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Why Are Tens of Thousands Tuning in to Watch Maine Deer Feeding on YouTube?
By Nora SaksPhotos by Dave WaddellFrom our April 2023 Animals issue The sun is still groggy as some 212 white-tailed deer start milling around Richard McMahon’s backyard. It’s January, the middle of a...
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No Meat, No Gluten, No Problem at Toast in Kittery
By Will GrunewaldPhotographed by Danielle SykesFrom our April 2023 issue If you’re like me, you’ve never asked for a grilled cheese but, please, hold the cheese. So it was only warily that I ordered...
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Take Your Photography to the Next Level with Down East Staff Photographer...
Dave Waddell has some 15 years experience professionally photographing everything from breathtaking wild landscapes to gorgeous restaurant plates to idyllic Main Streets to environmental portraits of...
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Remembering Maine’s Failed 1980s Attempt to Reintroduce Caribou
As told to Ron JosephFrom our April 2023 Animals issue Mainers have twice attempted, unsuccessfully, to re-establish herds of woodland caribou that roamed the north woods before market hunters...
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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Perkins Cove, Ogunquit Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from February’s photo. I recall diving off this bridge many times as...
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7 Meow-velous Maine-Made Pet Products
By Adrienne PerronPhotographed by Michael D. WilsonFrom our April 2023 Animals issue Maine Street Bee Paw Protector Coconut oil is a key ingredient in this all-natural salve from Freeport’s beeswax...
View Article13 Maine Summer Camps the Kids Will Love
1. Acadia Institute 9 Lower Dunbar Road, Seal Harbor, Maine, 04675800-375-0058explore@acadiainstitute.com Based in Seal Harbor, Maine, the Acadia Institute of Oceanography hosts more than 200 students...
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Meet the Hagfish, the Slime-Spewing Star of Maine’s Nastiest Little Fishery
By Virginia M. WrightFrom our April 2023 Animals issue The first time Vinalhaven lobsterboat captain Frank Thompson trapped hagfish in the Gulf of Maine, the pinkish-gray, snakelike animals popped the...
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A Musical Renaissance
Since 2004, Yarmouth’s Capt. S. C. Blanchard House, a sea captain’s home built in 1855, has housed 317 Main Community Music Center. This year, the organization opened its new addition, built on the...
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Turning Ideas Into Innovations
Justine Bassett, director of innovation at UNE, loves walking around the university’s P.D. Merrill Makerspace, surrounded by student projects — the whiteboard full of notes, CPUs connecting mazes of...
View ArticleNominate Your Faves for Down East‘s 2023 Best of Maine!
Bookstores to burgers, museums to marinas, art galleries to architects — we want to know what Maine businesses and organizations YOU are rooting for.
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Tootie’s, in Biddeford, Is Taking Tempeh Mainstream
By Sarah StebbinsPhotographed by Clayton SimoncicFrom our April 2023 Animals issue Sarah Speare, a vegan, really wants people to see the potential in tempeh, the soybean cake that, despite likely...
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The 27 Best Places in Maine to Go With Your Dog
By Aislinn Sarnacki Photos by Tara RiceFrom our April 2023 Animals issue Leave Only Paw Prints: Parks and Preserves Acadia National Park With no backcountry to speak of, Acadia is one of the country’s...
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Following Their Noses to Endangered Species
By Kathryn MilesPhotos by Ashley L. ContiFrom our April 2023 Animals issue In a lot of ways, Chili Bean is your typical three-year-old Labrador retriever: exuberant, untiring, extremely scent-driven....
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James Francis’s Favorite Maine Place
By Brian KevinFrom our April 2023 Animals issue Depictions of animals are central to much of James Francis’s art, but he’d never describe himself as a wildlife artist. “We have a creation story about...
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Hannah Berta’s “Taxidermy” Is Fierce, Friendly, and Fake
By Monique BrouillettePhotographed by Dave WaddellFrom our April 2023 Animals issue Hannah Berta has a way of making paper come to life. Her first love was cut-paper sculpture, which she still makes....
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Is Wildlife Getting More Photogenic Or Are Trail Cams Really That Good?
By Will GrunewaldFrom our April 2023 Animals issue Early in the pandemic, Bangor Daily News staffers realized that reader-submitted trail-cam photos and videos they posted online were drawing...
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Mark Picard Has Likely Photographed More Moose Than Any Other Mainer
By Brian KevinFrom our April 2023 Animals issue Mark Picard was an amateur wildlife photographer living in western Massachusetts when he took his first trip to Baxter State Park, in search of Maine’s...
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How Renys Became the Maine Adventure
Quality Merchandise, Great Values, and a Truly Unique Shopping Experience. You Will Find All Of This And More At Renys! In 1949, Robert H. Reny (better known to all as “R.H.”), opened his first store...
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Project Puffin at 50: A Success Story, But Still Fragile
By Derrick Z. JacksonFrom our April 2023 Animals issue Atlantic puffins in Maine represent a globally recognized victory in wildlife conservation — and they offer a poignant warning about climate...
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