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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 October’s photo.
Vinalhaven’s wind farm rises through the clouds. Ralston calls this image Prophets, a nod to “the vision it took on the part of the community to make this extraordinary project happen.”
Issues & Politics

Tilting at Windmills

Where and how we are going to get most of our power in a fossil-free future?
Maine-Made

Maine Urban Timber Company Is Making Forest Products Without the Forest

The Gardiner company is turning what would-be waste wood into things of beauty.
A view of Lake Onawa and Borestone Mountain, from Barren Mountain, southeast of Moosehead Lake.
Our Towns

What’s Next for America’s Crown Jewel?

Reassessing its future, the Moosehead region balances growth and livability with mossiness and moosiness.
Home + Garden

A Children’s Author’s Stopgap Study

Writer Samara Cole Doyon shares art and inspiration from her pandemic workspace.
Elizabeth Downs Maine’s 9-year-old beekeeper
Arts & Leisure

Meet Maine’s 9-Year-Old Beekeeper

In Eddington, fourth-grader Elizabeth Downs tends to some 180,000 resident bees in her backyard.
Danny McGovern
Food & Drink

Danny McGovern on 30 Years in Maine Craft Beer

The Lake St. George Brewing Company founder on the state’s explosive suds sector.
5 Maine-Made THC- and CBD-Infused Beverages
Food & Drink

5 Maine-Made THC- and CBD-Infused Beverages

One year after Maine’s first recreational-weed shop opened, liquid formats for CBD and THC are in increasingly high supply.
map of shops in downtown Ellsworth
Travel & Outdoors

A Browser’s Guide Downtown Ellsworth

Despite the pandemic, the gateway town’s entrepreneurs have been busy opening (and reopening) shops downtown.
These Maine-made kids’ costumes from Tree and Vine are perfect for Halloween
Maine-Made

These Maine-Made Kids’ Costumes Are Perfect for Halloween

Gray-based Tree and Vine proves there’s no wrong season for playing dress-up.
Photo by John Lane, Evening Tide Photography
Photography

Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer

Here is our favorite letter from August's photo.
Big Reed Preserve
Land, Water & Wildlife

The Secrets of New England’s Last Great Old-Growth Forest

The woodland preserve around Big Reed Pond has become a quiet monument to what we've lost and a potent reminder of what we might recover.
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Doughnuts in Maine: From Inception to Perfection

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Can You Name This Maine Mountain?


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