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Camden Harbor, from the Mount Battie summit.
Travel & Outdoors

Why the Camden Hills Should Be Your Fall Foliage Getaway

Autumn brings a pastoral luster to the coastal mountains of the midcoast.
Land, Water & Wildlife

A Climate of Sun and Fun?

The Maine coast has always been at the center of a vortex of fog during the summer, but not this year.
Erin French's clam chowder is Governor Janet Mills's favorite
Food & Drink

Governor Janet Mills’s Favorite Clam Chowder Recipe

Erin French's sweet clam chowder is “a quintessentially Maine recipe," Mills says.
grain growing in a field
Food & Drink

Maine Craft Beer Is Fermenting an Agricultural Revolution

A by-the-numbers look at craft beer and Maine-grown grains.
Food & Drink

Matt Spector’s Lobster Chowder Recipe

The Harbor Cafe chef adds mirepoix and dashi for a full-flavored chowder.
Broom making is a surprisingly physical art, says Eric McIntyre, owner of Village Handcraft. His workshop participants need some dexterity (not just for the cleanup).
Maine-Made

The Brooms at Wiscasset’s Village Handcraft Will Sweep You Off Your Feet

Shopkeeper Eric McIntyre’s handmade brooms are designed to be displayed and used.
Can You Name This Landmark Lake?
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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.
Built and launched in Maine this year, the Solar Sal, pictured, is the world’s first all-solar fiberglass passenger boat. Its builders and inventor hope it’s coming soon to a lake near you.
Maine-Made

Are Maine-Built Solar Boats the Future?

On the heels of a pioneering project, alternative energy may hold promise for Maine's marine industry.
fête rhubarb wine from Eighteen Twenty Wines
Food & Drink

Can a Veggie Wine Taste Just Like Regular Wine?

By adding a bit of natural flavoring to its rhubarb wine, Portland’s Eighteen Twenty Wines says it can approximate familiar wine styles.
Chef Christian Hayes's fish chowder with bacon
Food & Drink

Chef Christian Hayes’s Fish Chowder Recipe

The Chopped champion pairs classic techniques with flavor-bomb ingredients to create his fish chowder.
Where in Maine, August 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 August's photo.
Urban Farm Fermentory’s seaweed cider was a trailblazing macroalgal beverage, predating the inaugural Seaweed Week
Food & Drink

Seaweed Week Founder Josh Rogers Wants You to Drink More Kelp

The seaweed evangelist wants to build up Maine’s seaweed economy, one sip at a time.
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Doughnuts in Maine: From Inception to Perfection

May 2025 Where in Maine? photo clue

Can You Name This Maine Mountain?


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