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How to Carry Your Wife | Ask the Expert

Giving new meaning to “spousal support,” Elliot and Giana Storey share their secrets for winning a sports competition like no other.

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Stephen King Quote | Knowledge & Wisdom

Stephen King (born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine). Following on the heels of his 70th birthday this year—and the release of the big-screen adaptation of his novel It—Halloween seems a fitting time to celebrate Maine’s horror master.

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Tour de Maine | First Light

An unforgettable bike trip into the heart of a famous landscape and the lives of its people.

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Beacon of Strength | Mary’s Farm

I almost drowned three times before I turned 5. The first near-miss happened when I was only 3 and my father was carrying me out to the big surf, as I had begged him to do. An enormous wave tore me from his arms and into the crashing sea. It felt as if I had […]

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Tomatoes | In Season

The tomato is a relative latecomer to the American table, the product of a meandering journey from its native South America through Europe and back to the Americas. Along the way, it was met with suspicion: A member of the nightshade family, it was assumed to be poisonous and used only as an ornamental plant. […]

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Yankee Classic | The Keeper

Bill Johnson’s lifelong collecting obsession has created, depending on whom you ask, an eyesore, a junkyard, or an unforgettable, unknown museum.

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Ask Historic New England | August 2017

I’m confused: The walls in the wood shed of my old New England farmhouse are made of rough wooden boards. Are these boards shiplap? It’s a hundred miles from my house to the ocean…. —Jordan T., Tiverton, RI It’s not clear when the definition of the term shiplap shifted from a type of overlapping joinery […]

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