The former snowshoe factory that houses downtown Norway’s nonprofit Lights Out Gallery is a series of derelict, leaky brown ...

Just an hour south of heavily touristed Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park, a hidden gem is ready to welcome visitors. Sitting where the Penobscot River meets Penobscot Bay, the town of Searsport ...

Will Grunewald is Down East's editor in chief and has been with the magazine since 2016, after previously working at Washingtonian. He lives in Brunswick with his wife, Heidi, and a spunky little dog ...

The first time Josh Rowan laid eyes on Hindu was in 2007, when he agreed to captain it for a friend who ran a charter company in the Florida Keys and Massachusetts. The 1925 schooner had been ...

Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from the July photo of Wiggly Bridge in York Harbor.

Sharon Eblacker and James Haibach have been rehabbing their 1760 place since 2018.

Three years ago, Josh Bossin was leading a backpacking trip for students from Vermont’s Sterling College when he noticed one of them could barely walk. She had borrowed her mom’s old, ill-fitting ...

Reassessing its future, the Moosehead region balances growth and livability with mossiness and moosiness.

Blue Butterfield’s new memoir Maine: A Love Story, composed of 32 essays illustrated with her woodcut prints, is at its most vivid when she trains her eye on her estranged father. “My father was a ...

In February, Farmington native Briana DeSanctis waded into the Pacific Ocean from California’s Point Reyes National Seashore, becoming the first woman to complete the cross-country American Discovery ...

Nearly 30 years ago, Eric Greven and Susan Greven Vayda fell for a house bordering a Falmouth golf course. Though they aren’t golfers, they were smitten with the grey-shingled place outfitted with ...