10 Historic Architects Who Profoundly Shaped the Way Maine Looks
By Virginia M. WrightFrom the Fall 2023 issue of Maine Homes by Down East Maine’s most influential architects since the early 19th century designed buildings that expressed the priorities and...
View ArticleUnlearning a Sense of Urgency on Ogunquit’s Marginal Way
By Dominic ScicchitanoFrom our October 2023 issue Tree #146, an eastern red cedar, appears at first to be approaching death, but it’s not. Half uprooted on the edge of Marginal Way by some maniacal...
View ArticleAfter a Tumultuous Few Years, the DaPonte String Quartet Plays a Transition
By Douglas RooksFrom our October 2023 issue A thin note hangs in the air as the three members of the DaPonte String Quartet lower their bows. In an instant, they take to debating, passionately, how to...
View ArticleA Teacher’s Boat-Inspired Machiasport Home Is On Point
By Sarah StebbinsFrom the Fall 2023 issue of Maine Homes by Down East After Phil Rose retired from teaching high-school English, he launched a boat-delivery service and, in 2000, built himself a house...
View ArticleCan You Name This Monumental Maine Art Walk?
In the 1960s, an artist originally from Old Town fled the capricious New York City art scene for a rural home on the midcoast. The son of a carpenter, he set about constructing massive wooden...
View ArticleBolognese Meets Benjamin Franklin at Lincolnville’s Aster & Rose
By Brian KevinPhotos by Hannah HoggattFrom our October 2023 issue When the Young family showed up at the foot of Mount Megunticook in 1777, the plantation around them was called Canaan, after the...
View ArticleThis Southern Maine Cape Is “Colorful, Chaotic, and a Little Strange”
Above: A wool IKEA rug establishes the kitchen’s rainbow palette, reiterated on a bookshelf and photo gallery wall. Wilson bought the oak table at a yard sale when she was 15; the metal chairs are a...
View ArticleThis Auburn Home Becomes a Horror Show Every Halloween
By Sara Anne DonnellyPhotos courtesy of Migdalia Mass From our October 2023 issue Migdalia Mass felt like Auburn’s William A. Robinson House had been waiting just for her: its pitched gables, its...
View ArticleCheck Out the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum’s Cool New Digs
By Will GrunewaldPhotos by Michael MoranFrom our November 2023 issue Since first opening, in 1967, Bowdoin College’s Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum resided on the first floor of a stately Gothic...
View ArticleNovember 2023
Buy This Issue! Features Keeping It General In their heyday, general stores provided a little bit of everything in towns across Maine. Now, though, many of those old establishments have fallen by the...
View ArticleSean Sullivan Spills On 10 Years of Leading the Maine Brewers’ Guild
By Joel CrabtreePhotos by Ryan David Brown From our November 2023 issue Before Sean Sullivan became executive director of the Maine Brewers’ Guild just over a decade ago, the position didn’t even...
View ArticleFashion Designer Alexa Stark Spiffs Up the Waldoboro Inn
By Sarah StebbinsPhotos by Nola LoganFrom our November 2023 issue For more than a decade, Alexa Stark has designed envelope-pushing clothing, pieced together from old garments and surplus fabric from...
View ArticlePhilosopher Daniel Dennett On the Illusion of Consciousness
By Rachel SladePhotos by Tara RiceFrom our October 2023 issue When the affable car-rental attendant asked where I was headed, I said, “Up to Maine, to meet a world-renowned philosopher,” and then...
View Article3 Newcomers Join Maine’s Vibrant Indie-Bookstore Scene
By Sarah StebbinsFrom our November 2023 issue Back Cove Books SETTING: A serpentine space with a living-room vibe (dark-wood, floor-to-ceiling shelving, houseplants, local art) in the 1897 Odd Fellows...
View ArticleLifeFlight of Maine Marks 25 Years of Service
In April 1998, medical leaders, together with then Governor Angus King, delivered a promise to the people of Maine: to create the safest world-class air medical system possible. “At that time, we were...
View ArticleWhere in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Swan Island Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from September’s photo. During the summer of 2011, a fellow Jesuit and I boarded...
View ArticleA Tree-House Compound Takes Root On Monmouth’s Cobbosseecontee Lake
By Michaela CavallaroPhotos by Tara RiceFrom the Fall 2023 issue of Maine Homes by Down East As you follow a meandering dirt road through tall hemlocks toward Monmouth’s Cobbosseecontee Lake, a pair...
View ArticleA Family Fulfills Its Goal of Hiking Every Footpath in Acadia
By Michele ChristlePhotos courtesy of David BlanchardFrom our November 2023 issue On an overcast day last summer, the Blanchard family, from Massachusetts, picked their way up Giant Slide Trail in...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleMaine’s General Stores: Where Tradition Thrives (and Retail Giants Don’t)
By Jesse EllisonFrom our November 2023 issue Stop into Owls Head General Store and start asking around about what it was like during the several years the place was closed. “Depressing” is the word...
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