Or visit the Historical Society’s downtown headquarters.
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Maine’s required eating list
Roll over lobster, these are the culinary classics that real Mainers love (or love to hate).
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View Finder: Take a hike, gawk at hawks or go glamping at Bradbury Mountain
The Pownal state park was one of the first five in Maine.
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Made in Maine: Hold a jam session at Stonewall Kitchen
The York headquarters has a huge store, cooking classes and a viewing gallery into its production facility.
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Keep an eye out for these birds in southern Maine
Nicholas Lund of Maine Audubon offers fall birding tips.
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Tour the Maine towns where these books were based
Here are the places that provided the setting or the inspiration for some well-known stories.
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Out Late: Create your own cocktail at Vessel and Vine
Even before you walk through the door of Vessel and Vine, located in an old house, you can feel the love and attention that owner and bartender Nikaline Iacono has poured into every detail. Plants decorate the outside, which leads into a retail area selling wine, beer and vintage glassware. There’s not much that can […]
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Price Points: Lobster dishes
Scan any menu for the highest prices, and odds are good that any lobster dish will ring in at or near the very top—a lobster entree in even a mid-priced restaurant will average between $30 and $40. Or, the menu often will simply offer the mysterious, “Market Price.” But as elusive as that may seem, […]
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History Buff: Fort Popham state historic site
A treasure awaits on Hunnewell Point at the bottom of the Phippsburg peninsula. But Mainers and tourists often discover it by chance, not because they’re hunting for gems like Fort Popham State Historic Site. Perched 16 miles below Bath at the end of twisty Route 209, the free historic site is a mile and a […]
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Rainy Day: Candlepin bowling
When you live in New England and you hear the word ‘bowling,’ there’s usually been no debate about what that means. Around here, bowling is traditionally assumed to mean candlepin, whereas elsewhere the default is ten-pin. (We generally specify ten-pin as “big ball bowling.”) And there are historic reasons for that bias; candlepin began in […]
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