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In Milbridge, Pop-Up Gardens Fight Food Insecurity and Obesity
By Tina Fischer | Photographed by Molly Haley Chris Kuhni moved her family out of Pennsylvania to Cherryfield 25 years ago and describes her Down East surroundings as “paradise.” But as a nurse...
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Portland’s Sign of the Times
By Peter Andrey Smith The neoclassical face of the Time and Temperature Building rises 146 feet over downtown Portland’s Monument Square. Through the building’s entry on Congress Street and past the...
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Down East‘s Cutest Pets Photo Contest
Share the cutest photo(s) of your pet with us for a chance to get your furry friend’s photo in Down East magazine and support P.A.W.S. Animal Adoption Center at the same time! Submission period...
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In Praise of the Christmas Goose
By Brian KevinPhotographed by Tristan Spinski My family started roasting a Christmas goose a few years ago for lack of any other Yuletide food tradition. On Thanksgiving, it’s turkey. On Hanukkah,...
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Ben’s Picks: Weekly(ish) Photo Faves
Thanksgiving PHOTOGRAPHED BY BENJAMIN WILLIAMSON I’m thinking of all of the things I’m grateful for this year, and the fact that I live in Maine is a big one. We recently moved from Brunswick to Bath...
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Give the Gift of the Maine Outdoors
A ski getaway. Before kids, Down East editor in chief Brian Kevin and his wife, Elsa, used to gift each other an annual holiday cross-country skiing weekend. “Just a couple of nights in a lodge or...
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In Bangor, A Mighty Advocate for Cancer Patients, Founded By a College Student
By Susan Geib | Photographed by Molly Haley The young guy with the pressed shirt and unassuming smile handing out groceries from a tent outside Brewer’s Northern Light Cancer Care? That would be Matt...
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Novelist Jonathan Lethem Goes Back to the Land
By Buzz Poole In a near-future world where technology has ceased to function — cars, firearms, electricity itself — the foggy, rocky (and fictional) peninsula of Tinderwick, Maine, is home to an...
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How It’s Made: The Thos. Moser Continuous Arm Chair
For nearly 50 years, furniture crafted by Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers has been sought after by discerning customers, commissioned for popes and presidents, and installed in penthouse boardrooms and the...
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Editors’ Picks for Maine-Made Holiday Gifts
By Jen Derose | Photographed by Mark Fleming | Styled by Jennifer Fleming CONSUMABLES Frontier Maple Candy Frontier Maple Sugarworks’s candy boxes are filled with maple sugar molded into mustaches,...
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The Schooner That Became a Celebrity
By David Shribman With her elliptical stern, distinctive long bowsprit, and gracefully curved hull, she was elegance afloat. She plied the seas with cargoes of molasses or timber, salt or fertilizer,...
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6 Maine-Made Trimmings to Deck Your Halls
HOVER OVER ITEMS TO DISPLAY DETAILS Scarlet Smile WreathMorris & Essex CardsAlways Piper StockingsSara Fitz Gift WrapThirdlee & Co. OrnamentsFaithful Hound Tree Skirt By Sarah Stebbins |...
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Challah at Bath’s Centre Street Bakery!
By Will Grunewald | Photographed by Derek Bissonnette Challah, the airy braided bread, is a staple of Jewish families’ Sabbath and holiday spreads. Around Maine, it can be tough to find, but a lot...
View ArticleMaine News You May Have Missed
Embden A man from North Carolina, using a metal detector, found a 1798 penny outside a church. The pre-Lincoln coin bears the visage of Lady Liberty. The man also found an 1818 penny and a British...
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How the Bangor Daily News Became the Country’s First Newspaper to Call the...
By Brian Kevin Like plenty of other Americans, Dan MacLeod was up late on Thursday, November 5, glued to the couch at his home in Unity, watching presidential election returns trickle in on his phone...
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Rockport Has a Lot of Views
By Virginia M. Wright | Photographed by Benjamin Williamson Several times a day, Peter Ralston stands outside the door of his Rockport gallery, his iPhone pressed to his ear. Reception is lousy inside...
View ArticleWhere in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
The Bennett-Bean Covered Bridge Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from October’s photo. “My husband and I have fished the...
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Birds of Maine Lands On Bookshelves
Courtesy of Princeton University Press By Will Grunewald In Birds of Maine, the cedar waxwing is “demure,” whereas the common redpoll is a “bright, cheery beauty,” and the Kentucky warbler appears...
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How Sweet May Co.’s Courtney Roberts Gets It Done From Her Dining Room Table
By Sara Anne Donnelly | Photographed by Keri Herer Sweet May Co., best known for its snuggly-hip hats and hair accessories for kids, started with a glossy-white beginner Singer sewing machine. It was...
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Are These Cookies Good For You?
By Kate McCartyPhotographed by Mark Fleming Since 2012, the decadent halos of fried potato dough at Holy Donut have inspired near-religious devotion among Portlanders. Now, founder and doughnut...
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