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Love & Lobsters Celebrates Small-Town Love
When Phoebe Buffay declared on-again off-again couple Ross and Rachel to be each other’s lobster on the sitcom Friends, an entire generation latched on to the misbelief that lobsters mate for life....
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Diners in Downtown Bath Give Linden + Front a Warm Welcome
By Brian KevinPhotos by Hannah HoggattFrom our December 2024 issue What makes a neighborhood restaurant click? Well, for starters, it ought to be filled with neighbors. That sure seemed to be the case...
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Santa and Mrs. Claus’s Favorite Maine Place
By Charlie PikeFrom our December 2024 issue Last year, Markus Steelgrave, whose bushy white beard and twinkly blue eyes give off strong Santa vibes even when he’s not dressing the part, spotted a...
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10th Annual Down East Reader Photo Contest Winners
After a full decade, this magazine’s annual photo contest is still, ahem, clicking right along, thanks to our many talented shutterbug readers who keep coming up with incredible shots year in and year...
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Vibrant Holiday Décor and Paint Shine Up a Kennebunk Saltbox
By Sarah StebbinsPhotos by Erin LittleFrom our December 2024 issue When Judy Minaudo was growing up in suburban Cleveland in the ’60s, her grandmother’s house was one of the grooviest spots around. At...
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Christmas in Maine
Introduction by Will GrunewaldIllustration by Cat O’NeilFrom our December 2023 issue By the middle of the last century, few poets were so prolific and esteemed as Robert P. Tristram Coffin. A...
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A Hanukkah Staple Gets a Spicy Twist in a Bowdoin Professor’s New...
By Brian KevinPhotos by Ilán RabchinskeyFrom our December 2024 issue Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook by Ilan Stavans and Margaret Boyle. Copyright 2024 and used by permission of the...
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A Very Merry Down East Christmas Classic
By David O. WoodburyFrom our January 1963 issue When fall came that year at the seashore, my mother said she could not undertake the “horror” of another boardinghouse winter in Boston. She would have...
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20 Years of Reinventing Biddeford’s Historic Pepperell Mill Complex
By Charlie PikeFrom our December 2024 issue In 1831, Boston developer Samuel Batchelder stood on a bluff overlooking the Saco River’s roaring falls, in what is now Biddeford, and envisioned a sea of...
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Not the Same ol’ Spiel: Playing on a Frozen Pond Gives Curling a Whole New Spin
By Nora SaksPhotos by Dave WaddellFrom our December 2024 issue In a frigid, bluebird Sunday afternoon last winter, the Lime City and Swan Vegas curling clubs gathered on Chickawaukie Pond, in...
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6 Maine-Made Drinks to Keep You Warm All Winter
By Charlie PikeFrom our January 2025 issue Classic Dark Drinking Chocolate | RAGGED COAST CHOCOLATES Ragged Coast Chocolates started 18 years ago in Kate Shaffer’s home kitchen on remote Isle au Haut....
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January 2025
Buy This Issue! Special Feature Winter Wonder From ice climbing to island ferries and from hot drinks to warm mittens, our guide to the people, places, gear, and more making it possible to have an...
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Can You Name This Hilltop Preserve?
From our January 2025 issue This little hill, despite its humble stature, offers up big views of surrounding peaks and coastline on account of the fact that it’s covered with scrubby wild-blueberry...
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Julia Gagnon’s Favorite Maine Place
By Kathleen Capetta From our January 2025 issue For six weeks last spring, Mainers rallied around Cumberland’s Julia Gagnon. As the singer advanced through several rounds of competition on American...
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The Down East Stories You Loved Most in 2024
10. “You Can’t Explain It to Anybody” | October 2024 By Jesse Ellison | Photos by Sofia Aldinio After a mass shooting took the lives of 18 people last October, families, friends, and survivors were...
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Christmas in Maine
Introduction by Will GrunewaldIllustration by Cat O’NeilFrom our December 2023 issue By the middle of the last century, few poets were so prolific and esteemed as Robert P. Tristram Coffin. A...
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How Ski Bums Bucked State Control and Founded the Town of Carrabassett Valley
Introduction by Will GrunewaldFrom our December 2024 issue To the untrained eye, the town of Carrabassett Valley might not look like much of a town at all, author Virginia M. Wright points out at the...
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Our 10 Favorite Down East Photos of 2024
Down East’s deep roster of talented photographers fills our pages with an abundance of beautiful landscapes, interesting people, and much more. Photo editor Tara Rice and staff photographer Dave...
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19 Maine Winter Events You Won’t Want to Miss
From our January 2025 issueLast updated on January 2, 2025 Electric Mountain FestivalSugarloafJanuary 10–11 It’s an après-ski rave as electronic-dance musicians and DJs take over The Widowmaker pub at...
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A Smoked Hard Cider, Concocted in Winthrop Last Winter, Is Now Ripe For Enjoying
By Sandy LangPhotos by Peter Frank EdwardsFrom our January 2025 issue On a late-January evening at Absolem Cider Company, in Winthrop, wisps of smoke tinged with the sweet-tangy scent of cooking...
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