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Tae Chong: Helping New Mainers

On Halloween night in 1976, Tae Chong sat on the floor of his cousins’ house in South Portland in the dark. Chong and his family had just travelled from South Korea to the country that would become their home. Seven-year-old

Conservation Land

Maine has over three million acres of conservation land. According to Dave Herring, executive director of Wolfe’s Neck Farm, the protected mountains, rivers, beaches, and islands are part of why we call Maine home. “A lot of us are here

Ogunquit

Photographs + stories by Maine + Maine Home+Design magazine staff As we’re packing the car for our weekend away, I tell my boyfriend Sergio that I’ve never actually been to Ogunquit, one of Maine’s quintessential coastal villages. Sergio’s been before;

Wild Safari

It’’s so early the sun isn’’t up yet over Moosehead Lake. But we are. Coffee is hot in the thermos, and we’’re in a truck with a Greenville guide heading north into the Maine woods. Chris Young’s hands are cupped

Rigor & Joy

Nancie Atwell: the Maine educator who won the Global Teacher Prize   One summer day in 1975, a young couple parked at Hendricks Head Beach on Southport. It was a quiet, narrow stretch of sand with large dark rocks rising

Azure Café

Somewhere between the quest for discount designer loafers and cold-weather camping gear, you’re going to need a break when shopping in Freeport. You’ve worked up an appetite and maybe an attitude, too. You need a place to soothe those frazzled

Vinland

There’s a spare elegance about Vinland that is similar to the restaurant’s owner and chef, David Levi. He’s soft-spoken, unhurried, and he thoughtfully chooses his words as he explains his principles and philosophy. He believes strongly in local food that

Walter’s

In the excited flurry of hot new restaurants opening in Portland, it is easy to overlook the older standbys, the reliable stalwarts, the favorites. Walter’s is at the top of that list for so many reasons. One of them is