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#72 Maine Thing To Do - Meet a Farmer and the Farmers Market

#72 Maine Thing To Do - Meet a Farmer and the Farmers Market

Maine farmers’ markets offer high quality delicious foods and agricultural products, harvested fresh and sold direct to you by farmers. Markets are located throughout the State, and each offers a unique blend of personalities and products. Find out where the nearest Farmers Market is and go.  You will be delighted by the variety of Maine [...]

#87 Go Antiquing

#87 Go Antiquing

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#94 Visit a Maine Winery

#94 Visit a Maine Winery

Maine produces grapes, and blueberries and apples… and they are all used to make Maine wine. Bartlett Estate makes a fine Blueberry Wine. Blacksmiths’ make three sparkling fruit wines, grape wines and a Port-style wine made from plums, prunes, raisins and cherries. The Winterport Winery in Winterport, Maine makes wines using blueberries, pears, apples, strawberries, [...]

#93 Buy some Earmuffs - invented in Maine

#93 Buy some Earmuffs - invented in Maine

It all started with ears, Chester Greenwood’s ears. Chester’s ears got cold. They got so cold something had to be done. That something was an invention by a fifteen-year-old boy that would support him for the rest of his life. The invention? Earmuffs. Later, when Chester Greenwood had become a legend, newspaper writers started the [...]

#59 Maine Beer,  Best in the World

#59 Maine Beer, Best in the World

Maine is well known for it’s quality beer, and its prohibitionists.  The worlds first abstinence society was founded in Portland in 1815.  By 1851, Portland’s Mayor Neal Dow convinced Maine’s Gov to sign and enact prohibition.  Maine was the first state in the Union to do so, and called it “The Maine Law”.  It only [...]

#23 Maine Art and Artists

#23 Maine Art and Artists

Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, George Bellows, Marguerite Zorach, Berenice Abbott, Georgia O’Keeffe, and three generations of the Wyeth family.
The Maine Art Museum Trail include Bates College Museum of Art (Lewiston), Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick), Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville), Farnsworth Art Museum (Rockland), Ogunquit Museum of American Art (Ogunquit), Portland Museum of [...]

#46 Maine Thing To Do - Buy Maine's Jewelry- and Tourmaline

#46 Maine Thing To Do - Buy Maine’s Jewelry- and Tourmaline

Maine offers jewelry that represents the look and culture of Maine with artisans that are well trained and deep in their character and motif. Wether its pendants, gold, tourmaline, diamonds, in the form of lobsters, lighthouses, anchors, hearts, boots, animals, Maine’s craftsmen can make most any kind of jewelry.  When visiting Maine, you should take [...]

#51 Maine Thing To Do - Get a Piece of Maine

#51 Maine Thing To Do - Get a Piece of Maine

Hey if your in the market for a Maine home, condo or timeshare look no further.  Maine has some great houses at fraction of cost of other coastal communities.  If your looking for that home on the coast, Maine boasts more coast than the State of California.  Maine is a perfect place to raise your [...]

#11 Get Real, Maine Made

#11 Get Real, Maine Made

Get Real, Get Maine
Maine farmers’ markets offer high quality delicious foods and agricultural products, harvested fresh and sold direct to you by the farmers, your neighbors. Markets are located throughout the State, and each offers a unique blend of personalities and products. Search below for a market in your town or county. Visit more than [...]

#48 Visit Freeport - The Birthplace of Maine

#48 Visit Freeport - The Birthplace of Maine

Freeport is known for a few things; like the birthplace of Maine, the great sailing vessel The Dash , MacMillan- the artic explorer, its shipbuilding history, the castle, Wolfe’s Neck, Mast Landing Sanctuary, Harraseeket River, Samuelson- the great marathon runner, The Maine Desert, great shopping in its many outlet stores, but there is one gorilla [...]

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