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Last year’s second running of the Great Maine Scavenger Hunt enticed hundreds of readers and fans to explore the Pine Tree State’s weirder, woolier corners. Dozens returned home victorious — faces suntanned, quads aching from mountain hikes, hands stinking of codfish. Here are a few of their stories.
The wayfaring founder of an agrarian lit mag is calling Down East Maine home — and reimagining the area’s rural economy.
Wild ducks — wild animals of all sorts — fire the human imagination.
As Maine’s farm-to-table dining scene continues going gangbusters, can the state’s farms keep up with the tables?
John Olson, a World War II veteran and Maine-art-lore inheritor, spent more than nine decades on the water.
Maine State Ballet and Portland Ballet put on two of their most popular — and very different — shows.