Down East Magazine

Down East: The Magazine of Maine is the main monthly publication focusing on general interest topics related to the state of Maine. It is headquartered in Camden, Maine, and was first established in 1954 under its original name, Down East Magazine. The magazine explores various subjects such as politics, business, culinary trends, fashion, and lifestyle within Maine.

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In Farmingdale, a Verdant Spectacle Plays Out for Passing Motorists

1 week ago | downeast.com | Virginia M. Wright

Ellen Jackson lives on a busy road in Farmingdale, but her home seems to float above the din, tucked behind a curtain of lilac, mock orange, and sour-cherry blossoms. Like many first-time visitors, I breezed past her driveway, realizing I missed it when I caught a flash of white picket fence between the flower-laden branches.
62 Maine Ice Creams (And Other Frozen Treats) to Try This Summer

2 weeks ago | downeast.com | Will Grunewald |Joel Crabtree

Ice cream is a critical element of every Vacationland summer. Strolling down Main Street or sitting on a bench by the shore or relaxing after a hike — are any quintessential Maine experiences not improved with a waffle cone in hand? If we missed any of your personal go-tos, — this list might need an update. Velma and Earl Butterfield opened this stand on their farm in 1950, and though ownership has changed since then, not too much else has.
Saco Illustrator Lewis Rossignol’s Sketchy Figures Are Drawing a Huge Following

1 month ago | downeast.com | Sara Anne Donnelly

In a February 4 YouTubevideo titled “The Real Reason Artists Hate the Blank Page,” Saco illustrator Lewis Rossignol dons a new maroon suit and declares spastic war on a fresh piece of paper. “This paper has been through nothing, it’s pristine,” he says. “I’m not pristine. I’ve been through a ton of crap . . . I’ve made a ton of mistakes. I’ve hurt people’s feelings, I’ve had my feelings hurt . . .
The Art of Saltwater Fly Tying

1 month ago | downeast.com | Will Grunewald

Fly-fishing and Maine, together, bring a number of things to mind straightaway: the quicksilver flash of brook trout, trailblazing guide “Fly Rod” Crosby, Carrie Stevens’s iconic Gray Ghost fly, casting from a sturdy Rangeley-style rowboat, the quietude of upland rivers and streams. Ever since the middle of the 19th century, when word of Maine’s big and abundant brookies reached the East Coast’s big cities, fly-fishing has been intrinsic to the state’s sporting culture.
Does Portland's Oun Lido’s Live Up to the Hype?

1 month ago | downeast.com | Will Grunewald

Oun Lido’s chef and co-owner BounahcreeKim, who goes by “Bones,” has a strong Portland pedigree. He cooked for several years at Cong Tu Bot, chef Vien Dobui’s lauded Vietnamese restaurant, and most recently worked at Miyake, the most venerable of the city’s sushi counters, and its sister noodle bar, Pai Men Miyake. At Miyake, where his brother is head chef, Kim was training to be sous chef when Dobui approached him about partnering to run his own kitchen in the city.
At a Harrison B&B, the Owners and Guests Are Tight

1 month ago | downeast.com | Sarah Stebbins

Some of Jill and Joe Drew’s closest friends have been their guests at Harrison’s Greenwood Manor Inn. There are the Daleys, whose kids bounce back and forth with their brood between the single-family home, where the Drews live, and the attached former carriage house, where the inn’s guest rooms are located. There are bachelor buddies Ed, Mike, and Jimmy, who were among the first people Jill texted after giving birth to the couple’s fourth child in January.
Blooming Where She’s Planted

1 month ago | downeast.com | Jesse Ellison

Lynn Karlin seems to hardly ever sit down. On a late-fall afternoon in the whitewashed photography studio behind her Belfast home, she was up and down, making coffee and tea, offering crackers and cookies. She moved in and out of a prop room and the large sun-drenched space where she shoots still lifes. She darted between a table where she’d recently staged a portrait of pastel-colored pumpkins and striped squashes atop peeling wooden pedestals and the computer where she edits images.
Cheryl Staples Sees the World Through Rose-Colored (and Green and Blue) Glasses

2 months ago | downeast.com | Sara Anne Donnelly

During a trip to Bar Harbor in the mid ’90s, Cheryl Staples spotted a chunk of sea glass shining like a sapphire on the beach. She dug it out, dusted it off, and held it up to the sun. The smoothed jar bottom seemed to glow in her hand. “I really enjoyed how beautiful it was,” Staples recalls. “So I put it in my pocket and that was that.” Every day for the remainder of the vacation, she trolled the beach, filling gallon-size Ziploc bags with sea glass.
Brian Hughes Has Reinvented the Humble Garden Hoe

2 months ago | downeast.com | Will Grunewald

Since time immemorial, the humble hoe has been an essential implement of agriculture (and, consequently, civilization). Both the ancient Sumerians and ancient Chinese believed deities had conferred hoes upon mankind. Fast-forward to the present to find hoes leaning against sheds around the globe and featuring in innumerable YouTube and TikTok videos that tout their virtues — “Know Your Garden Hoe” or “What Your Favorite Kind of Hoe?” In Mozambique, a hoe even adorns the national flag.
Meredithe Stuart-Smith's Favorite Maine Place

2 months ago | downeast.com | Sarah Stebbins

When Meredithe Stuart-Smith wants to show her English colleagues how Americans celebrate holidays, she often pulls up photos of the Fourth of July festivities in Castine. Every year, the town common is a hub of patriotic pride, with a parade assembling on School Street and costume, tug-of-war, and pie-eating contests playing out on a wide lawn.