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Hurricane Island Outward Bound School

Life is An Expedition: The long way home for the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School   Picture a bold dome of gray-white granite crested with the dark shapes of spikey spruce emerging from a foggy morning somewhere off midcoast Maine.

Sea Bags: Made in Maine

“Green in Product and Practice and Made in Maine”   Durable, practical, simple—like Maine itself. These are the qualities that go into every square inch of each hand-sewn product manufactured by an assortment of 30-something craftspeople at Sea Bags on

Shawn Gorman, Chairman at L.L.Bean

On Beanness and Maineness: Meet the new chairman of the board at L.L.Bean, who tells us, “You don’t just fly to the top here as a family member. You pay your dues.”   The story goes that back in 1976,

MoonTide Garden

Art that ebbs, gleams, flows Even the most static sculpture is never seen the same twice. Light and shadow can vary from minute to minute, environments shift and move, and perspective nearly always changes with time. Few pieces make this

Lemongrass

Stories are everywhere at Lemongrass. In the paintings on the walls that are gifts from patrons. In the framed images of rural Vietnam. And in the various toy scooters that accent tables. Scooters are ubiquitous in Vietnam, so I assume

Pairing Wines Up at Natalie’’s

The idea of pairing wines can be a daunting task, especially since the age-old rules of “red with meat and white with fish” are not completely valid. But it’s simpler than you think. Let’’s start with acidity. When confronted with

Fort Kent

48HRS – March 2014 Photographs + stories by Maine magazine staff: Katy Kelleher, Managing Editor   Aroostook Country is remote and wild, beautiful and vast. It’s up north, way up north, where the Canadian border is just a stone’s throw