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Best of Maine 2022

Our 15th annual roundup of Maine’s best everything: art galleries to architects, beers to boutiques, golf courses to gift shops. How did your favorites do?
Lobster Lake, Terry Gerritsen's favorite Maine place
Our Towns

Terry Gerritsen’s Favorite Maine Place

The author of the hugely popular Rizzoli & Isles series on Piscataquis County’s Lobster Lake.
A bird stone carving by Kevin Sudeith
Land, Water & Wildlife

A Petroglyph Artist Leaves His Mark on a Phippsburg Nature Preserve

International stone carver Kevin Sudeith's intricate renderings should last for thousands of years.
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4 Pieces of Elegant Maine-Made Stationery

Our favorite writing paper for crafting eloquent letters.
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September 2022

Maine through the lens of mid-century photographer Kosti Ruohomaa, the winners of our 2022 Best of Maine Readers' Choice Poll, and more.
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From the Archives: Remembering Kosti Ruohomaa, October 1969

Read Lew Dietz’s remarkable tribute to photographer Kosti Ruohomaa, published in the October 1969 issue of Down East.
500 hosta varieties carpet the two-acre grove between the Schmidts’ house and the pond
Home + Garden

Hordes of Hostas Call This Holden Place Home

How a simple woodland path became a playfully eccentric garden with lots and lots of hostas.
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See the Evolution of Maine’s Identity at Bowdoin’s Bicentennial Art Exhibition

At First Light: Two Centuries of Artists in Maine paints a complex picture of Maine’s history.
Maine-Made

Beautiful Turned-Wood Bowls for a Cause, Courtesy of the Maine State Prison

An outside-the-box fundraiser teams up local artists, a local gallery, and the local penitentiary.
Clarry Hill, Where in Maine, September 2022
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Can You Name This Hill and the Town Where It’s Found?

The little knoll, just 643 feet tall, is named for a family that settled on it before the Civil War.
La Mega, parked on Portland's Eastern Prom
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On Portland’s Eastern Prom, the More Food Trucks the Merrier

After neighbors complained, the city’s food-truck hub went downhill — and that’s not a bad thing.
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Maine News You May Have Missed

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