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Team U.S.A. Sports Maine-Made Gear at the 2024 Paris Olympics
By Aaron BrittPhotos by Michael D. WilsonFrom our August 2024 issue The shop floor at Lewiston shoemaker Rancourt & Co. was a cacophony of whirring, snipping, and clattering on a recent afternoon,...
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8 Fierce Summer Olympians from Maine
By Al Daniel and Sarah Stebbins Illustration by Steven SalernoFrom our July 2024 issue In July 1924, Lewiston native Bob LeGendre sailed into the long-jump pit at the Paris Olympics and set a new...
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Vazquez Mexican Takeout Is Spicing Things Up in Milbridge
By Tressa VersteegPhotos by Dave Waddell From our July 2024 issue Behind the counter at Vazquez Mexican Takeout is a constant whirl of activity: pork sizzles, fresh tortillas get pressed, peppers are...
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In Augusta, This Wooded Backyard Hosts Some of the Most Unusual Plants Around
By Virginia M. Wright Photos by Kelsey Kobik From our August 2024 issue Thirteen years ago, Laura Boyett stepped onto the deck of a house for sale on Augusta’s Howard Hill, and her gaze settled upon...
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H. Allen Fernald’s Favorite Maine Place
By Virginia M. WrightFrom our 70th Anniversary issue H. Allen and Sally Fernald didn’t care for the magazine Sally’s father gifted them when they moved to the New York suburbs in the 1960s. A young...
View Article5 Things You Didn’t Know About LifeFlight of Maine
1. LifeFlight of Maine is not just a general name for medical-transport helicopters. News reports of accidents or other emergencies in Maine will often mention LifeFlight by name, but people may not...
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6 Maine Novels to Add to Your Summer Reading List
By Michaela Cavallaro & Bridget M. Burns From our August 2024 & August 2022 issues Burn, by Peter Heller$28, hardcover, Knopf When childhood friends Storey and Jess emerge from the northern...
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Can You Name This Craggy Western Maine Chasm?
From our August 2024 issue Accessing this cavernous rock formation in western Maine isn’t as fiendishly difficult as its name might suggest. On the most direct approach, a dirt road is driveable most...
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Eric Darling Untangles How to Turn Old Lobstering Lines into Vivid Landscapes
By Virginia M. WrightPhotos by Hannah HoggattFrom our July 2024 issue Eric Darling used to paint a surreal black-and-white world populated by “the Skullys,” a grim clan equipped with expressionless,...
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Hancock Lumber’s Online Tools Help You Envision Your Next Home Design Project
In 1848, two brothers from Casco bought 400 acres of timberland in their hometown, contracted the construction of a new dam and water-powered mill, and launched the business that would become Hancock...
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The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt
By Bridget Burns, Will Grunewald, Nora Saks, and Sarah Stebbins From our May 2024 issue How to Play 1. Plan of attack. If this scavenger hunt simply inspires you to check out a few new things here or...
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Is This the Maine-iest Bite Ever?
By Virginia M. WrightPhotos by Tara RiceFrom our August 2024 issue Since Shannon’s Unshelled seafood shack opened a decade ago, customers have been able to wash down their lobster rolls with Maine’s...
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Where in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Artist’s Bridge, Newry Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from June’s photo. I had just arrived home from the Maine Veterans...
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Puzzle Mountain Bakery’s Self-Service Model Is As Easy as Pie
By Chelsea DiehlPhotos by Cait BourgaultFrom our August 2024 issue Twenty-five years ago, Mary Jo Kelly set some fruit pies with handwritten price tags on a table at the end of her driveway, on Route...
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Highland Green Residents Raise $400,000 to Help Unhoused Neighbors
From 2020 to 2023, the number of people experiencing homelessness in Maine more than tripled. Even before the pandemic, Maine’s emergency shelters fielded more requests than they could accommodate....
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An Artist Called Jamie
By Marge CookFrom our March 1968 issue Jamie Wyeth seldom takes a day off, but he likes to disappear on his birthdays. Last July 6th he collected some friends, hired a boat, and went sailing off the...
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This Bremen Cape Is Filled With the Spoils of a Couple’s Antiquing Adventures
By Sarah StebbinsPhotos by Erin LittleFrom our August 2024 issue Prudence and Roger Kiessling can trace their relationship through the many antiques in their 1937 Bremen Cape. In Prudence’s studio,...
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4 Maine Soda Fountains Serving Up a Dose of Nostalgia
By Will GrunewaldFrom our August 2024 70th Anniversary issue I remember the first time I went to an old-fashioned soda fountain as a kid. I was maybe 12 or 13, and new owners had just reopened a 1920s...
View ArticleThe Nature Conservancy Is Working With Lobstermen to Shift Gear
On June 5, 2024, a female humpback whale known as Chunk was spotted off Cape Elizabeth entangled in fishing gear. By the following day, the whale had died and was hauled from Casco Bay for a necropsy...
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Vote for Your Favorite Maine Pics in 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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