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Autumn Gold

It's time to stop taking Maine's beautiful birches for granted.

By Rebecca Sawyer-Fay

Bowdoin's Big Makeover

Students aren't the only ones who will enjoy the college's stunning new recital hall and art museum.

By Hilary Nangle, photography by Michele Stapleton

Soups with a Maine Flavor

Eating Close to Home

More Maine cooks are discovering that building a menu from local food is reconnecting them to a fresher, tastier way of life.

By Joshua F. Moore

A Maine Play List

Ten local musicians you should be listening to right now. By Sam Pfeifle

By Sam Pfeifle

Apocalypse Then

When the prophet William Miller announced he knew the exact date of Doomsday, thousands of Mainers prepared for the end.

By Edgar Allen Beem

Open Season

An epidenic of poaching is sweeping across Maine, and wardens are using every weapon in their arsenal to stop it.

By Cynthia Anderson

Autumn, the Way It Should Be

Looking for a perfect fall day trip just twenty minutes from Portland? Then take a drive to New Gloucester, where hayrides and apple-picking remain the order of the day.

By Jeff Clark photography by Sara Gray

On the Road to Pineland

New Gloucester's crown jewel is the former Pineland Center, a once notorious institution that has become one of Maine's great success stories. It's time to pay it a visit.

By Jeff Clark photography by Sara Gray

In search of Franco-America (and its food)

Cajun cooking is world famous. So why isn't the food of their northeastern cousins?

By Michael S. Sanders, photography by Russell French

Editor's Note

By Paul Doiron

Inside Maine

Your monthly guide to enjoying life in the pine tree state.

Letters to the Editor

My Two Maines

For a boy from Rumford Point, the coast was a strange and magical place.

By Dan Abbott

North by East

Table of Contents

Editorial Opinions from Across the State.

Stealth Industry

Amid economic uncertainty, one Maine manufacturing sector is going great guns.

By Jeff Clark

Smoking Schooner

The danger of shipping lime was brought into focus in Rockport at the turn of the century.

By Joshua F. Moore

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