Sealed with a Dog Kiss
What’s a pair of Maine pooches doing on a West African postage stamp?
March 2017
Our Favorite Letter
Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from March.
Bird Man
For almost 40 years, Steve Brettell has worked with monkish devotion in a tiny attic workshop, crafting countless exquisitely lifelike duck decoys.
Storm Gathering
The federal government later declared the March 11, 2005, storm a disaster — but we knew better.
From our Archives
March 1958
From “The Real Peculiar Railroad” by Charles Morrow Wilson, in our March 1958 issue.
Swig of the Month
If there’s a more versatile potable out there, we’d be mighty surprised.
Fire and Ice
For descendants of Maine’s 19th-century Finnish immigrants, the sauna ritual has lost none of its sanctity.
Winter Comfort
Cottage pie or shepherd’s pie is great winter comfort food, particularly if you’ve spent the day working outdoors and need respite from the elements. Try Annemarie Ahearn’s recipe.
The Stranger in the Woods
In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, Michael Finkel explains the origins of the whispered myth that haunted central Maine for decades.
Pressed Together
Can an Iraqi immigrant build community with a newspaper?
Reclaimed Timbre
The Mallett Brothers Band’s latest album gives new life to old backwoods ballads.
Boy Oh Boycott
Boycotts can have unintended consequences, and Maine’s history with them has been checkered. When we at Down East received a few impassioned messages warning us that we too were included in a “total boycott of all businesses linked to Maine in any way,” it prompted some reflection.
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