Your Best Summer!

Submitted by Will Bleakley on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 8:47am.

Your Best Summer! May 4, 2012 June is just around the corner and it's time to get a head start on your best summer ever! Down East can be your guide for making the most of the summer months ahead. Enjoy! And don’t forget to join us on Facebook!

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Our New Books
	Ultimate Acadia \| Ultimate Acadia is the essential book about Maine’s Mount Desert Island, providing everything you need to know to make the most of your time there.
	The Maine Lobster Book \| This fun, fact-filled book brings the reader on the lobster’s journey from ocean floor to plate, stopping along the way to get to know the people and places of Maine’s iconic industry.
	Eric Hopkins \| From his earliest work with glass to the stunning aerial panoramas of Maine islands that have gained him far-reaching fame, Eric Hopkins has consistently explored boundaries—of medium, of space, of vision.
	Maine ABC \| Illustrated with distinct Maine icons, such as moose, lobster, and Katahdin, this book has a rhyming verse that will have children singing the words, asking for it to be read again and again, and learning the alphabet in no time.