Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from August's photo.
A writer whose family had joined the Durham cult when he was a child penned a heart-rending account of the ill-fated expedition across the Atlantic.
The Pine Tree State is lucky to have some old-school places still dishing out floats, frappes, and sundaes.
Mainers (not to mention the entire art world) had already come to know the immense talent of Andrew Wyeth, but they were only just making the acquaintance of Andrew’s 21-year-old son, Jamie, when frequent Down East contributor Marge Cook profiled the up-and-coming, preternaturally determined painter.
Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from June's photo.
Accessing it isn't as fiendishly difficult as its name might suggest.
Oscar Farwell was right — his will did surprise the daylights out of all the folks who knew him.
A community anchor and one of the highest-aiming restaurants north of Bangor, it’s well worth a visit the next time you’re in the County.
Their treasures frequently rotate between their home and shop, Damariscotta's The Kingfisher & The Queen.
At the quarter-century-old honor-system pie stand, in Newry, trust is baked in.
At Shannon’s Unshelled, in Boothbay, customers can savor a lobster roll made with the state's love-it-or-hate-it soda.
A dystopian future wrought by secessionist Mainers. A family drama on a Penobscot reservation. A seaside home with a century’s worth of secrets.