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October 2024 Where in Maine? photo clue - Belfast Water District
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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.
Justin and Samantha Juray, the owners of Just-In-Time Recreation, embracing.
Our Towns

“You Can’t Explain It to Anybody”

After a mass shooting took the lives of 18 people last October, families, friends, and survivors were left to process their grief and trauma in myriad ways. For one couple, that meant endeavoring to reopen the bowling alley where the shooting began.
the Dave Astor Show, 1965
Arts & Leisure

Take a Spin Through the State’s Musical History at the Maine Historical Society

Its current exhibition, Music in Maine, hits all the high notes.
Erik Francis, one of the three Passamaquoddy tribal members licensed to transport elvers around dams last spring.
Land, Water & Wildlife

The Upstream Battle to Preserve Maine’s Lucrative Elver Fishery

Some observers suspect that the number of baby eels migrating up Maine rivers is declining. Passamaquoddy fishermen have taken conservation into their own hands.
Home + Garden

There’s Plenty of Wisdom to Unearth In a Brooksville Vegetable Grower’s New Book

Barbara Damrosch hopes her guide to growing organic food, A Life in the Garden, plants a seed.
Drunken noodles with shrimp and crispy pork belly; guajillo-braised-brisket tacos; Cajun grilled shrimp with garlic-cheddar grits; Caribbean seared red snapper with sweet-potato latkes from The Butcher The Baker in Bangor, Maine
Food & Drink

The Butcher The Baker Is a Fun and Tasty Addition to Bangor’s Dining Scene

Its name may come from a nursery rhyme, but the food at this gastropub is anything but elementary.
Above a Design Within Reach sofa, the branches on a spindly pine in the Orcutts’ triptych of a fiery-red blueberry field echo the branches on a moose antler John and his son found while cross-country skiing in Carrabassett Valley
Home + Garden

Whimsical Décor Informs a 19th-Century Former Academic Building

The playful furnishings suit photographers John and Cynthia Orcutt’s former place: an old four-room schoolhouse in Kingfield.
welding student at the Shelter Institute in Woolwich, Maine
Home + Garden

The Shelter Institute Celebrates a Half-Century of Home Building

For 50 years, the midcoast school has given novice home builders the tools they need to get started.
William Janelle carving a face on a gourd
Maine-Made

A Bridgton Artist’s Expressive Gourd Carvings Speak Volumes

William Janelle uses pumpkins and other winter squashes as a medium for experimenting with the faces that enliven his wooden sculptures.
Devils Den, in Roxbury, Maine, covered in green moss
Photography

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.
Mahaney Diamond, Orono
Our Towns

Abby Kraemer’s Favorite Maine Place

The UMaine All-American soccer player on her home turf, Mahaney Diamond.
October 2024 Where in Maine? photo clue - Belfast Water District
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Can You Name This Picturesque Maine Dam?

You've likely gotten a glimpse of this lovely scene while traveling at 50-plus miles an hour across a short bridge.
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