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.
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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.
Diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, a writer meditates on life, death, and beauty from his small seaside cottage down east.
Who says this is the off-season?
Food fests, concerts, snow sports, and more are going on across Maine all through the colder months.
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.
A boulder at the mountain's summit is inscribed with the Latin phrase non sibi sed omnibus: “not for one, but for all.”
Explore and photograph Maine with Down East Adventures.
Maine’s long, sweet love affair with the doughnut, the remarkable photo archives of National Fisherman magazine, concerns about the state's shrinking sugaring season, and more.
Notable Maine writers on their favorite bookstores, Baxter State Park in winter, and more.
From grand views to intimate portraits, remarkable scenes of life lived in Maine.