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In Thomaston, A Couple Saves a Classic Maine Schooner Just in Time for Its...
By Nora SaksPhotos by Dave WaddellFrom our June 2024 issue The first time Josh Rowan laid eyes on Hindu was in 2007, when he agreed to captain it for a friend who ran a charter company in the Florida...
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Catch a Slice of This Smoked Alewife Pizza While You Can
By Will GrunewaldFrom our June 2024 issue Among bald eagles, ospreys, and seals, the consensus is that alewives taste great. Humans, on the other hand, tend to have less enthusiasm for the sea-run...
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Why You Should Visit Searsport on Your Way to Acadia
Just an hour south of heavily touristed Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park, a hidden gem is ready to welcome visitors. Sitting where the Penobscot River meets Penobscot Bay, the town of Searsport...
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You Might Not Know Adam Ayan, But You’ve Heard His Work
By Victoria WaslyakFrom our June 2024 issue On a wooded plot in a Portland suburb, a brown-clapboard barn hums with unreleased music. In the morning, rollicking rock riffs or twangy country notes...
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Stop to Smell the Roses in This Brunswick Garden
By Aurelia C. ScottPhotos by Tara RiceFrom our June 2024 issue Rounding the bend at the edge of Robin and David Robinson’s corner Brunswick lot, passersby encounter a stone “harvest maiden” in a crown...
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Can Norway’s New Lights Out Gallery Power an Artistic Surge?
By Sara Anne DonnellyPhotos by Cait BourgaultFrom our June 2024 issue The former snowshoe factory that houses downtown Norway’s nonprofit Lights Out Gallery is a series of derelict, leaky brown...
View ArticleEnter Your Home into the Down East Home Design Awards
Calling all design enthusiasts! We want to see what you’ve been up to. Enter the inaugural Down East Home Design Awards here.
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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from April’s photo. What a nice surprise to see the...
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Searsport Shores Invites You to Connect with Nature, Music, and Your Inner...
People have traveled to Maine to enjoy the state’s unhurried way of life for generations. With abundant forests, freshwater lakes, streams, and ponds, and, of course, the rocky coast, the landscape...
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Alsace, Union’s New French Restaurant, Serves Positively Provincial Fare
From top left: Alstation Station’s duck breast à l’orange with shiitake mushrooms and quinoa pilaf; pan-roasted Maine halibut in a bouillabaisse sauce; seared Maine dayboat scallops with cranberry...
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Saco Maker Savannah Saccarelli’s Arthropod Art Is Scary Good
By Sara Anne DonnellyPhotos by Aliza EliazarovFrom our June 2024 issue One of Savannah Saccarelli’s earliest memories is of talking to a bumblebee. “I must have been four or five and I came running...
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Where to Eat In and Around Acadia National Park On Any Budget
By Will GrunewaldFrom our June 2024 issue In many of Maine’s most spectacular natural spaces — Baxter State Park, the Allagash, Katahdin Woods and Waters, the White Mountains — you can count on one...
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Maine Coast Heritage Trust and Its Partners are Working on Acadia’s...
People come from around the world to visit Mount Desert Island and experience the renowned beauty of Acadia National Park. What they don’t see, though, are the many people working behind the scenes to...
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How the Island Institute’s Fellowship Program Became a Maine Coast Fixture
By Joel CrabtreeFrom our June 2024 issue In 1999, fresh out of college, two women signed up to be dropped into small island communities as part of the Rockland-based nonprofit Island Institute’s...
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In Arrowsic, a Father and Son Dream Up a Gem of a Retreat
By Sarah Stebbins Photos by Rachel SiebenFrom our June 2024 issue The Arrowsic home Aaron Ruff and his father, Paul, designed together began as a simple post-and-beam structure. “Then, my dad kept...
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Where to Stay While Visiting Acadia National Park
By Will GrunewaldPhotos by Cait BourgaultFrom our June 2024 issue Acadia and a whiff of refinement have always gone hand in hand, owing to the robber barons and other well-heeled rusticators who...
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Buy This Issue! Features Downwind and East The creation of the Downeast Maine National Heritage Area raises some fundamental questions, like what really is “down east” anyway, and what’s so unique...
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A New Pastry Shop Brings a Czech Snacking Tradition to the County
By Brian KevinPhotos by Dave WaddellFrom our June 2024 issue The kolache is a cosmopolitan pastry: well-traveled, adaptable. It was the Czechs who started stuffing fruit filling into folds of puffy,...
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Can You Name This Quarry Perched Above a Quiet Maine Cove?
From our July 2024 issue A vast field of exposed granite glitters with flecks of pink and white feldspar and gray quartz at this perch above a quiet cove. Formed at least 360 million years ago, when...
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Swaths of Summer Bloomers Color This Barters Island Garden
By Virginia M. WrightPhotos by Tara RiceFrom our April 2024 Home & Garden issue The first time Elsie Freeman’s father visited her new cottage on Barters Island, in Boothbay, he sank up to his hips...
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