Maine Vows.com is a daily, online celebration of Maine brides and grooms. (The chance to win an anniversary weekend gala for 100 is an added bonus!) Read more »
In honor of the volunteer spirit of hospice and the release of Down East's A Healing Touch, Gov. Baldacci names April Hospice Volunteer Recognition Month. Read more »
What does the author of Dark Woods, Chill Waters: Ghost Tales From Down East Maine think about television producers destroying a haunted house? A chilling Q&A with Marcus LiBrizzi.Read more »
Elizabeth Peavey, Down East contributing editor, had one goal while growing up in Maine: to get out. And she did. She traveled to Tasmania and to the top of the Isle of Skye. She lived in San Francisco and Boston. But she came home.Read more »
David Rodgers photographed the Lewiston's Somali community for "Somalis in Lewiston: The Untold Story," published in the September 2007 issue of Down East Magazine. These are his images and views, his story behind the published story. Read more »
For people living in and around Portland, there's simply no getting away from Casco Bay. It wraps around Cape Elizabeth and the cities of Portland and South Portland like a protective mother, splashing onto their wharfs and rocks, reminding these... Read more »
The Maine Downeaster was born in order to carry the wheat crops of California. Maine and California were far more entwined than most of us realize today. The California gold rush of 1849 triggered the speed and beauty of the fast Maine clipper... Read more »
A CIFF-selected documentary shows the lives of three United States troop greeters and the challenges they face as aging Americans in Bangor. (See a video preview here.) Read more »
A benefit for the Farnsworth Art Museum, and hosted by Cellardoor Vineyard, will introduce 12 new artists selected by Harold Garde, Eric Hopkins, Alan Magee and nine other Maine art masters. Read more »
A veteran observer of the NABF, Jaysun Jackie, swears today's crowd is the largest Saturday morning/early afternoon he's ever seen. Jackie should know...he's been working backstage at the blues festival for years.
One thing there's of which... Read more »
"He has, to my mind, one of the most thoroughly original styles and folk inspirations and color I've seen in many years," Ralph Saltus says of Charles Wilder Oakes. "He's entirely genuine; he's not affected at all. His paintings are from a... Read more »
Enjoy a peek at 'What's in a Picture?' — complete with digital 'pages' to turn. (Online readers also enjoy 20-percent discount on the cover price through Nov. 21.) Read more »
UNE offers programs of study on the University's Biddeford Campus, the Westbrook College Campus in Portland, University of Maine - Presque Isle campus, and three campuses in Israel. Read more »
Ever wonder what it would be like to work on a windjammer, to enjoy salt, sun and home-cooked meals seven days a week on Penobscot Bay? This video series will show life aboard — and onshore with — the people who keep the wind in the Maine windjammer fleet sails.