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October 2016

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Awakening
Arts & Leisure

Awakening

Sometimes there’s more to a hard day’s work than a hard day’s work. A life lesson learned from taking off with dad.
Ghost Town4
Our Towns

Stephen King Grew Up In This Small Maine Town. You Can Kind of Tell.

Like the famous author it raised, Durham is quiet and a little weird, with some strange stuff going on upstairs.
Bangor Zombie Walk 2015
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Want to Play Zombie for a Day?

Shuffle this way, to Bangor’s annual celebration of the living dead.
The Sand Castle5
Home + Garden

The Sand Castle

A Bar Harbor home is built from the ground up — literally.
Golden Hour
Room With a View

Room With a View

I love, honor, and respect almost everything about Maine except its license plate. There is something abject about Vacationland, as though the state had no substance.
Bogged Down
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Bogged Down

From “Crazy Over Cranberries” by Ken Textor in our October 1996 issue.
Our Favorite Letter
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Our Favorite Letter

Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from the September photo of the Oquossoc Angling Association on the Mooselookmeguntic lake.
Apples to Donuts
Food & Drink

Apples to Donuts

There’s little more satisfying than the crunch of a just-picked apple — except maybe a warm, freshly baked cider donut. Bet you can’t resist.
Farm Markets8
Travel & Outdoors

Maine’s Best Fall Farm Stands

Five roadside farm markets we can’t pass by.
Some Writer!
Arts & Leisure

A Kaleidoscope of White

Melissa Sweet’s new E.B. White biography is a (literally) colorful portrait of Maine’s most beloved writer.
Safe at Last
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Safe at Last

After decades of violence at the hands of her husband, Priscilla got out alive — with help from a Maine safe house that’s among the first of its kind.
Dining
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Center Lovell Inn

It’s not surprising that Center Lovell Inn, a beautifully restored 1805 Georgian-style farmhouse in rural western Maine, induces a Zen-like serenity in those who visit.
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