Features A Very Merry Down East Christmas Classic. In “Grandpa’s Christmas Present,” from our January 1963 issue, the author and his father and grandfather get themselves into some cheery holiday hijinks.

Features “You Can’t Explain It to Anybody” After a mass shooting took the lives of 18 people last October, families, friends, and survivors were left to process their grief and trauma in myriad ways.

Brownville’s Food Pantry for Deer has almost 100,000 YouTube subscribers and more than 50,000 Facebook followers tuning in from 158 countries.

Renys is a third generation, family owned and operated business in the State of Maine. R.H’s oldest son, John, joined the company in 1957 at the age of 5 and his middle son, Robert D. (better known as “Bob”) Reny joined the company in 1959 at the age of 7.

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To the untrained eye, the town of Carrabassett Valley might not look like much of a town at all, author Virginia M. Wright points out at the start of A Town Built by Ski Bums: The Story of Carrabassett Valley, Maine.There’s Sugarloaf, of course, the state’s tallest ski mountain and the reason that the local population of fewer than 700 swells to some 10,000 on prime snowy …

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The Best Places to Camp in Maine. From much-loved state parks to far-flung tent villages, mom-and-pop campgrounds to island getaways, these 25 spots are perfect for kindling a fire, rolling out a sleeping bag, and unwinding in the Maine outdoors.