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Clarry Hill, Where in Maine, September 2022
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 September's photo.
lemon tart from Salt & Pepper and Sugar Too
Food & Drink

Salt & Pepper and Sugar Too Fulfills a Culinary Couple’s Longtime Dream

In Wilton, Don and Mary Beane serve up comforting and creative dishes they’ve been perfecting for decades.
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Food & Drink

Can Tropical Ginger Find a Home in Un-Tropical Maine?

In Farmington, Rustic Roots Farm prepares to harvest its Maine-grown ginger.
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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 July’s photo.
Self-portrait of Kosti Ruohomaa in a diving mask
Photography

No One Photographed Maine Like Kosti Ruohomaa

The mid-century magazine photographer loved to turn his lens on his home state's out-of-the-way places and salt-of-the-earth people.
In seven-year-old Richard’s room, he and his six-year-old sister, Evangeline, hang from a pine bunk bed their dad made.
Home + Garden

They’re Cool With Their Kid-Friendly Sebago Home

A family brings youthful energy (and weddings!) to a storied 19th-century farmhouse.
Designer Jared DeSimio sewing in his Brunswick studio
Maine-Made

Brunswick Designer Jared DeSimio Piles Clothes on His Roof For Weeks — Then Sells Them

His weathered, sun-bleached “Shed Collection” is just one of his upcycled creations.
Jack McCann (left), a research technician in UMaine’s forest-ecology program, takes measurements with Marin Harnett, a summer research technician from North Carolina in the Holt Research Forest
Land, Water & Wildlife

For 40 Years, This Maine Forest Has Been One Elaborate Experiment

Now, Arrowsic’s unique Holt Research Forest is shifting focus.
Land, Water & Wildlife

A Paddler’s Paradise — and a Showpiece for River Restoration

With miles of undeveloped shoreline and quintessential down east quietude, Whiting’s little-visited Orange River is a critical link between ocean and inland ecosystems.
An eagle eating a striped bass
Land, Water & Wildlife

Summer of the Striper

Last year there was an abundance of pogies, earlier years were laden with silver-sided herring, but this year was all about striped bass.
Adam Smaha's Maine Crab Dip, from Catch: A Maine Seafood Cookbook
Food & Drink

This Cookbook Is Good for Home Cooks — and Maine Fishermen

Catch: A Maine Seafood Cookbook features seafood recipes from coastal-community members to fancy-restaurant chefs.
Postcards of the Old Gaol, the Emerson-Wilcox House, and Jefferds Tavern at the Old York Historical Society
History

There’s Plenty That’s New in Old York

Although one Old York Historical Society property currently has a gaping hole in it, there’s never been a better time to visit.
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