In 2016, Carly Bahler arrived in Madawaska to study the local French. She was a PhD student with midwestern vowels and an infectious sort of brio, and soon after checking in at her convent turned ...

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 ...

I’ve never been much of a beer geek. Cool, crisp, and refreshing is really all I need. And in an effort to cheat the dreaded hangover, I’ve tried out some non-alcoholic beers over the years: O’Douls, ...

A pivotal year in Maine’s history, 1972 saw a changing of the guard among the state’s leaders and powerbrokers, the rapid ascendancy of Maine’s modern conservation ethic, a host of old industries ...

There have always been at least a few good spots around Bethel to warm up with a meal and a drink after a day on Sunday River’s ski slopes. For anyone who hasn’t spent time in town the past few years, ...

At the Appalachian Trail Café in Millinocket, Gary Allen sticks out without being conspicuous. To his right, a long table of locals knock back bottomless cups of coffee. Behind him, a couple of ...

The tireless champions of the nonprofit community are doing their part to make the Pine Tree State a better place. As director of constituent outreach and legislative affairs in the Pennsylvania state ...

Has anyone described Maine’s most iconic mammal more memorably than Henry David Thoreau in The Maine Woods? “Singularly grotesque and awkward to look at,” he wrote. “They made me think of great ...

The new, 30,000-square-foot, $15 million Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine, at Portland’s Thompson’s Point, improves upon everything your kids or grandkids loved about the old downtown location.

One sunny afternoon in late July, 12-year-old Zachary Wallace stood on a float beneath the Eastport pier, fishing for mackerel. To one side of him, lobsterboats bobbed at their moorings, backdropped ...