Features The Write Stuff. Maine boasts the country’s second most bookstores per capita, and we asked some notable Maine writers — Stephen King and Lois Lowry, among others — where …

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North by East Fire and Ice. A smoked-apple hard cider, brewed last winter, is now ripe for enjoying. Maine Moment What Floats Their Boats. For a group of winter sailors, racing tiny …

By Sandy Lang Photos by Peter Frank Edwards From our January 2025 issue. On a late-January evening at Absolem Cider Company, in Winthrop, wisps of smoke tinged with the sweet-tangy …

On a camping trip in 1979, Ted and Laura Sweeney, a Massachusetts couple, fell in love with Acadia National Park. A year later, they started a business, Tempshield Cryo-Protection, …

Since 1954, the goal of Down East has always been to hold a mirror up to the state and to celebrate its independent character and unhurried way of life. Today, the magazine is known …

Features A Very Merry Down East Christmas Classic. In “Grandpa’s Christmas Present,” from our January 1963 issue, the author and his father and grandfather get themselves into some …

The book was Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World, quietly self-published by the Nearings in 1954 before reemerging in the ’70s as one of the most …

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