A community anchor and one of the highest-aiming restaurants north of Bangor, it’s well worth a visit the next time you’re in the County.
Winners in three categories are eligible for thousands of dollars in cash and prizes and publication in the magazine.
Thirty-two activities across four categories that will keep you bouncing around the state all summer.
We head downwind and east on a road trip through the new Downeast Maine National Heritage Area.
Located in South Berwick, the downtown space lets him flex and expand on everything he loves about his primo place.
A community anchor and one of the highest-aiming restaurants north of Bangor, it’s well worth a visit the next time you’re in the County.
Winners in three categories are eligible for thousands of dollars in cash and prizes and publication in the magazine.
Thirty-two activities across four categories that will keep you bouncing around the state all summer.
We head downwind and east on a road trip through the new Downeast Maine National Heritage Area.
Located in South Berwick, the downtown space lets him flex and expand on everything he loves about his primo place.
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Bird lovers Jeannette and Derek Lovitch installed acid-etched windows to prevent window strikes.
It's operated by another Maine publication that happens to be celebrating a big anniversary this year too.
A writer whose family had joined the Durham cult when he was a child penned a heart-rending account of the ill-fated expedition across the Atlantic.
The Pine Tree State is lucky to have some old-school places still dishing out floats, frappes, and sundaes.
Their treasures frequently rotate between their home and shop, Damariscotta's The Kingfisher & The Queen.
Mainers (not to mention the entire art world) had already come to know the immense talent of Andrew Wyeth, but they were only just making the acquaintance of Andrew’s 21-year-old son, Jamie, when frequent Down East contributor Marge Cook profiled the up-and-coming, preternaturally determined painter.
At the quarter-century-old honor-system pie stand, in Newry, trust is baked in.
At Shannon’s Unshelled, in Boothbay, customers can savor a lobster roll made with the state's love-it-or-hate-it soda.
Born on the blueberry barrens a quarter century ago, this establishment shows there’s more than one flavor of down east heritage.
Travel & Outdoors
Over the years, the roadside attraction has grown into a place to learn about blueberry-farming heritage.
You don’t need to spend big in order to enjoy a big adventure.
From glamping to grand inns to classic campgrounds, there’s lodging for every budget.
Home & Garden
Laura Boyett likes to shop specialty nurseries for rare varieties of familiar perennials.
For the last five years, painter Mercedes Foss has been riffing on her 1904 house’s quirky flourishes.
Her blooming backyard with a gabled cottage is straight out of a storybook.
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Arts & Leisure
A dystopian future wrought by secessionist Mainers. A family drama on a Penobscot reservation. A seaside home with a century’s worth of secrets.
Jeremy Frey is the subject of the first-ever major retrospective of a Wabanaki artist. Amid the hype, he’s still able to lose himself in the steady rhythm of weaving in his home studio, where he’s forever cognizant of tribal basketmakers’ challenging history and tenuous future.
The oceanfront campground’s owners understand that nature can spur creativity.
Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from June's photo.
Accessing it isn't as fiendishly difficult as its name might suggest.
Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from April’s photo.
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