Down East magazine, has been publishing since August 1954, and continues as one of Maine's most prominent monthly magazines. Their web site's history page provides the following description:

"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.

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Submissions from 1998

"North by East." Maine tourists spend an average of $8.2 million a day. Related

"North by East." New public restrooms are scheduled to open in Portland's Old P

"North by East." Norman and Althea Green have written a book tracing the origin

"North by East." On Deer Isle, Congregational minister Roger Burkhart sees his

"North by East." On her death in 1995, Alys West left $250,000 to the Boothbay

"North by East." Organic milk has been very successful in Maine, which is losin

"North by East." Portland contractor Kaile Warren, broke and living in a wareho

"North by East." Portland High School teachers have been issued 25 wireless tel

"North by East." Scott Logan of Kennebunkport became interested in antiques at

"North by East." Seafood wholesaler Rod Mitchell, owner of Browne Trading Compa

"North by East." Several groups from the Maine Aviation Historical Society will

"North by East." State agencies and private companies appear ahead of the rest

"North by East." State treasurer Dale McCormick, who divested the state of all

"North by East." The average cost of Maine houses is $107,266, $11,000 below th

"North by East." The beaver population is burgeoning in Boothbay Harbor. Trapp

"North by East." The DaPonte String Quartet in the midcoast plans to change Mai

"North by East." The Legislature's plan to include portraits of 25 well-known M

"North by East." The Maine National Guard has been very successful in obtaining

"North by East." The McDonald's restaurant in Houlton is the only McDonald's in

"North by East." The original battle flag of the Twentieth Maine from its histo

"North by East." The Portland Public Market, scheduled to open this month, is a

"North by East." There is controversy in Grand Isle, on the Canadian border, be

"North by East." The school in Greenville is one of the state's few, perhaps th

"North by East." The widening of the Maine Turnpike raises fears of damage to a

"North by East." University of Maine associate professor Warren Riess studies M

"North by East." With the opening of baseball season, Pemaquid Peninsula reside

"North by East." WRBC is a volunteer-run, basement radio station at Bates Colle

North Woods game warden John McPhee still corresponds with his namesake, the New, Andrew Vietze

No two patient rooms at York Hospital are alike, which is typical of the great c, Paul Mann

One of the finest autumn drives in Maine runs from Newcastle to Boothbay. The R

One of the state's first and most influential polling firm is the Social Science, Jeff Clark

Photoessay on Davis Pond in Baxter State Park. It is so deep in the woods that, Robert Villani

Photoessay, with detailed caption, on Petit Manan Light, Maine's second-tallest, Thomas Mark Szelog

Photoessay, with ten photos, on the Fryeburg Fair., Tonee Harbert

Profile of Brunswick daffodil gardener Dr. Russell Pinfold, who sold to Bob and, Jane Lamb

Profile of Cape Elizabeth couple Dick and Helen Mainville, amateur competitive b, Sarah Goodyear

Profile of iceboater Bob Ifill, who sails Lake Maranacook in Readfield., John McPhedran

Profile of Jan and Elizabeth Pierson of Harpswell, authors of "A Birder's Guide, Edgar Allen Beem

Profile of Joan Welsh, president of the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School in, Patrick Morris

Profile of Maine inland watercolor artist Mimi Gregoire Carpenter, who focuses o, Elizabeth Peavey

Profile of Mulberry Cottage and of its owners, Mary Alice Reilley and Lee Wilson, Scott Sutherland

Profile of Old Town Canoe, which dates to 1898 and is the world leader in its fi, Jeff Clark

Profile of Portland municipal organist Ray Cornils, who plays one of only two mu, Meadow Rue Merrill

Profile of retired cookbook writer Marjorie Standish, author of "Keep Cooking th, Ellen MacDonald Ward

Profile of Slate's restaurant in Hallowell and its owner, Wendy Larson., Scott Sutherland

Profile of the huge, new globe of DeLorme Mapping in Yarmouth., Andrew Vietze

Restaurant review of Ricetta's in South Portland, which sells the finest pizza i, Sarah Goodyear

Review of A Place in Mind, by Sydney Lee, which follows the relationship of two, Paul Guernsey

Review of Border Line, a murder mystery set in Maine, by Gerry Boyle of China, n, Agnes Bushell

Review of Maine cookbooks, including Chowders Soups & Stews and Seafood, both by, Cynthia Hacinli