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The Zen of Zao Ze
By Will GrunewaldPhotographed by Jason A. Frank Chef Cara Stadler in Tao Yuan’s dining room, now “takeout-box storage land,” she says. It’s no secret that the past nine months have been bad for...
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Features Down East Reader Photo Contest This year’s contest saw nearly 1,300 submissions in three categories: landscape, wildlife, and lifestyle. And even in year six of the competition, we can’t stop...
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David Whitney’s Favorite Maine Place
The truth is, Somerset County’s rugged Coburn Mountain is just one of several Maine places that David Whitney name checks as a favorite. The cofounder (together with his wife, Holly) of Whitney...
View ArticleCan You Name This Institution and the Town Where It’s Found?
The arch-windowed building at the end of this snowy courtyard was named for a Mainer who made his reputation and fortune in chain retail in the middle 20th century. (We’ve digitally removed his name...
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We Can Still Hang Out Outside!
ABOVE: Around the firepit at Oxbow Beer Garden, in Oxford, where the kitchen’s still turning out pizzas and calzones and the dining room is outside. By Brian KevinSlideshow photos by Cait Bourgault...
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Kenneth Roberts’s Hot Buttered Rum Recipe
By Brian Kevin Two things that will vastly improve your time spent socializing outdoors this winter: a good thermos and a recipe for hot buttered rum. No wintertime cocktail is Maine-ier. Rum was the...
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What Would Peary Do?
By Brian Kevin You know who else passed a lot of time outdoors in frigid conditions while enduring long periods of relative isolation? Polar explorers, that’s who. In non-COVID times, a visit to...
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3 Questions for the True Hero of Our Pandemic Winter: A Teacher
By Brian Kevin Sarah Schrader teaches first grade at Hope Elementary School, in the midcoast town of Hope, where, like many Maine teachers, she’s taken much of her curriculum outdoors, as studies show...
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4 Maine-Sourced Throws to Keep You Warm This Winter
Mexicali Blues Recycled Mexican Falsa BlanketSwans Island Rangeley ThrowL.L.Bean Waterproof Outdoor BlanketEvangeline Linen Cotton Pinstripe Throw Read more tips about COVID-friendly winter outdoor...
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Take Your Aerial Photography to the Next Level
Isaac Crabtree has been teaching science at Greenville High School for the past 12 years, and while he has always been interested in taking pictures, it wasn’t until he flew a drone for the first time...
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These Maine Dogs Are Heroes
Photograph courtesy of Amy Sherwood By Joel Crabtree Dolly Pawton BREED: Black LabAGE: 4HOMETOWN: NaplesOWNER: Amy Sherwood, who has medical conditions that can cause her blood pressure to plummet or...
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Our 10 Most-Read Stories of the Year
10. Could Cobscook Bay Be the Next Mount Desert Island? By Brian Kevin | Photographed by Chris Shane From our October issue: In Lubec, a media-shy multimillionaire has quietly invested $11 million in...
View ArticleWhere in Maine? Our Favorite Answer
Perkins Island Light Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from November’s photo. “This August, two friends and I planned a kayak...
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Ben’s Picks: 10 of the Best Maine Photos of 2020
It’s a lot to try and take stock of all that transpired in 2020, but here we are at the turn of the new year, making lists to make sense of things and remind ourselves of what we’d like to remember....
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The SoPo Cartographer Who Turns Maps Into Art
By Sarah Stebbins Photographed by Elle Darcy After graduating from college in 2001, Orono native Molly Brown loaded up her backpack and headed for some of the world’s most remote places: the central...
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The Maine-iest Cheese and Crackers
By Katy KelleherPhotographed by Derek Bissonnette For Karen Getz, it all started with buckwheat. She knew the ingredient from travels in Japan, where she snacked on soba noodles, which are made with...
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Coming Home
By Susan Hand Shetterly On a summer afternoon, I sat down about 100 feet from a pair of bald eagles standing in the low tide on a clump of ledge and seaweed and lifted my binoculars to watch them....
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Meet Maine’s 677 Spiders
By Joel CrabtreePhotographed by Michael D. Wilson Like many Maine basements, Daniel Jennings’s was full of spiders. But rather than hanging from rafters and hiding in corners, his spiders were neatly...
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6th Annual Down East Reader Photo Contest
We never fail to marvel at Down East readers’ ability to capture the Maine mystique. This year’s photo contest saw nearly 1,300 submissions in three categories: landscape, wildlife, and lifestyle. The...
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Free to Go
David Meerman Scott has long been a world traveler. He’s lived in Tokyo and Hong Kong. He’s visited 107 countries and all seven continents. As an author and marketing expert, the 59-year-old is...
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