Where the Maine Loon Calls
After decades in free fall, how Maine’s loon population took off.
Features
Learn the Fern
What does a veteran forager know about Maine’s iconic fiddleheads that you don’t? Curl up with Michael Burke’s tale of a tagalong day in the field.
Once More to the City
To paraphrase Thomas Wolfe, you can’t go to the Old Port again. Or can you? Author Suzanne Strempek Shea revisits the Portland she once knew.
Deep Space
In his new book, Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine, the acclaimed essayist, novelist, and physicist Alan Lightman explores the relationships between science and religion, knowledge and transcendence — all from a quiet, wooded rock in Casco Bay.
How We Live in Maine
For every one of us living the good life in Vacationland, there’s somebody somewhere merely dreaming about it. For our special primer on making a Maine dream a Maine reality, we asked a few of our favorite writers for the skinny on how they do it.
Orgone But Not Forgotten
Dr. Wilhelm Reich’s modern-day admirers have sunk more than quarter-million dollars into a documentary to redeem his name. Is Dr. Reich’s long, strange story about to climax?
Frozen Vacationland
Nowhere is the sense of suspended time more pronounced than a Maine summer place in the heart of winter.
One XC-llent Winter
Maine is a cross-country skier’s Shangri-La, and this list of our 10 favorite Nordic destinations proves it.
The Down East Stories You Loved Most This Year
From meditations on art, community, and gentrification to profiles of lawmen and woodswomen, our most read stories of 2017.
Stayin’ Alive
At Bubba’s Sulky Lounge, est. 1961, kitsch is king, retro is respected, and celebration is sacred. Arielle Greenberg pays tribute to Maine’s wildest, most beloved dive.
All Aglow
In this darkest month of the year, we offer a visual tribute to all things luminous.
2018 Down East Reader Photo Contest
For the third year, we asked you to send us the photos that exemplify your personal vision of the Pine Tree State — and the volume of your response continues to wow us.