"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 2006
Mainers have traditionally suffered more on-the-job injuries than the national a, Rob Sneddon
Maine's new poet laureate, Betsy Sholl of Portland, teaches at the University of, Michaela Cavallaro
"Making It In Maine," piece on commercial photography in Portland, a niche some, Edgar Allen Beem
"My Maine" piece on the gentrification and condoization of Portland, with a tong, Agnes Bushnell
"My Maine" piece on why a national journalist would choose the strenuous and gra, Max Alexander
New York Supreme Court Justice Joe Crater, who summered in Belgrade Lakes, vanis, Andrew Vietze
"North by East" piece describing how gray squirrels are the third most-common ca
"North by East" piece looking at the matter-of-fact way people in Northern Maine
"North by East" piece noting that Maine is one of ten states that have an implie
"North by East" piece on a controversy about the city of Portland accepting a gi
"North by East" piece on a missing 700-lb. bronze bell that formerly hung in Win
"North by East" piece on a new expeditionary learning school in Portland, Casco
"North by East" piece on an exhibit of 238 silhouettes, all cut by Galen Jerome
"North by East" piece on an experimental catch-and-release salmon season from Se
"North by East" piece on an observation that high gas prices are not keeping tou
"North by East" piece on a survey taken of Route 1 traffic in midcoast Maine tha
"North by East" piece on a unique grocery delivery service for Matinicus Island,
"North by East" piece on Bill Kenny, vice president of Portland's Woodfords Club
"North by East" piece on Bruce Schwab, the first American to finish a solo, nons
"North by East" piece on Carroll Shores, owner of the last Waterville dairy farm
"North by East" piece on Chris Polson and Joe Calderwood, who make high quality
"North by East" piece on E.B. Campbell, the Millinocket auto mechanic responsibl
"North by East" piece on Glenn Hodgkins of the U.S. Geological Survey office in
"North by East" piece on Hadley Horch, assistant professor of biology and neuros
"North by East" piece on Harpswell's "Causeway Lady," Elsa Martz, who spearheade
"North by East" piece on how 61 percent of full-time students in the University
"North by East" piece on how Maine is one of just 19 states that requires regula
"North by East" piece on how Maine Public Radio is raising more money in less ti
"North by East" piece on how Maine's electric companies are phasing out meter re
"North by East" piece on how Maine springs are starting earlier and staying warm
"North by East" piece on how Maine Turnpike officials are seeking to win removal
"North by East" piece on how Maine was the first English common law jurisdiction
"North by East" piece on how Monhegan Island residents are trying to limit the b
"North by East" piece on how paper mills in Gardiner and Westbrook imported Egyp
"North by East" piece on how the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildli
"North by East" piece on Joe Cupo's nightly marine forecast on WCSH6, upon which
"North by East" piece on Lauren Coleman, retired University of Southern Maine pr
"North by East" piece on Monty the Moose, a small stuffed animal that has become
"North by East" piece on Portland author Amy Sutherland, who promoted her book,
"North by East" piece on radio coverage of traffic conditions in Maine that exte
"North by East" piece on Ralph and Lisa Turner of Laughing Stock Farm in Freepor
"North by East" piece on Ronnie Wilson, who wants a triangular section of Portla
"North by East" piece on Sherman Lake in Newcastle, which became a tidal stream
"North by East" piece on Simones Hot Dog Stand in Lewiston, a local gathering pl
"North by East" piece on the average days of fog in various Maine locations and
"North by East" piece on The Cat, a high-speed ferry that will offer weekend ser
"North by East" piece on the Department of Homeland Security's compromise measur
"North by East" piece on the "I Can't Hear You Now" campaign, inspired by Gov. J
"North by East" piece on the increasing destructiveness of illegal all-terrain (
"North by East" piece on the installation of an Internet Webcam that will allow