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Maine corn mazes
Travel & Outdoors

Get Lost in Maine’s Best Corn Mazes

After popping it and slathering it with butter, aimlessly wandering through it is our third favorite thing to do with corn. Check out a few of our favorite fall mazes.
Food & Drink

Find a Lobster Roll Near Bar Harbor

The ultimate list of places that serve lobster rolls in Maine! Here are five choices near Bar Harbor.
Where In Maine?
Where in Maine?

Where In Maine?

Can you name this camp and the lake it’s on?
Food & Drink

Find a Lobster Roll Near Ogunquit

The ultimate list of places that serve lobster rolls in Maine! Here are five "Editors' Picks" for lobster rolls near Ogunquit.
Penobscot River with the Katadin Woods and Waters National Monument
Travel & Outdoors

Welcome to Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument

What you need to know about the 87,500-acre protected area abutting the eastern edge of Baxter State Park.
Stell Shevis
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In Memoriam: Stell Shevis

A black-and-white print by Stell and her husband, William Shevis, adorned this magazine’s first cover in August 1954, and the pair collaborated on dozens more Down East covers over the ensuing decades.
Susan Knight
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Channel Champ

Kennebunk’s Susan Knight swims her way into the record books in the English Channel.
Maine Fall
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Fall Foliage

Autumn is a moment of heightened synchronicity, when all the natural world seems to hunker down for the onset of winter.
Maine
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Down East Dispatches

Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
Archives
Travel & Outdoors

From Our Archives: September 1986

From “A Return to Golden Pond,” a photo essay by Benjamin Magro, in our September 1986 issue.
Wiggly Bridge
Travel & Outdoors

Our Favorite Letter

Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from the July photo of Wiggly Bridge in York Harbor.
Acadia Poster
Arts & Leisure

Acadia Favorites: Poster Art

Legions of contemporary printmakers draw inspiration from the retro vibe of the 1930s Works Progress Administration posters promoting national parks and public lands.
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