📷 A foggy morning in Rockland Harbor, submitted by Yvonne Prosser into our 9th annual #DownEastReaderPhotoContest . Submit and vote for your favorite Maine photos at photos.downeast.com.

Special thanks to Natural Resources Council of Maine for sponsoring this year's contest.

This Friday and Saturday, True North Theatre hosts its third installment of the Ghosts of Mt. Hope Cemetery walking tours at Bangor's historic Mt. Hope Cemetery. Purchase tickets online at 207tix.com/organizations/…. 🎟️

Attendees of our January 14 Winter Waterbirds Workshop will visit prime Southern Maine birding locations with birding expert Derek Lovitch in search of purple sandpipers, harlequin ducks, dovekies, thick-billed murres, and more. Sign up now. 👇 shop.downeast.com/collections/bi…

With a new shop and some high-profile partnerships, the great-great-grandnephew of Governor Percival Baxter goes all in on his passion for vintage-style outerwear. Read more. 👇 downeast.com/maine-made/vin…

📷📍 Smalls Falls, submitted by Aaron Kircheis into our 9th annual #DownEastReaderPhotoContest . Submit and vote for your favorite Maine photos at photos.downeast.com.

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Every fall, Sean Turley crisscrosses Maine's back roads, marking up a Gazetteer with where he found apple trees, where he didn’t, and where he suspects he might. Read more. 👇downeast.com/food-drink/sea…

In addition to being fantastic places to hike, these protected forests are helping slow the effects of climate change. Plus, download MCHT's take-along nature guide to learn more about Maine's flora and fauna.👇 #PaidContent
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In the fall, the Blue Hill peninsula’s quiet, two-lane roads become corridors of color, inviting long, lazy drives with no particular destination. Here are three foliage road-trip recommendations through the region. 👇
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📷 A bald eagle, submitted by Kenny Ames into our 9th annual #DownEastReaderPhotoContest . Submit and vote for your favorite Maine photos at photos.downeast.com.

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Victoria Nam-Sonenstein’s cakes always seem to conjure a time and place while also looking out-of-this-world gorgeous. downeast.com/food-drink/sib…

Jon Wallace is one of about 100 people worldwide on the hunt for micrometeorites, meteors the width of a few human hairs. He's found over 200 so far. downeast.com/arts-leisure/t…

Tiny Kokadjo, east of Moosehead Lake, is known for its population sign, declaring itself home to “not many.”

📷 Photographed by Benjamin Williamson, from our 2024 Maine Wall Calendar. Check out all of our 2024 calendars. 🗓️➡️ shop.downeast.com/collections/do…

When children's-book author peter brown! wants to escape to the natural world, he makes for the La Verna Preserve at the edge of Muscongus Bay. Read more about his favorite Maine place. ➡️ downeast.com/our-towns/pete…
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Photographer Mandy Lamb got a charge out of turning this former hydroelectric hub in Norridgewock into her home. See inside. ➡️ downeast.com/home-and-garde… downeast.com/home-and-garde…

📷 Fall colors on Acadia National Park's Jesup Path, submitted by Alison White into our 9th annual #DownEastReaderPhotoContest . Submit and vote for your favorite Maine photos at photos.downeast.com.

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Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to #WhereInMaine ? Here is our favorite answer from August’s photo of Old Fort Western. downeast.com/photography/ou…

Shop our unique selection of Maine-made and Maine-inspired kitchen goods — a great way to support local Maine makers. ➡️ shop.downeast.com/collections/ki…

📷 A pair of sparring bull moose, submitted by Gary Monteux into our 9th annual #DownEastReaderPhotoContest . Submit and vote for your favorite Maine photos at photos.downeast.com.

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Hone your nonfiction writing skills with award-winning creative nonfiction and children’s book author Mira Ptacin during our October 15-17 Memoir Writing Workshop with accommodations at The Rangeley Inn. Learn more and reserve your spot at shop.downeast.com/collections/ge….

After years of apples, MOFGA's Maine Heritage Orchard has grown a pear. Between the orchard and neighboring fairgrounds, 16 varieties of pear have taken root, and staff finally got to bite into some of the fruit last fall. Read more. 👇 downeast.com/food-drink/aft…