"The goal of Down East has always been to hold a mirror up to Maine — its storied past and lively present — and to celebrate its flinty, independent character and unhurried way of life. As Maine has changed with the times, however, so has Down East. Today the state has come to embrace its future as well as its past. Accordingly, the magazine now focuses more on contemporary Maine life and what the future might bring and less on historical background and quaint rusticity. Booming circulation and advertising gains demonstrate the wisdom of this editorial shift."
Portland Public Library's collection of Down East is complete, and begins with the first issue, August 1954. The hard copies are available in the Portland Room.
Submissions from 1995
Article on Fitch's General Store in East Sebago, which may be the last old-style, Jeff Clark
Article on Louesa Gillespie's oriental shade garden at "Mayfair," along the Shor, Jane Lamb
Article on the beauty of native, uncultivated flora, mentioning black-eyed Susan, Richard Grant
Article on the conversion of the 1874 Methodist church in Rockport into the mult, Sarah Goodyear
Article on the Crobb Box Company, founded on Mount Desert Island on October 22,, Letitia Baldwin
Article on the difficulties of raising both children and plants in the same yard, Richard Grant
Article on the midcoast town of Friendship, located at the tip of a peninsula so, Joseph Brown
Article on the perfect lobster roll, describing the requisite criteria, and ment, D B. Eberhart
Article on the Scarborough Marsh, which comprises 3,100 acres of grasslands, wat, Jeff Clark and Paul Karr
Article on the Schoodic peninsula, the only mainland section of Acadia National, Joseph E. Brown
Article on Waldoboro, noting that the town along the Medomak River has not chang, Jeff Clark
As an Augusta high school student, Bill Kieltyka started dabbling in stereo spea
Author Richard Grant writes about the beauty to be found by looking down, rather, Richard Grant
Because winter isn't exactly the Maine construction season, Atlantic Builders in
Book review of "Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, Richard Grant
Both Pemaquid and Biddeford predate the Plymouth colony for European settlements
Brief article about Bath's Church of the New Jerusalem, which was constructed in
Brief article about famous tower clock in Portland's historic First Parish Chu
Brief article listing the natural wonders in and around Grafton Notch State Park
Brief article with detailed list of boat cruises, expeditions, and rentals avail
Brief description of Little Deer Isle, a small summer island just north of bustl, Andrew Vietze
Brief description of the Maine Coast Railroad, which offers riders a glimpse of
Brief description of the Precipice Trail, a challenging hiking trail on the east
Brief description, with photographs, of a technique called photo-identification,
Brief essay about Victorian Holiday Portland, where nearly all major cultural or
Brief history of Portland's Eastland Hotel, from its founding in 1926, which was, Ellen MacDonald Ward
Built in 1754 to withstand Indian attack, Fort Western in Augusta is the oldest, Ellen MacDonald Ward
By 1998, the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland will be the home of the Maine Wyeth C
Camden experieced great change in 1954 as an influx of tourists, retirees, and a, James P. Brown
Camden's Bayview Street Cinema is one of the state's few theaters to specialize
Cartoon mocking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's scattershot approach
C. A. Stevens tells of having gone to Portland in December, 1863, with three ot, C A. Stephens
Connecticut banker Thomas Wilcox has taken the executive director's position at
Description of an art show and a new book, both of which examine the art produce
Despite 2,265 reports since 1938, the state of Maine has not confirmed one mount
Detailed article on the Maine Island Trail Association (MITA), established in 19, Jeff Clark
Detailed book review of "The Artist's Mount Desert: American Painters on the Mai, Stephen May
Detailed profile of the town of Liberty, population 700. Off the main tourist r, Joseph E. Brown
"Down East Bookshelf" piece on "Allagash: Maine's Wild and Scenic River," by Dea, Andrew K. Weegar
"Down East Bookshelf" piece reviewing "Country Living, Country Dying: A Maine En, Agnes Bushell
"Down East Bookshelf" piece reviewing "Drinking the Rain," a memoir by novelist, Agnes Bushnell
"Down East Bookshelf" piece reviewing "Ducktrap Chronicles of a Maine Village,", Elizabeth Hand
"Down East Bookshelf" piece reviewing "New England Cook," published by Courage B, Victoria Doudera
"Down East Bookshelf" piece reviewing "The Maine Atlas and Gazetteer," published, Edgar Allen Beem
"Down East Bookshelf" piece reviewing the recently reissued "Arundel," written b, Sarah Goodyear
"Down East Bookshelf" piece reviewing the "Sarah Orne Jewett: Her World and Her, Elizabeth Hand
Editorial calling on Governor Angus King to continue his focus on export markets
Editorial praising lower-cost assisted living alternatives to nursing homes, but
Editorial praising Saco mayor Mark Johnston for his straight talk about Camp Ell
Editorial praising the decision to renovate Biddeford's 1914-era downtown Distri