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The Modern Master of Wabanaki Basketry
By Virginia M. WrightPhotos by Jason Paige SmithFrom our June 2024 issue Jeremy Frey has been thinking about legacies, the one he inherited and the one he will pass on. Slender, with a closely trimmed...
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Merryspring Nature Center is Celebrating a Half a Century of Horticulture
Mary Ellen Ross grew up surrounded by plants. The daughter of a Connecticut greenhouse owner, she studied horticulture in college and, after graduating, took her knowledge to Camden. There, she and...
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Catching Up with the Fellows Who Dreamed Up the Island Institute Fellows Program
By Nora SaksPhotos courtesy of Island InstituteFrom our June 2024 issue The way Philip Conkling and Peter Ralston riff on each other’s stories and finish each other’s sentences brings to mind an old...
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Fun Things to Do While Visiting in Acadia National Park
By Nora SaksFrom our June 2024 issue A great vacation in Acadia certainly doesn’t require any organized activities or excursions. There’s always more to explore solo. But organized activities can...
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Andrea de Leon’s Favorite Maine Place
By Sarah StebbinsFrom our June 2024 issue Since National Public Radio created the role of Northeast bureau chief, in 1999, only one person has held the job. New Gloucester’s Andrea de Leon assumed the...
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In Columbia Falls, a Proposal for the World’s Tallest Flagpole Caused Quite a...
By Nora SaksFrom our July 2024 issue In the spring of 2022, Morrill Worcester and his sons, Rob and Mike, went on Fox News to, for the first time, publicly reveal plans they had hatched for a swath of...
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Can a Portland Startup’s 3D-Printed Boards Shape the Future of Surfing?
By Molly GeorgePhotos by Miranda Rice From our June 2024 issue On a recent afternoon in a whitewashed lab in Portland’s Roux Institute, the nozzle inside a massive, whirring 3D printer was squeezing...
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In Hampden, Gardener Erin Clark Has Created a Fantasyland
Erin Clark’s patio garden emphasizes layered mounds of soft colors and John Davis roses, a hardy climbing variety with delicate pink blossoms and a cascading habit. Clark took divisions from this...
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12 Maine-Made Skin-Care Faves With a Little Vacationland Under the Lid
By Adrienne Perron and Sarah StebbinsFrom our July 2023 and July 2024 issues Fresh Pickins’ Sunsifter Solar Cream With plants grown on their Cape Elizabeth farm, Dan Marion and Dominic Thibault make...
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Secundo, Chef Sam Ostrow’s New Restaurant, Is a Near-Perfect Italian Joint
By Brian KevinPhotos by Heidi KirnFrom our July 2024 issue When, in 2018, Sam Ostrow opened Kittery’s Festina Lente — after stints across the street at Black Birch, at Portsmouth’s Black Trumpet, and...
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Maine’s Largest Independent Home and Community Health-Care Organization Has a...
When Androscoggin Home Healthcare and Hospice launched in 1966, its sole focus was home health care in Androscoggin County and surrounding communities. In the decades since, the nonprofit...
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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Primo Restaurant, in Rockland Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from May’s photo. Plenty of baby kale from that garden has...
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Maine Galleries and Studios to Visit This Summer
Artists have been attracted for centuries to Maine’s rugged and romantic landscape. Today is no different, with museums, galleries, and studios exhibiting artists who continue to use their craft to...
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Meet One of Maine’s Youngest Lobstermen
By David HowardPhotos by Tara RiceFrom our July 2024 issue Thomas Dube was already wearing his orange Grundéns waterproof coveralls when I arrived at his house last fall, although he was not quite...
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Enter Your Maine Pics into Our 10th Annual Reader Photo Contest!
Winners in three categories — Landscape, Lifestyle, and Wildlife — are eligible for thousands of dollars in cash and prizes, including a spot on a Down East Adventures photo workshop, Down East...
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Zu Bakery Owner Barak Olins’s Favorite Maine Place
By Sarah StebbinsFrom our July 2024 issue Headshot by Kelsey Kobik For 22 years, Barak Olins ran Zu Bakery out of a South Freeport barn equipped with a wood-fired oven, toiling into the wee hours on...
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Wild Blueberry Land Is History
By Tressa VersteegFrom our July 2024 issue Wild blueberries thrive down east, having taken root in the region’s thin soil after glaciers receded more than 10,000 years ago. Which is precisely why a...
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An Artist’s Standish Home Is Her Canvas
By Sarah StebbinsPhotos by Rachel SiebenFrom our July 2024 issue When Mercedes Foss told her now-husband, Jacob Akers, she wanted to cover their bathroom walls in copper sheeting, he was skeptical....
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Where Is “Down East” Anyway?
By Will Grunewald From our July 2024 issue Driving over the Penobscot Narrows Bridge never fails to stir a certain hard-to-define feeling, a mixture of awe and calm and anticipation conjured up by the...
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August 2024
Buy This Issue! Features Brrrthday Treats From popsicles to shaved ice to lots and lots of ice cream, 70 frozen delights for 70 years of Down East — and for a balmy, sun-drenched, blue-sky Maine...
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