"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 2004
"Inside Maine" piece on the Pineland Public Reserved Land, which comprises 600 a
"Inside Maine" piece on the Port Clyde General Store, which is a cut above the a, Andrew Vietze
"Inside Maine" piece on the Portland Museum of Art's See and Do program for pres, Andrew Vietze
"Inside Maine" piece on the "Sylvina W. Beal" out of Eastport, which might be th, Andrew Vietze
"Inside Maine" piece on the Thorndike Creamery, opened last summer by Shelley an
"Inside Maine" piece on the well-appointed Captain Jefferds Inn in Kennebunkport, Andrew Vietze
"Inside Maine" piece on the Yachtsman Lodge and Marina in Kennebunkport, owned b, Andrew Vietze
"I Remember" column on the blizzard of 1962, which closed the roads of Charlotte, Sally Williams
"I Remember" piece on the 1954 U.S. Senate primary between Robert L. Jones of Bi, Raymond J. Blair
"I Remember" piece on the 1964 World's Fair in which the author, Harvey Howells,, Harvey Howells
"I Remember" piece on the author's grandfather, Ed Beem, who helped establish Li, Edgar Allen Beem
List of twelve good ideas, developed or refined by Mainers, which have been embr
"Maine for the New Yorker: A Guide for Urbanites on Vacation Down East," with hu
"Maine for Voyeurs," piece on places where one might spot celebrities, including
Maine's poet laureate Baron Wormser describes why he and his wife live in Hallow, Baron Wormser
"North by East" piece consisting of brief interviews with Mainers on the issue o
"North by East" piece listing ice-out dates on selected Maine lakes and giving
"North by East" piece noting that Maine has the second-highest percentage of li
"North by East" piece noting that Maine is the only state that has used its mone
"North by East" piece noting that since the Maine Turnpike was redesignated Inte
"North by East" piece on a $5 million tugboat being built at the Washburn & Doug
"North by East" piece on a bill that New Hampshire's Republican senator Jack Bar
"North by East" piece on a feature in the June issue of Vogue magazine, in which
"North by East" piece on a four-year study by scientists from the University of
"North by East" piece on a national network of women called the Red Hat society,
"North by East" piece on an increase in moose-vehicle collisions since the widen
"North by East" piece on Annie Cook, who is using Segway battery-powered persona
"North by East" piece on an unnamed northern Maine librarian who discovered that
"North by East" piece on a PBS broadcast," Colonial House," which was filmed las
"North by East" piece on a recent proposal by the Fayette planning board to requ
"North by East" piece on a resolution passed by the Maine Legislature ten years
"North by East" piece on a secession threat from the towns of Lincolnville and I
"North by East" piece on a small pond on the campus of the University of Maine a
"North by East" piece on Bruce Schwab, a California rigger, who has spent the pa
"North by East" piece on Chad Callan and Soren Hansen, University of Maine docto
"North by East" piece on chef Sam Hayward's upscale Fore Street restaurant in Po
"North by East" piece on churches that are allowing cellular companies to put an
"North by East" piece on Corey Esposito's machine shop in Surry, where, in the s
"North by East" piece on Craig MacDonald of Bangor, who posted "Killdeer Chicks
"North by East" piece on deer depradation hunts on some Maine islands, which hav
"North by East" piece on Dysart's truck stop and restaurant in Carmel, which has
"North by East" piece on "Elsa's Bridge," between Dingley and Great islands in H
"North by East" piece on fifty public libraries in Maine from Kennebunk to Van B
"North by East" piece on Freecycle.org, a collection of free Web sites where mem
"North by East" piece on Fryeburg potato grower Don Thibodeau, who with his two
"North by East" piece on how, along with the advent of the new E-Z Pass toll sys
"North by East" piece on how Bowdoin College in Brunswick is looking for a gargo
"North by East" piece on how Maine Medical Center in Portland redesigned the tra
"North by East" piece on how Maine's revamped lobster license plate lost by one
"North by East" piece on how Maine's tourism industry will be affected this summ