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Naples Causeway
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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 September's photo.
7 Maine-Made Toiletries for Your Bathroom
Maine-Made

7 Maine-Made Toiletries for Your Bathroom

A few of our favorite all-natural artisanal soaps, creams, and more.
Maine’s first certified organic farm, Ken-Ro Farm, in Plymouth.
Land, Water & Wildlife

50 Years of MOFGA, Maine’s Champion of Horticulture

The much-admired organization has been keeping it organic since 1971.
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Best of Maine 2021

Once again, we asked Down East readers to cast their votes for Maine’s best everything: burgers to bookstores, museums to marinas, art galleries to architects. plus, we’ve sprinkled in picks of our own. How’d your favorites do?
Katie Spotz running
Arts & Leisure

Ultra-Athlete Katie Spotz Bikes 360 Miles Across Maine

The Coast Guard officer hasn’t taken any shortcuts on her fundraising treks around Maine (and the rest of the world).
Pleasant Mountain in Bridgton, Maine; Reza Jalali's favorite Maine place
Our Towns

Reza Jalali’s Favorite Maine Place

The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center's executive director on Bridgton’s Pleasant Mountain.
The Maine Oyster Trail Is Back
Food & Drink

The Maine Oyster Trail Is Back

The trip-planning platform for bivalve lovers feels fresher after a relaunch.
Abby Barrows, the Maine microplastics researcher reenvisioning aquaculture
Land, Water & Wildlife

The Maine Microplastics Researcher Reenvisioning Aquaculture

Stonington’s Abby Barrows dialed back a globetrotting research career to take over an oyster farm in her hometown. Now, she’s out to refashion the equipment of her new profession, to keep Maine’s booming aquaculture sector from fouling the waters it relies upon.
Where In Maine, July 2021
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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer

Here's our favorite letter from July's Where in Maine photo.
At The Garrison in Yarmouth: Maine monkfish; mango granita; skirt steak; summer-squash salad.
Food & Drink

After a Year And a Half, The Garrison Reopens

The Yarmouth restaurant is picking up where it left off before its long pandemic layoff.
Ralston took this photo, titled Thorofare, in 1986, flying in a friend’s plane at dawn over the Fox Islands Thorofare, in Penobscot Bay. “I’ve been on virtually every island in this photograph,” he wrote in his book Sightings: A Maine Coast Odyssey.
Land, Water & Wildlife

Never Say No to an Island

"It turned out everything I had been taught about islands was, in Maine's case, wrong."
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After Years of Daydreaming, They Bought a Fixer-Upper Sloop

The boat was seaworthy. But were they?
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