"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 1998
"North by East." Colby College and three campuses of the University of Maine ea
"North by East." Cook's Lobster House on Bailey Island, which has become nation
"North by East." Description of the potluck suppers run every month in Belgrade
"North by East." Descriptions of five statistics regarding commerce in Bar Harb
"North by East." Descriptions of Roland Beauregard's objection to the name "Bub
"North by East." Descriptions of three statistics on Maine commerce.
"North by East." Despite a large influx of coyotes, presumably in pursuit of th
"North by East." Down East lobstermen fear that the lobster population risks co
"North by East." Four statistics, with detailed explanations, on Maine tourism.
"North by East." Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington now allows the uninsu
"North by East." In southern Maine, March holds the state's trickiest weather.
"North by East." Interview on various bee-related topics with state bee inspect
"North by East." In the first relocation program attempted in Maine, and maybe
"North by East." In the last four years, the number of Maine farmers markets ha
"North by East." Judy Steele of Troy, a barn expert, manages the Maine Barns an
"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