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Brunswick, Maine, doesn’t feel like a tourist town

Still, visitors will find no shortage of fun ways to spend their time

By Jonathan Levitt

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  November 30, 2011

Downtown Brunswick, full of grand old houses and specimen trees, sprawls between the old mills and Androscoggin River rapids to the ivy and tweed of Bowdoin College. The Fort Andross Mill complex, a 100,000-square-foot former cotton mill, still stands on the shore of the river facing the wild falls, and is now full of artist, yoga, and dance studios, restaurants, and a giant antique market. Along Maine Street perch shops and restaurants galore.

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