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Will Grunewald is Down East's editor in chief and has been with the magazine since 2016, after previously working at Washingtonian. He lives in Brunswick with his wife, Heidi, and a spunky little dog named Wally.
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Food & Drink

Roughing It?

A decade ago, Jennifer Scism was running a Michelin-starred restaurant in New York. But along the way she married a Mainer, got tired of the grind, moved to York, and started backpacking.
Allagash White by Allagash Brewing Company
Food & Drink

How Allagash White Conquered the World

In 1995, Rob Tod started making a beer called Allagash White but his quintessentially Maine success story actually starts 30 years before, in a small Belgian village called Hoegaarden.
James Fallows
Our Towns

Eastport: Call It a Comeback?

Maine’s smallest city has been down but never out, author James Fallows says.
Original Maine State Flag
Arts & Leisure

Bring Back the Original State Flag!

We have three good reasons why.
Maine Public Radio’s Abukar Adan
Arts & Leisure

Crossover Artist

Maine Public Radio’s rookie reporter straddles the cultural (and political) divide.
Norway snowshoe races
Arts & Leisure

What’s in a Picture?

The town of Norway’s snowshoe biz caught on in the late 1800s, when craftsmen like Mellie Dunham and H.H. Hosmer set up small concerns.
Grand Reopening!
Food & Drink

Grand Reopening!

Three classic Maine eateries are back in business.
Music That Moves Me
Arts & Leisure

Another Spin

Maine Public Radio’s always-popular audio-diary series heads into a sixth season.
Matthew Secich at his charcuterie shop in Unity, Maine
Food & Drink

Chef Matthew Secich Traded Working In Upscale Kitchens for Maine’s Amish Community

These days, he’s making smoked meats and cheeses in Unity’s Amish community, which he, his wife, and kids joined a few years ago.
Maine-brewed Beer
Food & Drink

Funk Tradition

Three Maine breweries are doing what, a mere decade ago, conventional brewers’ wisdom said was impossible: making spontaneously fermented beer outside the climes of Belgium’s Senne River Valley.
How Now, Stephen King?
Arts & Leisure

How Now, Stephen King?

Can Shakespeare help us grasp the Maine author’s cultural sway?
John Hodgman in Surry, Maine.
Arts & Leisure

John Hodgman: Vacation Man

With his new memoir, Vacationland, the multi-hyphenate humorist is out to do more than just callously insult Maine’s beaches.
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