Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from January’s photo.
We asked Alissa Wetherbee, a lifelong wood splitter and founder of the logging-sports troupe Axe Women Loggers of Maine, how to chop firewood effectively and safely.
Not every species performs identically in your woodstove.
Shuttered in 2019, the much-mourned Portland roller rink reopened last summer, just down the street from its former location.
Maine’s working waterfronts are a national treasure — and an economic lifeline to the rest of New England and the world.
Heather McCargo and the Wild Seed Project want us all to think differently about what we plant (and yeah, to think about it in the winter).
A good woodpile should offer protection from the elements, airflow, ease of retrieval, and no chance of toppling over.
But didn’t know who to ask! If you’re smitten with the romance of a well-made woodpile or a dancing flame, you have a few things to learn.
Five variations on the woodstove (and why some are better than others).
In honor of the humble earmuff’s sesquicentennial, we look at the evolution of winter gear in Maine.
An online exhibit at the Maine Historical Society Museum takes a closer look at pioneering photographer Chansonetta Stanley Emmons’s work.
Once a hushed secret, the state's dehumanizing treatment of Malaga's mixed-race community is finding its way into the culture through art, poetry, and literature. But can creative interpretations obscure the hard-won truth?