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September 2024 Where in Maine? clue WoodenBoat School
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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.
golfers playing in the mudflats of the Tide’s Out Golf Course of Kennebec Point in Georgetown, Maine
History

Remembering Maine’s Extraordinary Tide’s Out Golf Course

Some 60 years ago, locals and visiting dignitaries teed up on a Georgetown mudflat.
Needhams, also known as Maine potato candy, on a picnic blanket
Food & Drink

Celebrate Sweet Spuds at the Maine Needham Festival

Coinciding with Maine Needham Day on the last Saturday in September, the event celebrates Maine's favorite potato candy.
Nate Garrett in an apron with a fish print piece of art
Maine-Made

South Portland Maker Nate Garrett’s Fish Prints Are Reeling In Fans

He's a practitioner of the Japanese art of gyotaku, in which a fish acts as the printing plate.
bikers enjoying graveled roads thanks to Appalachian Mountain Club's Maine Woods Initiative
Travel & Outdoors

Gravel Biking Comes to Maine’s 100 Mile Wilderness

Newly friendly to cyclists, the Appalachian Mountain Club’s 330 miles of old logging roads are unpaved, with good intentions.
Eckart Preu directing the Portland Symphony Orchestra
Arts & Leisure

100 Years of the Portland Symphony Orchestra

In a century of concert seasons, this year's lineup is one of many high notes.
2024 Best of Maine
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The Winners of Down East’s 2024 Best of Maine Poll

Our 17th annual roundup of Maine’s best everything, from taprooms to bookshops, lobster rolls to toy stores. How did your favorites do?
Senator Margaret Chase Smith questions Korean War general James Van Fleet in 1953.
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A Lady in a Gentleman’s Club

By Richard HalletFrom our May 1960 issue A woman in so exclusive a gentlemen’s club as the United States Senate is...
Jess Stuart and Josey Bornstein, owners of Cool Girl Collective in Bangor, Maine
Maine-Made

A New Bangor Vintage Shop Stitches Together a Collaborative Approach to Thrifting

Cool Girl Collective sets itself apart by giving consignors more control over inventory and a bigger share of the profits.
corrugated-steel beds from Ergonomic Gardens
Home + Garden

In Yarmouth, Mounded Vegetable Beds Save a Couple’s Backs

Having built the garden of their dreams, they now sell their steel frames and offer gardening advice online.
huevos Ocotillo with over-easy egg; Pork-pastrami Benedict with lemon-fresno hollandaise; brisket hash with poached eggs.
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Ocotillo Is the Place in Portland for a Relaxed Tex-Mex Brunch

The restaurant’s menu echoes the weekday breakfasts and Sunday brunches that its proprietors formerly ran at the first location of Terlingua.
Sebago Lake, Maine
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Amy Allen’s Favorite Maine Place

The Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter recalls the thrill of clinging to an inner tube behind her parents' speedboat on Sebago Lake.
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Doughnuts in Maine: From Inception to Perfection


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