Down East magazine, has been publishing since August 1954, and continues as one of Maine's most prominent monthly magazines. Their web site's history page provides the following description:

"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.

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Submissions from 1995

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

Essay on mushing across frozen Lake Umbagog by dogsled. The Mahoosuc Guide Serv, Sarah Scott

Every week for the last 25 years, the Burnham Auction has drawn bargain hunters,, Jeff Clark

For the sixth time in the last seven outings, Central Aroostook High School in M