Virginia M. Wright, Author at Down East Magazine

Jeremy Frey in his studio, in Eddington. This year, his baskets are traveling to exhibitions from Portland to New York to Paris.

The Modern Master of Wabanaki Basketry

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.

Molly Ahrens in her tulip-filled yard in Belfast, Maine

Home + Garden

This Belfast Gardener’s Tulip-Filled Yard Is One of the Brightest Spots Around

Molly Ahrens’s property dazzles with Monet-like dabs of color from more than 1,000 tulips.

Belfast carpenter Dan Greeley’s 2021 conversion of a three-season porch into a year-round sunroom adjoining the living room launched the home’s cozy, streamlined design

Home + Garden

Wood Finishes (and a Wood-Fired Sauna) Warm a Lincolnville Retreat

The interior is inspired by California’s famed Sea Ranch modernist enclave.

exhibition cases a the Nylander Museum of Natural History

Arts & Leisure

This Natural-History Museum Digs into Maine’s Prehistoric Past

Caribou's newly reopened Nylander Museum of Natural History is home to 50,000 minerals, prehistoric fossils, and mollusk shells.

Waynflete’s Joan Sayward Franklin ’46 Theater

Our Towns

Clarisse Karasira’s Favorite Maine Place

The Rwandan-American singer on Waynflete’s Joan Sayward Franklin ’46 Theater.

The Blaine House, in Augusta, Maine, decked out for the holidays

Home + Garden

In Maine, the Governor’s Yuletide Fir Is Put to a Referendum

For the third year in a row, Governor Mills will decorate the Blaine House with a tree grown by the winner of the Fryeburg Fair’s People’s Choice Christmas Tree competition.