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Travel & Outdoors

Campobello Island Is Neither Here nor There

Residents of the Canadian isle depend on neighboring Lubec (and the goodwill of border agents) for everyday needs.
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Land, Water & Wildlife

The Forest for the Trees

In a northern mixed-wood forest, each tree species finds its most favorable micro-topography to thrive.
Song, a by Alex Katz, a 1977 oil-on-canvas was inspired by a Laura Dean Dance Company performance
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A New Exhibit Puts Alex Katz’s Love of Dance on Display

The Colby Museum of Art puts a previously unexamined aspect of the 95-year-old painter's artistic legacy on display.
King Fisher and the Queen in Damariscottamap of downtown Damariscotta
Travel & Outdoors

A Browser’s Guide to Downtown Damariscotta

The town’s known for its tasty bivalves, but it is also full of retail pearls.
Our Towns

An Oral History of the Cross-Border COVID Wedding That Went Viral

The tale of the plucky couple who didn't let the pandemic, the law, or the St. Croix River stand in the way of their nuptials.
boxing cranberries at Birch Bog Farm
Food & Drink

Newbie Farmers Preserve a Pick-Your-Own Organic-Cranberry Operation in Western Maine

Cranberries sold fresh need to be dry-harvested, which is how it’s done at Birch Bog Farm.
Where in Maine, November 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 November’s photo.
Boundary Peak
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Boundary Peak, the Maine–Quebec High Point, Is a Stunner of a Hike

Want to walk the line? Plan a trek to the border’s highest point this side of Montana.
Our Towns

The Republic of Madawaska Isn’t Real, But Its President Doesn’t Mind

For which republic does this flag stand? We asked Eric Marquis about the symbolic nation straddling the St. John River.
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Maine-Made

4 Maine Makers Putting a Fresh Spin on Stained-Glass

The millennia-old art form is about more than just lamps and church windows.
Painter Russell Cheney, left, and Harvard scholar F. O. Matthiessen, in Normandy, France, in 1925.
Arts & Leisure

Cheney, Matthiessen, and Me

For one writer, the preserved library of two eminent Mainers offers a window into their love story — and some welcome validation.
How Maine's International Border Got Its Shape
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How Maine’s International Border Got Its Shape

Every boundary, Maine state historian Earle Shettleworth Jr. says, reflects some “combination of geography and history.”
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