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Speed the Plow

Speed the Plow

October 2013 It’s zero dark thirty on Route 1 in front of Maine Medical Center in Scarborough. A snow plow tunnels through the darkness, widening the road for safe passage when…BOOM! What the heck was that? Sadly, it was history going bump in the night. The winter was...

The Cost of Freedom

The Cost of Freedom

This best-known Maine crash site has been preserved, is easily located, and has trails.

Guns & Lobsters

Guns & Lobsters

One of every 100 people you pass on the streets of Portland may be concealing a hand gun.

The Time-Release Gift

The Time-Release Gift

Winterguide 2013 The new release of Gwen Thompson’s prizewinning novella Men Beware Women brings to light a very three-dimensional sense of our magazine. Across 28 years, so many gifted writers and artists with incredible talent have been drawn here to work with us so...

Caracas in Saco

Caracas in Saco

Winterguide 2013 Venezuelan arepas may just be the cure for a Maine winter. by Diane Hudson Maine’s new and perhaps only Venezuelan restaurant, Luis’s Arepara & Grill, is located, not in cosmopolitan Portland, but on a quiet stretch of Route 12 as it heads out of...

AR (to) GO

Winterguide 2013
The true story of Chef Sam Sriweawnetr’s bravery during the 1979 hostage crisis may have been left out of the hit movie Argo, but not out of the historical record.

Lindbergh Slept Here

Winterguide 2013
A glamorous anomaly with a past–a tiled Spanish beachfront villa designed by John Calvin Stevens–maintains her dignity against all odds.

 

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