March 8, 1945, started as a routine day for Dean Yeaton. His father’s remote logging camp on the edge of western Maine’s Spencer Lake had no electricity and no running water. In the morning, the ...

Maine’s most influential architects since the early 19th century designed buildings that expressed the priorities and aspirations of their generation. But their projects were not merely of the moment.

It was the middle of October and Cobbosseecontee Lake was perfectly still, a mirror reflecting a sky thick with billowing clouds. Em Russell was standing on the stern of a little motorboat, wearing ...

In a frigid, bluebird Sunday afternoon last winter, the Lime City and Swan Vegas curling clubs gathered on Chickawaukie Pond, in Rockland, to crack jokes and beers before a “pondspiel” — a play on the ...

Nowhere in coastal Maine, where hardships are crowned with pointed firs and trimmed with a shimmering sea, is there a crisis more beautifully evinced than in Northeast Harbor. Staid and understated, ...

Franklin County: Potato Beer The Maine Potato Ale, brewed at Sugarloaf resort’s Bag and Kettle, is a staple of the après-ski scene, and it’s exactly what it sounds like: beer brewed with Caribou ...

Maine’s history is full of wars, shipwrecks, epidemics, and everyday lives cut short. In some corners of the state, it feels like the past hasn’t quite packed up and left. Myths, legends, and ...

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When I was a child, Squirrel Island was another name for heaven, with the blue sky overhead and the blue sea all around it. From 1878, when I was an infant of six months, until 1905, when I was ...

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On a recent morning at the University of New England’s marine-science center, in Biddeford, Peaches the lobster was in a prickly mood, scurrying backward and forward, claws splayed, when a visitor ...

Down East Magazine STOP! the note commands, in big red letters. What follows are simple directions for taking the rope out of the bag tangle free. “Removal by other means will create a mess and make ...