Maine’s Best Diners
Along with the rest of New England, Maine is known for unpretentious, down-home, comfort food like meatloaf, mashed potatoes, pot roast, chicken pot pie, and other traditional dishes. Nothing too fancy, it’s the kind of food that’ll stick to your ribs and fill you up with memories of the meals your grandmother might have cooked […]
Written by Kathy Hawkins on May 30, 2007
Filed Under Maine, Restaurants, People, Food
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New Gloucester, Maine: The Last of the Shakers
About forty minutes from Portland, a small town called New Gloucester is home to the last remaining members of a famous and formerly widespread religious order — the Shakers.
The Shakers began as a nine-person group, led by Mother Ann Lee. They came to the United States from England in 1774, seeking a place to practice […]
Written by Kathy Hawkins on May 22, 2007
Filed Under Maine, Portland, People, History
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Artists and Writers of Maine
Maine’s most famous full-time resident is, without question, the writer Stephen King. The Bangor-based master of horror has based nearly all of his books in Maine, frequently setting the story in a fictional town called Derry, or an imaginary island by the name of Castle Rock. As such, Mainers have suffered through many films based […]
Written by Kathy Hawkins on May 22, 2007
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