"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 2005
"Inside Maine" piece on the Portland Museum of Art's Sunday jazz breakfasts., Andrew Vietze
"Inside Maine" piece on the Portland Public Library's helpful Maine News Index,, Andrew Vietze
"Inside Maine" piece on the Seashore Trolley Museum in Wells, which offers troll, Andrew Vietze
"Inside Maine" piece on the Sierra Club, which is hosting a work week on Monhega, Andrew Vietze
"Inside Maine" piece on the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibit "Barn Ag, Andrew Vietze
"Inside Maine" piece on the Tate House, the only pre-Revolutionary home in Great, Andrew Vietze
"Inside Maine" piece on the Web sites of Maine's two largest airports, Bangor In, Andrew Vietze
"Inside Maine" piece on two waterfalls in the Portland area that have been made, Andrew Vietze
"Inside Maine" piece on Waldoboro-based Borealis Breads, a bakery that also make, Andrew Vietze
"Inside Maine" piece on www.vintagemaineimages.com, a service of the Maine Histo, Andrew Vietze
"Inside Portland" piece on Claude Guyot, a native of Switzerland who opened his, Andrew Vietze
In the last decade, as the Portland Police Department--an essentially suburban f, Joshua F. Moore
"I Remember" piece by a reluctant participant on ice-fishing expedition in Maine, Elizabeth Peavey
"I Remember" piece on how a teacher at Colby College and a somewhat reluctant ne, Debra Spark
"I Remember" piece on the author's experience working with Dr. Richard Hornberge, Anthony Betts
"I Remember" piece on the author's failure to grow anything but basil on his Mai, Caskie Stinnett
"I Remember" piece on the greater yellowlegs, a water bird that nests in Labrado, Susan Hand Shetterly
"I Remember" piece on the "intimate" but "not intimate" community that forms amo, Michael Paterniti
"I Remember" piece on the time the author spent living on an old 30-foot sloop m, Ken Textor
Joshua F. Moore, a schooner captain, describes various methods to avoid seasickn, Joshua F. Moore
Just off the East Trail of Bangor City Forest is the two-year-old Orono Bog boa, Jennie Pfander
Letter to the editor from the nine-member Commission to Study Maine Hospitals, i, to Study Commission
Magruder "Mac" Passano, 80, "the Bike Man of Chebeague" and a retired zoology pr, James V. Horrigan
"Maine for the Holidays" shopping guide for the regions of Kittery to the Kenneb
Maine is a model for control of its dog population, and the placement rates of M, Joshua F. Moore
Marshall Island, 10 miles southwest of Mount Desert Island and once the largest, Jeff Clark
Master Maine Guide Greg Drummond of Highland Plantation demonstrates four techni
Merryspring Nature Park in Camden is a 66-acre nature preserve tucked behind a s, Rebecca Martin Evarts
New York-based Warren Kremer Paino is designing a 3-year, $9.6-million "It must, Edgar Allen Beem
"North by East" piece comparing the 68 percentage of forest cover in Maine in 18
"North by East" piece containing 2002 crime statistics for Portland.
"North by East" piece noting that Maine, unlike some states, does not require pe
"North by East" piece noting that state tax officials collected $37 million from
"North by East" piece noting that under a new law, veterinarians will be exempt
"North by East" piece on a 450-pound bronze statue of a caribou, created by scul
"North by East" piece on a banner reportedly flown at the Twentieth Maine Regime
"North by East" piece on a bill sponsored by Portland Democratic representative
"North by East" piece on a dozen residents and visitors to Maine who describe th
"North by East" piece on a federal warning in Maine newspapers about an avian vi
"North by East" piece on a group of civil engineering students at the University
"North by East" piece on Al Hawkes, 74, former owner of Hawkes Plaza on Route 30
"North by East" piece on a Maine law that requires drivers to report the acciden
"North by East" piece on Andy Swift of Hope, who owns Swift's Firefly Restoratio
"North by East" piece on a new title to be awarded to the Sts. Peter and Paul Ch
"North by East" piece on a new Washington, D.C.-based CFED study, whcih ranks Ma
"North by East" piece on an unexplained glitch that has dispatchers at the Penob
"North by East" piece on a survey of 150 city flags conducted by the North Ameri
"North by East" piece on a tax revolt catalyzed by the Maine Revenue Services' a
"North by East" piece on birdwatchers who look for unusual gulls at the Portland
"North by East" piece on California rigger Bruce Schwab, who spent a year at Por