Our 17th annual roundup of Maine’s best everything, from taprooms to bookshops, lobster rolls to toy stores. How did your favorites do?
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When vivid fall colors get splashed across the quintessential small-towns around Rangeley Lake, you’ll discover a priceless foliage experience.
Our curated fall collection features bags, hats, snacks, home decor, and more from Maine makers and artisans.
Fall road-trip recs, for whatever kind of leaf peeper you happen to be.
Autumn brings a pastoral luster to the coastal mountains of the midcoast.
The Latest
Barbara Damrosch hopes her guide to growing organic food, A Life in the Garden, plants a seed.
With a combined family history in lobstering and rope-manufacturing, Logan and Hannah Rackliff know the ropes.
The UMaine All-American soccer player on her home turf, Mahaney Diamond.
Its name may come from a nursery rhyme, but the food at this gastropub is anything but elementary.
You've likely gotten a glimpse of this lovely scene while traveling at 50-plus miles an hour across a short bridge.
Some 60 years ago, locals and visiting dignitaries teed up on a Georgetown mudflat.
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Travel & Outdoors
Newly friendly to cyclists, the Appalachian Mountain Club’s 330 miles of old logging roads are unpaved, with good intentions.
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.
Food & Drink
Coinciding with Maine Needham Day on the last Saturday in September, the event celebrates Maine's favorite potato candy.
The restaurant’s menu echoes the weekday breakfasts and Sunday brunches that its proprietors formerly ran at the first location of Terlingua.
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.
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Home & Garden
Come September, plants appear ready to bust free of their beds in landscaper James McCain’s garden.
Having built the garden of their dreams, they now sell their steel frames and offer gardening advice online.
Bird lovers Jeannette and Derek Lovitch installed acid-etched windows to prevent window strikes.
Arts & Leisure
In a century of concert seasons, this year's lineup is one of many high notes.
He was a respected painter who hosted scores of famous artists at his Winter Harbor home and appeared in their work. But he never really got his due.
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.
Photography
The Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter recalls the thrill of clinging to an inner tube behind her parents' speedboat on Sebago Lake.
Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from July's photo.
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