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Maine’s 16 Best New (Or Improved) Hotels and Inns
By Brian Kevin & Adrienne PerronFrom our June 2022 issue When the pandemic upended the state’s tourism scene, Maine hoteliers didn’t hunker down — they got busy: acquiring, building, renovating,...
View ArticleVote in the Final Round of Down East’s 2022 Best of Maine!
Bookstores to breweries, museums to marinas, art galleries to architects — we want to know what Maine businesses and organizations YOU are rooting for. The post Vote in the Final Round of <i>Down...
View ArticleVote for Your Favorite Maine Lobster Roll!
If you’re not automatically forwarded, click here to cast your vote! The post Vote for Your Favorite Maine Lobster Roll! appeared first on Down East Magazine.
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The Four Maine Craft Vodkas Your Cocktail Cabinet Needs
By Brian KevinPhotographed by Clayton SimoncicFrom our June 2022 issue Since well before Russian-liquor boycotts made the headlines, Maine’s craft distillers have been turning out top-shelf vodkas —...
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Restoring the World’s Last Shaker Herb House
By Brian KevinFrom our June 2022 issue 200 years Approximate age of the Herb House at Sabbathday Lake, where the utopian religious community built the timber-frame structure (or maybe adapted an...
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Maine Historical Society Ticket Giveaway
WIN a special curator tour of Northern Threads: Two Centuries of Dress and Maine Historical Society Saturday, July 23: 2pm to 3:30 Maine Historical Society 489 Congress Street, Portland With Special...
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Summah People, Some Ahn’t
By Philip ConklingPhotograph by Peter RalstonFrom our June 2022 issue As we anticipate the pleasures of summer, many of us are in the business of scrambling to turn the water and power back on, return...
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We’re Only Beginning to Grapple with the Toxic Legacy of “Forever Chemicals”
By Kate OlsonPhotographed By Greta RybusFrom our July 2022 issue One summer morning in 1992, Henry Perkins had finished milking his herd of 80 Dutch Belted cows and was on to other chores when a...
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Maine’s Mysterious Foot-Staining Beaches Were Not What We Thought
By Will GrunewaldPhotograph by Chris EvansFrom our June 2022 issue Last June, barefoot beachgoers in southern Maine found their soles disconcertingly stained black. Outlets from the New York Times to...
View ArticleMaine News You May Have Missed
Dyer Brook While staffing shortages caused mail-delivery delays in southern Maine, some residents in and around the northern town of Dyer Brook faced a different problem: the Postal Service halted...
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Make Amanda Beal’s Grandma’s Yummy Rhubarb Squares
By Will GrunewaldFrom our June 2022 issue Two years after compiling the Maine Bicentennial Community Cookbook, Margaret Hathaway and Karl Schatz, owners of Ten Apple Farm, in Gray, were inundated with...
View ArticleSophisticated Cooking With Wild Blueberries
Melissa Chaiken, chef and co-owner with Laura Peppard of The Fiddlehead Restaurant in Bangor (84 Hammond St. 207-942-3336), builds her menus on whatever foods local farmers and producers happen to be...
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The State of Maine v. Parole
By Will GrunewaldPhotographed by Tristan SpinskiFrom our June 2022 issue One evening in June 2008, 21-year-old Brandon Brown came out of his second-floor apartment in the Old Port and walked...
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Going Back to Calcasset? Bestselling Author Linda Holmes Didn’t Think So
By Brian KevinFrom our June 2022 issue Flying Solo is out now, from Ballantine Books. thisislindaholmes.com Linda Holmes never thought she’d revisit Calcasset, the close-knit, made-up Maine harbor...
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Maine Horse Rescue Celebrates 150 Years of Success Stories
The nonprofit Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals (MSSPA) has been a leading voice for the voiceless since the 1870s, when a nationwide animal welfare movement was spurred, in part, by...
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Ash Cove Pottery Makes Stoneware with a Purpose
A potter with over 50 years of experience, Susan Horowitz prides herself on her ability to make “practical pieces that work well and bring joy to those who use them.” She launched Ash Cove Pottery in...
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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Quoddy Head State Park Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from April’s photo. I first visited Quoddy Head State Park on an epic...
View ArticleInviting Maine Islands to Visit This Summer
Ensuring and encouraging access to cherished coastal places is an integral part of Maine Coast Heritage Trust’s mission. Show your support by making summer memories on one of these conserved islands....
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The Midcoast’s Henry Knox Gets the Hamilton Treatment
By Brian KevinFrom our July 2022 issue Sure, Henry Knox wasn’t shot in a duel, and he isn’t on any currency, but the first U.S. Secretary of War’s biography goes just as hard as the first Secretary of...
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Binders Keepers Makes Eye-Popping Art from Old Books
By Adrienne PerronFrom our June 2022 issue Photo courtesy of Chelsea Porter Five years ago, a crafty aunt taught Chelsea Porter about the fine art of book folding, a meticulous process of cutting and...
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