From “The Real Peculiar Railroad” by Charles Morrow Wilson, in our March 1958 issue.
Richard Senter writes about the New Meadows ice race in Brunswick, in our March 1968 issue.
Some two miles from the mainland, with nothing between it and savage squalls, the old sentinel has been battered frequently. Civil War-era keepers, according to one account, were afraid for their lives during bad weather because the tower would sway nauseatingly.
Midcentury civic festivals in Aroostook County were (ahem) no small potatoes.
Autumn is a moment of heightened synchronicity, when all the natural world seems to hunker down for the onset of winter.
A black-and-white print by Stell and her husband, William Shevis, adorned this magazine’s first cover in August 1954, and the pair collaborated on dozens more Down East covers over the ensuing decades.
A classic Maine aesthetic meets efficient construction techniques and net-zero energy consumption in this gracious home, available as a building package from BrightBuilt Home.
Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from the September photo of the Oquossoc Angling Association on the Mooselookmeguntic lake.
Kennebunk’s Susan Knight swims her way into the record books in the English Channel.
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
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