The Long Haul
John Olson, a World War II veteran and Maine-art-lore inheritor, spent more than nine decades on the water.
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
Maine Dispatches March 2019
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
Pat Gallant-Charette
Frigid waters, jellyfish hordes, riptides, and things that go bump in the night — nothing has stopped sexagenarian Westbrook aqua-woman Pat Gallant-Charette on her quest to beat marathon swimming's globe-spanning challenge.
George H. W. Bush and family
In 2015, Down East conducted the following written interview with then 91-year-old George H. W. Bush, discussing the former president’s love of Maine and the role that the family’s Kennebunkport home at Walker’s Point has played in the Bushes’ public and private lives. The interview never ran in the magazine. We present it here, alongside photographs of the Bushes at Walker’s Point, courtesy of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.
Camp Ellis
In summer, Camp Ellis moves at its own carefree pace. But beneath the sultry calm, the beach enclave is waging a desperate battle with rising seas.
Richmond, Maine
Off the beaten path, Richmond’s old-fashioned downtown is way ahead of the "shop local" trend.