The finest offerings in the 11 primary food groups of Maine budget dining.
Presenting Maine’s Best Arts & Media selections, including Readers' Choice winners!
We’ve been arguing for months. And eating. And shopping. And road-tripping. And at last, all that hard work has paid off. Presenting Maine’s best Travel and Play, from camping to cruising to hitting the links.
We sent our man on a quixotic quest for glory at four classic Maine summer festivals.
Last March, Edgecomb teacher Nancie Atwell won a million dollars for banning tests and letting students pick their own reading material. Then she gave it all away.
Cold air flowing over a warmer sea gives rise to Maine’s rarest — and most beautiful — type of fog.
Restaurants, diners, lobster shacks, food trucks, beer. Presenting Maine’s Best Food & Drink selections, including Readers' Choice winners!
Presenting Maine’s best Shopping & Self selections, including Readers' Choice winners!
The Allagash Wilderness Waterway is one of the country’s more remarkable experiments in wilderness preservation — and one of its classic river trips. Today, with the number of paddlers at a 30-year-low, a trip along the Allagash is as quiet and sublime as ever.
Farming isn’t making a comeback on Whitefield’s Townhouse Road. It never went away.
A brutal winter tests an icebound scientist’s survival skills — and her capacity for solitude.
From true crime to profile to reporting on challenging issues, Down East's editors pick our five favorite feature stories from 2015.