• Shop
    Shop
    Browse ourMaine-Made Gifts and More
  • Adventures
    Adventures
    Browse ourWorkshops and Trips
Subscribe Here
Down East Magazine, September 2025
  • Travel & Outdoors
    • Our Towns
    • Land, Water & Wildlife
    • Down East Adventures
    • Browse Travel & Outdoors
  • Food & Drink
    • Restaurant Reviews
    • Recipes
    • Browse Food & Drink
  • Home & Garden
    • Maine-Made
    • Nominate Your Maine Home
    • Browse Home + Garden
  • Culture & History
    • Arts & Leisure
    • History
    • Issues & Politics
    • Maine Events
  • Magazine
    • Current & Back Issues
    • Subscribe
    • Gift a Subscription
    • Manage Subscription
    • Down East Merch
    • Sign up for Down East‘s Newsletters
  • Contests
    • Down EastReader Photo Contest
    • The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt
Will Grunewald
Joined04.29.16
Articles282
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.
whale tail illustration from "Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man," by Robert McCloskey
Arts & Leisure

A Maine Library Sketches Out the Career of Children’s-Book Virtuoso Robert McCloskey

The exhibition is a rare chance to examine the loose, lively feel of McCloskey's lines up close.
Katahdin, as seen from Abol Bridge
History

How the Abol Bridge Opened Up the North Woods to a New Kind of Economy

Lots of history has flowed along the West Branch of the Penobscot River.
Margherita, salami, asparagus, and cherry-tomato pizzas from Il Leone
Food & Drink

It’s a Peaks Island Pizza Party All Summer Long at Il Leone

The alfresco oven turns out bubbly Neapolitan-style pies loaded up with Maine toppings.
biking on Chebeague
Travel & Outdoors

A Perfect Weekend on Chebeague

Cruise around the quiet island roads, explore an abandoned summer colony, take in the many ocean vistas, and more.
Dories lined up at Fish Beach on Monhegan Island
Travel & Outdoors

A Perfect Weekend on Monhegan

Hike 12 miles of island trails, visit the island’s many studios and art galleries, view a 75-year-old shipwreck, and more.
two scoops with rainbow sprinkles on a cone from Gifford's ice cream
Food & Drink

After a Factory Fire, Gifford’s Ice Cream Avoids a Meltdown

A fire shut down its Skowhegan plant this winter, but the Maine ice cream brand is still scooping.
canned cocktails from Three of Strong Spirits, Maine Craft Distilling, and Mast Landing Brewing Co.
Food & Drink

3 Maine-Made Canned Cocktails for Your Next BYOB Gathering

Maine distillers and brewers are starting to mix it up with ready-to-drink cocktails.
Memorial Bridge between Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Kittery, Maine
History

Memorial Bridge Marks 100 Years Spanning the Piscataqua River

A century ago, Maine got a little cozier with its only U.S. neighbor.
At a circa 1960 festival, King Neptune poses with the Sea Goddess. Photo courtesy of the Maine Lobster Festival
Arts & Leisure

Rockland’s Maine Lobster Festival Says Goodbye to Its Sea Goddess

Instead, the long-running fest will crown a Maine Lobster Festival Delegate.
Food & Drink

5 of Our Favorite Classic Maine Diners

Most of Maine’s many diners feel almost inherently timeless. These five, though, are top of the class.
Hamilton Easter Field, the libertine (left), and Charles Woodbury, the traditionalist (right).
History

How a Pair of Rivals Birthed Maine’s Archetypal Art Colony

Charles Herbert Woodbury and Hamilton Easter Field made Ogunquit a destination for aspiring artists but also began a feud.
Food & Drink

Sam Hayward Came to Appledore Island a Bassist. He Left a Chef.

Cooking for hungry students and researchers in the ’70s, he learned to love seafood that other chefs ignored. Then, he kick-started a culinary revolution.
Load More

TRENDING ON DOWNEAST.COM

September 2025 Where in Maine? photo clue

Can You Name This Scenic Maine Preserve?

Doughnuts from the Cookie Jar Pastry Shop.

Doughnuts in Maine: From Inception to Perfection

whoopie pies on colorful plates

Celebrating 100 Years of Maine’s Beloved Whoopie Pie

2025 Down East Scavenger Hunt

The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt

My Final Days on the Maine Coast

About Us

  • Contact Down East
  • About Down East
  • Jobs
  • Submissions
  • Nominate Your Maine Home
  • Sponsor Guidelines
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use

Customer Care

  • Subscribe Now
  • Give a Gift
  • Manage Subscription
  • Single Issues
  • Newsletters
  • Reprints & Plaques

More

  • Advertise with Us
  • Carry Down East in Your Shop
  • Down East Adventures
  • Down East Brand Studio
  • Down East Shop
  • Maine Events Calendar
  • Maine Retirement Directory
  • 207 Tix

Sign up for our extra Newsletter

Follow us

Copyright 2025 © Down East magazine

  • Travel & Outdoors
    • Our Towns
    • Land, Water & Wildlife
    • Down East Adventures
    • Browse Travel & Outdoors
  • Food & Drink
    • Restaurant Reviews
    • Recipes
    • Browse Food & Drink
  • Home & Garden
    • Maine-Made
    • Nominate Your Maine Home
    • Browse Home + Garden
  • Culture & History
    • Arts & Leisure
    • History
    • Issues & Politics
    • Maine Events
  • Magazine
    • Current & Back Issues
    • Subscribe
    • Gift a Subscription
    • Manage Subscription
    • Down East Merch
    • Sign up for Down East‘s Newsletters
  • Contests
    • Down EastReader Photo Contest
    • The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt
  • Advertise with Us
  • Manage my Subscription
  • Plaques & Reprints

Our Other Brands:

  • Down East Shop
  • Down East Adventures

Don’t Miss an Issue

Subscribe Here
Down East Magazine, September 2025
Start typing to see results or hit ESC to close
Portland Camden Bangor Rockland Brunswick
See all results