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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.
Trapani at Owls Head Light.
Arts & Leisure

Mr. Lighthouse

Bob Trapani Jr. carries the torch for Maine’s beloved-but-antiquated seaside beacons in the GPS era.
Boat full of fish
Arts & Leisure

What’s in a Picture

In 2009, after years of dam removals and fishway constructions, alewives swam through Benton en masse for the first time in two centuries.
Aly Spaltro, also known as Lady Lamb
Arts & Leisure

Lady Lamb the Mystery

Who is Aly Spaltro and what does she have to say?
women at work inspecting howitzer shells at the Portland Company, ca. 1917
History

The Portland Company

A hundred years ago this month, the U.S. entered World War I. As young men left Maine for the front, women took key industrial jobs.
Down East Magazine - Guide - Art
Arts & Leisure

Five Things to Know About the New Portland Museum of Art

Chief curator Jessica May chatted with us about what you need to know for your next visit.
Russ Dorr with a model skeleton
Arts & Leisure

The Bloody Business

How a physician’s assistant in Bridgton became Stephen King’s Hippocrates of horror.
old photo of a steamboat next to another sinking steamboat on Moosehead Lake
Arts & Leisure

What’s in a Picture?

In their heyday, dozens of steamboats plied Maine’s largest lake. Soon, though, the Great Depression and the age of the automobile took their tolls, and as steamboats grew obsolete, they were scuttled or simply allowed to sink at mooring.
Boys of Summer
Arts & Leisure

Boys of Summer

Author Alex George spins a rollicking coming-of-age tale on the Maine coast.
Mark O'Conner playing fiddle
Arts & Leisure

American Classic

After his bluegrass band’s Grammy win, Mark O’Connor lends his fiddle to the PSO Pops!.
Aqeel Mohialdeen, publisher of Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Maine's first Arabic-language newspaper
Arts & Leisure

Pressed Together

Can an Iraqi immigrant build community with a newspaper?
Students standing side by side
Arts & Leisure

Unlikely Impresarios

Two college kids create a full-blown musical ­— you know, in their spare time.
Travel & Outdoors

Après-Ski?

A non-profit community co-op’s current efforts to save the state’s third-largest ski resort look like an uphill battle.
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