"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
"Making It In Maine" piece profiling three of the state's small businesses: Boda, Mark Condon
Maybe because blackflies dominate the state every May, Maine has been the site f, Jeff Clark
"North by East" about Ed Flanagan, president of Jasper Wyman and Son, the state'
"North by East" piece about 80-year-old Francis Fenton, of Mercer, who was so co
"North by East" piece about a dozen students in the third through the sixth grad
"North by East" piece about Albert Mahar, 84, the postmaster of Dennysville, who
"North by East" piece about Donna McLellan, who has been postmistress at Alna f
"North by East" piece about Harriet B. Shaw, of Alfred, who historian and stamp
"North by East" piece about Jim Andrews of Arundel, who has a long history of sa
"North by East" piece about physics professor Paul Camp of the University of Mai
"North by East" piece about Rod Mitchell, who built his multimillion-dollar Port
"North by East" piece about the Peaks Island and its out-of-control deer populat
"North by East" piece about the rebirth of the cranberry industry in Maine. In
"North by East" piece International Paper's (IP) development of a recyclable, bi
"North by East" piece in which Jay Epsy, president of the Brunswick-based Maine
"North by East" piece noting the death of Helen Nearing, wife of the late Scott
"North by East" piece on an a marine archaeology expedition early this summer le
"North by East" piece on a proposal to add ferry service between Bar Harbor and
"North by East" piece on David Spicer of the Maine Forest Service, who is updati
"North by East" piece on Flo's Steamed Dogs, a tiny take-out stand on Route 1 in
"North by East" piece on Harpswell fisherman Robert Anderson, who built a floati
"North by East" piece on the Bartol Library in Freeport, a small library on Main
"North by East" piece on the Cherryfield Band, a community band thrown together
"North by East" piece on the Cosmic Hippo, the first coffeehouse in Maine to off
"North by East" piece on the Maine Highland Games, scheduled for August 19 at Th
"North by East" piece on the Maine State Library's books-by-mail summer reading
"North by East" piece on the November referendum to decide whether the state sho
"North by East" piece on the recent approval by Greenville residents of construc
"North by East" piece on the Wiscasset, Waterville, and Farmington Railway Museu
"North by East" piece on Thomas Dudley Cabot, who died this past June at the age
"North by East" piece reporting on the success of an annual rodeo in Farmington,
"North by East" piece reporting that according to the Maine Rural Water Associat
"North by East" piece reporting that a new law regulating lobstering will soon t
"North by East" piece reporting that at a time when towns such as Portland, Bidd
"North by East" piece reporting that Maine Beverage Container Service of Portlan
"North by East" piece with a brief profile of Margaret Chase Smith, who died May
"North by East" reporting that Norm Dodge, the chief ranger at Bar Harbor's Acad
"North by North East" piece briefly reporting that Atlantic Aquafarms, of Frankl
Old-time aviator Ernest Randall, pleased that a Washburn librarian recognized hi
On the first Sunday of each month, Bucksport restauranteur George MacLeod turns
"On the Waterfront" piece about Wendell Seavey's new twenty-foot lobsterboat, ", James P. Brown
"On the Waterfront" piece correcting some information included in the June colum, James P. Brown
Overfishing and dam construction have threatened Souadabscook Stream alewives fo
Over the last 25 years, Bessie Clark has conserved over 33,000 acres of wilderne, Jeff Clark
Paul and Emma Bennett, one of Maine's oldest and most loyal cruising couples, ha
Photoessay of Sewall Beach, on the Phippsburg peninsula, in winter., Thomas Mark Szelog
Photograph of a dozen farmers and their teams of oxen moving a house in Waldobor, Ellen MacDonald Ward
Photographs of Ogunquit Beach at sunrise, with a brief description.
Photojournalist Jim Moore captured the people and character of Glen Cove.
Portland businessman Frank Akers has called for Maine to abandon Eastern Standar