Best of Maine 2016: Arts & Media
Presenting Maine’s Best Arts & Media selections, including Readers’ Choice winners!
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Best of Maine 2016
Shopping & Self
Presenting Maine’s best Shopping & Self selections, including Readers’ Choice winners!
Best of Maine 2016
Travel & Play
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.
Into the Wild(ish)
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.
He Is Not the Champion, My Friend
We sent our man on a quixotic quest for glory at four classic Maine summer festivals.
Country Way
Farming isn’t making a comeback on Whitefield’s Townhouse Road. It never went away.
“World’s Greatest Teacher”
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.
Best Places to Live in Maine
Read on to explore the sixteen idyllic burgs that made it into this year’s tournament — and discover the quintessential Maine mountain town that came out on top!
Stranded
A brutal winter tests an icebound scientist’s survival skills — and her capacity for solitude.
Smoke on the Water
Cold air flowing over a warmer sea gives rise to Maine’s rarest — and most beautiful — type of fog. By Kim Ridley ’ve…
Our Favorite Longform Stories of 2015
From true crime to profile to reporting on challenging issues, Down East‘s editors pick our five favorite feature stories from 2015.
My Intractable, Gun-Loving,
Anti-Government, Right-Wing Cousin
(Who I Like a Lot)
A treatise (with gunplay) on “the two Maines,” peace on Earth, and good will towards Ben.