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Chowder is Maine’s food for all seasons

Chowder season begins and ends simultaneously in Maine. Maybe on a few over-warm days in July and early August it doesn’t taste as good as it does on chilly September nights. Most traditional Maine eateries keep it on the menu all the time. For people truly from Maine, it’s a… SEE MORE

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An antidote to anxiety?

Getting ready for work this morning, I heard an interview that stopped me in my tracks. Author Jonathan Haidt was speaking about his new book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewriting of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. In it, he outlines the connection between the increase… SEE MORE

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Finding the essence of the Lost Kitchen

French emphasizes that evoking emotions is at the very heart of her cooking. She wants diners to feel welcomed and cared for. SEE MORE

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A Maine manufacturing miracle

Slade wanted an example of what apparel manufacturing might look like in the U.S. when there are considerations other than profit. SEE MORE

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What’s lurking in the deep Gulf of Maine?

It’s a foggy and rainy May. A little chilly. Today is a good day to talk about ocean temperatures. Across most of the North Atlantic, sea surface temperatures have been absolutely shattering records recently. Yet when we look at the buoys in the Gulf of Maine, this winter and spring… SEE MORE

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Nazi redux argument left unmade

The Nazi government in Germany had clandestine communications with many American Nazi groups, providing cash and propaganda... SEE MORE

A storm in March pushes water from Penobscot Bay over Route 1 in Lincolnville Beach. PHOTO: JUDY BERK

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James Croll and sea level rise

“That’s the way it looks from here” was the jaunty sign-off of Lou McNally, Maine Public Radio’s long-time weather forecaster, and we knew a storm was coming. But king tides and climate change played another game. On Jan. 13 the Maine coast was inundated. Water flowed into hundreds of towns,… SEE MORE

Leaving Frenchboro Harbor. FILE PHOTO: TOM GROENING

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Listening led to harbor dredging funds

Last month, Sen. Susan Collins secured $500,000 in federal funding to dredge Frenchboro’s Lunt Harbor. The small island eight miles off Mount Desert Island relies on marine transportation and fishing for survival, so a safely navigable harbor is critical for the island’s everyday function. The harbor, the main point for… SEE MORE

Monhegan School. FILE PHOTO: TOM GROENING

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The wonder and work of island schools

Teaching a handful of students, each in a different grade, in a quaint one- or two-room school overlooking the harbor on a remote Maine island accessible by ferry that runs intermittently in the winter might sound like complete nuttiness to one person, an interesting puzzle to figure out to another,… SEE MORE

“The J. O. Brown Boatyard, North Haven” (2012) by Seaver Leslie; transparent watercolor, 11-inches by 14 inches.

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Seaver Leslie pays tribute to Brown Boatyard

Leslie painted at the boatyard in the spring and summer of 2009 and 2010, focusing on the interior, with a series of detailed drawings preceding the watercolors. SEE MORE