"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
"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
Portland's Gothic House was built by Scottish-born architect Henry Rowe in 1845,, Ellen MacDonald Ward
Profile of Cindy Blodgett, 19, a University of Maine sophomore, who has lit a bo, Mark Condon
Profile of Cy Hamlin, the seventy-seven-year-old dean of naval architects in Mai, James P. Brown
Profile of Dutch author Janwillem van de Wetering, who now lives in Surry, Maine, Carl Little
Profile of Gabe and Marcia Williamson, rangers for the past four seasons at Daic, Andrew Vietze
Profile of House One, an enterprise of partners Carol Wilson and Susan Ruch. Wi
Profile of pioneering botanist Kate Furbish, who, in the 1870s, undertook to doc, Ellen MacDonald Ward
Profile of Reverend Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill (1768-1847), a scholar, artist,, Joseph E. Brown
Profile of the Big Chicken Barn in Ellsworth, the used-book mecca of Down East M, Jeff Clark
Profile of the South Bristol seaside cottage of Charles and Pat Conant, designed, Ellen MacDonald Ward
Profile of the town of Buxton, which is only 15 minutes from the Maine Mall in S, Jeff Clark
Profile of West Port Antiques on Milk Street in Portland's Old Port, owned by Ma, Sarah Goodyear
Ray Bucklin Owen, commissioner of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and W, Jane Lamb
Reminiscent essay on operating the Tarry-A-While Hotel on Highland Lake outside, Barbara Love Jenni
Reprint of an excerpt that appeared in "Norman Rockwell, Illustrator," by Arthur, Arthur L. Guptill
Researchers have estimated that 10,000 sturgeon live in the Kennebec River alone
Responding to a nationwide campaign launched by the Des Moines Register, South P