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Little Free Libraries have landed in Washington County!

Downeast Roots and Islandport Press are developing Little Free Libraries in Milbridge and Cherryfield as part of an initiative to...

Dried Fish, Dandelion Greens and Dulse

By Dean L. Lunt While walking across the Syracuse University campus on a spring day in the 1980s, I pointed out some dandelions to...

My Love for Maine

By May Davidson We toss about the word “love” so often that it can almost seem commonplace, but as a silent, unseen force, it is the...

Xmas Fail

Charlie and me had a nice, quiet Christmas, just the two of us. (As a cashier down to the A&P, I’m on the front lines,

Old County Woman

by Kathryn Olmstead Aroostook County lost one of its treasures when Glenna Johnson Smith died August 8 at age one hundred.

Rhubarb-a-Go-Go

I know, some folks are using this time to learn a foreign language. I’m doing rhubarb. And Charlie doesn’t know what hit him.

Me, John Prine, and One Glorious Weekend in Maine

Prine was one of the finest and most acclaimed songwriters ever, a remarkable folk-country performer, and a major musical influence.