• Shop
    Shop
    Browse ourMaine-Made Gifts and More
  • Adventures
    Adventures
    Browse ourWorkshops and Trips
Subscribe Here
Down East magazine, August 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

Features

Latest
  • Latest
  • Oldest
  • Random
  • A to Z
Where in Maine, February 2021
Photography

Can You Name This Landmark Home and the Historic District to Which It Belongs?

Today, it is a well-preserved site full of original artifacts and a frequent field-trip destination for schoolkids.
Our Towns

Is Saddleback’s Future Finally Bright?

One of New England skidom’s undisputed greats, Saddleback is back, with a fresh drop of investment — and some lofty ideas.
Down East's 6th Annual Reader Photo Contest
Features

6th Annual Down East Reader Photo Contest

This year’s contest saw nearly 1,300 submissions in three categories: landscape, wildlife, and lifestyle. And even in year six of the competition, we can’t stop marveling at our readers’ ability to capture the Maine mystique.
Molly Brown, cartographer at Molly Maps
Maine-Made

The SoPo Cartographer Who Turns Maps Into Art

Molly Brown’s graphic paintings navigate the personal and the big picture.
Features

Our 10 Most-Read Stories of the Year

From a profile of the Maine farmer saving the world’s rarest seeds to a small-town sports saga for the ages to the strange tale of the COVID cruise ship marooned Down East, these are our most-read stories of 2020.
Oxbow Beer Garden5
Food & Drink

We Can Still Hang Out Outside!

It’s still a lousy idea to gather indoors. But don’t let that stop you from socializing, dining, and celebrating (safely!) with family and friends.
Greenville’s Big Squaw Mountain in 1973
Our Towns

The State of Maine’s Small Ski Hills

Mom-and-pop mountains have hit plenty of bumps. Will they get a lift from the pandemic this winter?
Maine-Made

Shop Spotlight: 163 Design Company

163 Design Company specializes in woodworking — its bestselling products include keychains, magnet sets, and “desktop adventures” sets.
Spider Man
Land, Water & Wildlife

Meet Maine’s 677 Spiders

It took Daniel Jenning several decades and 71,000 specimens to identify them.
Photography

Ben’s Picks: 10 of the Best Maine Photos of 2020

Down East staff photographer Benjamin Williamson's favorite shots of the year.
Admiral Robert E. Peary
History

What Would Peary Do?

What Maine's polar explorers have to teach us about schmoozing outside during a pandemic winter.
Where in Maine
Photography

Can You Name This Institution and the Town Where It’s Found?

A sign outside bears a Penobscot word describing the building’s purpose.
Load More

TRENDING ON DOWNEAST.COM

Doughnuts from the Cookie Jar Pastry Shop.

Doughnuts in Maine: From Inception to Perfection

My Final Days on the Maine Coast

whoopie pies on colorful plates

Celebrating 100 Years of Maine’s Beloved Whoopie Pie

Longfellow Books, Portland, Maine

7 Independent Bookstores That Maine Authors Love

2025 Down East Scavenger Hunt

The Great Maine Scavenger Hunt

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, August 2025
Start typing to see results or hit ESC to close
Portland Camden Bangor Rockland Brunswick
See all results