Down East Magazine, July 2016

Features

Best of Maine!

For months, we’ve been eating, shopping, road-tripping, and arguing for our picks. Presenting Maine’s best everything, plus the results of our reader poll. How’d your favorites do?

Endless Summer

Welcome to Kezar Lake, where the water ever beckons, the pace is undemanding, and one day folds softly into the next. By Virginia M. Wright

Slice of Life

Nothing says Maine summer like a slice of berry pie on a sunny day. We dish on 12 terrific pie shops, Rockland’s pie-baking (and side-splitting) grandmas, and more. By Annemarie Ahearn

The Destroyer

Revisiting the harrowing night, 150 years ago this month, when the Great Fire of Portland wiped half of the Forest City off the map. By Andrew Vietze

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Departments

Where in Maine?

Can you name this bridge and the town where it’s found?

Connect

The Mail

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North by East

Opinions, Advisories, and Musings from the Length and Breadth of Maine

Down East Dispatches

News You May Have Missed

Bunker, Sweet Bunker

Limestone’s Underground Scene

What’s in a Picture

Tractor Seat Polychrome

Q&A

Ryan Holt, Naked Mainer

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Dooryard

Living the Maine Life

Home

A Pemaquid Seaside Retreat

Garden

Castine’s Veggie Kingdom

Making It in Maine

Dri-Ki Woodworking

Recipe

Pea Soup with Soft Herbs

My Maine

Earnest Goes to Camp

Room With a View

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Guide

What to Do in Maine This Month

Dining

Point Grille

Art

Susan Amons

Event

Salad Days

Book

Nevada Barr’s Boar Island

Music

Tricky Britches

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_{On the cover: Cover Photograph: Fireworks over Camden, by Benjamin Williamson}