

A couple preserves a family tradition with a new house that bests the original while retaining its warmth and charm.
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Bottling Maine

Building a company’s brand around its Maine identity isn’t as straightforward as it might seem.
Soakology
Travel & Outdoors

Soakology

Billed as a “foot sanctuary and tea house,” Soakology offers packages that pair therapeutic treatments with just the right leaves.
Wreck Chaser
Travel & Outdoors

The Wreck Chaser

Hundreds of military planes crashed in Maine during World War II, including 48 that resulted in fatalities. Wreckage is still scattered in the North Woods, on mountain slopes and lake bottoms, and off the coast. Aviation archaeologist Peter Noddin is on a mission to document the site of each crash — and to honor those who died.
LJ Hopkins
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No Man an Island

For 21 years, LJ Hopkins had hauled mail and essential supplies to Swan's Island. What caused him to stop?
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Her Art Is Everywhere

An unconventional sculptor (and a marine biology student) on bridging the art-and-science divide.
Maine Ideas
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8 Crazy Maine Ideas

We asked our contributors to throw skepticism out the window and float a few moonshot proposals that’d impact Maine for the better.
Kernels Of Truth
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Kernels of Truth

From the essay “Aroostook Yesterdays,” by Anne Hannan, in our November 1956 issue.
My Maine
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Deer Spotting

A longtime sportsman faces down illness — and heads out into the field one last time.
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