"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
"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
"North by East" piece on how Maine voted on certain national and state issues fr
"North by East" piece on how potholes develop in Maine roads in the spring and t
"North by East" piece on how residents of some Maine towns, often those borderin
"North by East" piece on how the July 26-29 Democratic National Convention in Bo
"North by East" piece on how the Maine Department of Transportation is working t
"North by East" piece on how the state is heating some of its government buildin
"North by East" piece on how the term "Down East" has evolved and fallen out of
"North by East" piece on how the town of Farmington has repurchased a 1944 Oshko
"North by East" piece on how Verizon, the phone company, removed Christmas light
"North by East" piece on Jameson Tavern in Freeport, formerly the Codman Tavern,
"North by East" piece on Maine's 2002 crime statistics. The state has the faste
"North by East" piece on Maine's substantial presence on the online auction site
"North by East" piece on Michael Hussey, an Alfred native and the creator of Rat
"North by East" piece on moose-vehicle collisions, which peak in May and June.
"North by East" piece on Outside magazine's choice of Lincolnville as one of Ame
"North by East" piece on Richard Albert of Township 15 Range 15, who believes he
"North by East" piece on sales of hybrid cars in Maine, noting that the combinat