Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from the November photo of Deering Oaks park in Portland.
We’re not asking you to dine out at every amazing restaurant in Maine. Just these 20. Plus one entire town. Hope you’re hungry.
A Saco woodshop builds iconic Maine furniture — and better lives for employees with disabilities.
A couple preserves a family tradition with a new house that bests the original while retaining its warmth and charm.
Building a company’s brand around its Maine identity isn’t as straightforward as it might seem.
Billed as a “foot sanctuary and tea house,” Soakology offers packages that pair therapeutic treatments with just the right leaves.
Hundreds of military planes crashed in Maine during World War II, including 48 that resulted in fatalities. Wreckage is still scattered in the North Woods, on mountain slopes and lake bottoms, and off the coast. Aviation archaeologist Peter Noddin is on a mission to document the site of each crash — and to honor those who died.
For 21 years, LJ Hopkins had hauled mail and essential supplies to Swan's Island. What caused him to stop?
An unconventional sculptor (and a marine biology student) on bridging the art-and-science divide.
We asked our contributors to throw skepticism out the window and float a few moonshot proposals that’d impact Maine for the better.
From the essay “Aroostook Yesterdays,” by Anne Hannan, in our November 1956 issue.
A longtime sportsman faces down illness — and heads out into the field one last time.