• Shop
    Shop
    Browse ourMaine-Made Gifts and More
  • Adventures
    Adventures
    Browse ourWorkshops and Trips
Subscribe Here
Down East Magazine, June 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
    • 2025 Best of Maine Poll
    • The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt
    • 10th Annual Reader Photo Contest Winners

Room With a View

Latest
  • Latest
  • Oldest
  • Random
  • A to Z
Scott Lermond wrestling with a fyke net at the mouth of the Goose River
Land, Water & Wildlife

Eeling and Dealing

How a voracious market for Maine elvers inspired one aquaculture entrepreneur to start an eel farm.
Land, Water & Wildlife

The Speed of Spring

A unique school project exemplifies what a devoted, creative teacher can bring to our lives.
Our Towns

Lessons on Community — And Its Fragility

For lack of one person in one critical role, a whole community can disintegrate.
Vinalhaven’s wind farm rises through the clouds. Ralston calls this image Prophets, a nod to “the vision it took on the part of the community to make this extraordinary project happen.”
Issues & Politics

Tilting at Windmills

Where and how we are going to get most of our power in a fossil-free future?
Berend de Kort | Pexels
Land, Water & Wildlife

In Dreams Begins Responsibility

In her final Room with a View column, Susan Hand Shetterly dreams of Cashes Ledge and what it can teach us.
humpback whale
Land, Water & Wildlife

The Whale’s Gifts

"I've seen people's joy at seeing whales, and I share it."
Land, Water & Wildlife

Circe’s Island

Like the Homeric enchantress, Betsy Wyeth created a magical new world on Allen and Benner islands.
Land, Water & Wildlife

In Winter’s Depths, Glimpses of Spring

“Robins are one of the supreme surprises of February, when nature’s rosy shades slowly return to our dawn and dusk skies.”
The steeple from Camden’s former Methodist church, built in 1893, rises up behind ship-mast crosses in the harbor in this photo that Ralston calls Faith, taken in 1989.
Land, Water & Wildlife

A Season for Faith and Ritual

You don’t have to be a druid to appreciate spiritual customs this time of year.
Ralston took this photo, titled Thorofare, in 1986, flying in a friend’s plane at dawn over the Fox Islands Thorofare, in Penobscot Bay. “I’ve been on virtually every island in this photograph,” he wrote in his book Sightings: A Maine Coast Odyssey.
Land, Water & Wildlife

Never Say No to an Island

"It turned out everything I had been taught about islands was, in Maine's case, wrong."
Labrador tea
Land, Water & Wildlife

A Walk on the Heath

"A heath is beautiful, if you accept the stillness it holds."
Maine island, photographed by Matt Barnard
Land, Water & Wildlife

Poor Joanna

Everyone carries within them the sense of an island, a part of them that is separate from the whole.
Load More

TRENDING ON DOWNEAST.COM

My Final Days on the Maine Coast

Longfellow Books, Portland, Maine

7 Independent Bookstores That Maine Authors Love

Doughnuts from the Cookie Jar Pastry Shop.

Doughnuts in Maine: From Inception to Perfection

Down East Magazine June 2026 Where in Maine? clue

Can You Name This Maine Waterway?

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
    • 2025 Best of Maine Poll
    • The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt
    • 10th Annual Reader Photo Contest Winners
  • 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, June 2025
Start typing to see results or hit ESC to close
Portland Camden Bangor Rockland Bar Harbor
See all results