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Food & Drink

Fresh and Sweet

Blackberry buckle is a fine farewell to berry season.
Zucchini
Food & Drink

Gather Ye Zucchinis

Gather, Yarmouth’s farm-to-table café, where you can trade your surplus bounty for a few bucks on a gift card.
Common Ground Country Fair’s annual posters - pig and praying mantis
Travel & Outdoors

Prints of the Barnyard

Love the Common Ground Country Fair’s annual poster designs? Thank the rural jurors who select them.
fox alseep on tree stump
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Room With a View

Before myth became history, did foxes consider the trade-offs involved and cast their fate with ours, then think better of it?
Bar Tender- Mason’s Brewing Company
Restaurant Reviews

The Dream of the ’90s is Alive at Mason’s?

On the left bank of the Penobscot, Mason's Brewing Company is bringing back the brewpub in high style.
Dog Days
Travel & Outdoors

Dog Days of Summer Travel

Let us lead you to some of Maine’s most canine-friendly inns, destinations, and activities.
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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 September.
Pushing Open All the Window by Abbie Read
Arts & Leisure

Collector’s Items

Abbie Read has a passion for found objects — and books and paper and paintings. This month, she’s bringing together her eclectic interests in ayears-in-the-making installation in Brunswick.
A carnival worker mans the Ferris wheel on the opening night of the Fryeburg Fair.
Issues & Politics

A Trump-Loving Impresaria, Her Immigrant Workers, and the Future of a Maine Institution

After her husband died in 2013, Jeanette Gilmore took over Smokey’s Greater Shows, an institution on the Maine festival circuit. But in 50+ years of fairgrounds, Ferris wheels, and a fluctuating workforce, life on the midway hasn’t gotten any easier. Welcome to the carnival.
Maine Juice Co
Food & Drink

Swig of the Month

Maine Juice Co. owners Tim and Michelle Nickerson cold-press their juices and they don’t pasteurize, both to protect fresh-fruit flavor and to preserve nutrients.
Home + Garden

Hearth & Soul

Amy and Alden Philbrick strip, polish, and perfect one of Cape Elizabeth’s oldest homes.
Frank J. Wood Bridge
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Old Bridge, New Cliques

When is a local landmark worth saving? In Brunswick and Topsham, the fate of the adored but dilapidated Green Bridge has residents at loggerheads.
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