The Kansas native, and owner of Meri Meri party supplies, says her heart is in Castine, where she has summered since 1994.

But recently, he’s begun selling off some of his 18,000-piece collection to make room for another passion: lobster buoys.

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Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from the December photo of Bass Harbor.

After 25 years living in New York City, Alex Cass, his wife, and their two children, ages 9 and 12, left Brooklyn for a seven-acre property in the small rural town of Roxbury, Connecticut. “We were ...