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The 2018 Great Maine Scavenger Hunt

Once again, we’re sending you out to search Maine high and low: 40 tasks in seven categories, maybe 2,000 road miles, at least a couple of boats. One unforgettable summer. Are you up for it?

Outdoors

Up mountains and down canyons, in the water and on the water, explore our state every which way.

Food & Drink

From a wee-hours breakfast to a shared bean supper to a lobster roll at sea.

Arts & Artisans

Get cultured at a frescoed rural meetinghouse, a coastal arts mecca, and an urban art walk.

History

Past is present at 2,000-year-old shell middens, the last Shaker village, and . . . your local Renys?

Events

Limber up for a codfish relay and boogie down at a Bangor street fest.

Family

Sheep and goats, candy, fishing, huggable mascot moose. What’s not for kids (and grown-ups) to love?

Landmarks

Find a secret Down East seastack, a guerilla-art birdhouse, and the state’s finest boulder roadside mural.

Departments

North by East

A ride-along with Maine’s own ghost busters, the case for our grand old state flag, and wild wooden horses by sculptor Richard Allen. Plus, rogue chickens and a letter to Oprah in Maine Dispatches.

Food & Drink

We nosh on Amish charcuterie, fight the crowd at Caribou’s Northern Maine Brewing Company, panfry flounder fillets, and crunch the numbers on mail-order lobster rolls.

Good Things from Maine

Form meets function with elegant handmade teapots, magic is made real with the fairy lady of Maine, and a word from artist Peter Beerits, purveyor of fine jams and jellies.

Maine Homes

Step inside an airy passive-solar abode in Georgetown, meet SoPo’s hardest-working fixer-upper, and marvel at Maine’s new crop of fancy-pants campgrounds.

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Where in Maine

Maine Moment

Dooryard

Editor’s note, reader feedback, responses to March’s Where in Maine, and more.

Columns

My Maine: Happy Hunting. Room With a View. Conservation: Eagle Freaks.

My Favorite Place

Network TV star Noah Gray-Cabey on Umbagog Lake.

On the cover: Gulf Hagas, by Jerry Monkman.

Additional photos: Family fun at Freeport’s Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment Courtesy of Wolfe’s neck Center; With delicate handles, lids, and spouts, teapots challenge even expert potters by Adam Detour; Maine Moment: “Robins, Lubec” by Marty Saccone