Maine’s southern coast offers the American summer vacation at its beach-blanket best. Grab a towel and come with us.
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A half century ago, the futurist was tinkering with a wind machine, writing love poems, and literally dancing to his own beat.
Explore and photograph Maine with Down East Adventures.
Well into his 80s, Scott Nearing was still living the good life on his farm.
Birds love it, and so do researchers, paddlers, bikers, and hikers.
Twenty-eight excursions all across the state, from classical concerts to mountain sunrises to roadside doughnuts, that add up to one fun-filled Maine summer.
For more than three decades, Jerry Elwell took vulnerable wild creatures, including a kamikaze crow, a preemie duck with an identity crisis, and a goose that required mouth-to-beak resuscitation, under her wing.
On the centennial of Maine’s original summer colony, Down East asked Edith Wheeler, the 93-year-old granddaughter of the Squirrel Island Association’s first president, to pen a recollection of the little colony’s early days.
How eight intrepid homeowners live off-grid in Maine, photographer Lynn Karlin's lush still lifes, Maine collectors and their treasures, and more.