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Cover of Down East Magazine August 2015 featuring scenic coastal imagery and feature articles on local Maine culture.

Down East Magazine

Down East Magazine, August 2015

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Features

Your Favorite Maine State Parks

We asked our readers, then sent our photographers out to 10 of the state’s most beautiful public lands, from beaches to mountains to historic forts.


All Is Well

Ripped from the headlines: a tale of a stranded sailor, an unlikely rescue, an love lost (and found) on the high seas.


Hard Tellin’ Not Knowin

What exactly is the Maine dialect? What does it mean to talk like a Mainer in 2015? The answers are wicked complicated.


Whose Town Is It Anyway?

A flurry of development in the Kennebunks prompts a philosophical tug-of-war over the towns’ identities.


Spose: The King of Maine Gets Happy

Maine’s hardest working rapper on success, misery, and fast food.


Departments

Where in Maine?

Can you peg a name to lake and lighthouse?


Editor’s Note

Maine State Parks


Letters to the Editor

What You Said


Your Maine

What’s your favorite place to paddle a canoe or kayak in Maine?


North by East

Down East Dispatches

News You May Have Missed


What’s in a Picture

The End of an Era in Lubec


Q&A

Walter Skold, Founder of the Dead Poets Society of America


Dooryard

Home

A Retro Cumberland Cottage


Making it Maine

Geoffrey Warner’s Owl Stools


Garden

A Family Affair in Jefferson


My Maine

Blueberries Saved My Life!


Recipe

Tomato and Bread Salad


Room With a View

Seeing Stars


Guide

Dining

Boynton-McKay Food Co.


Radio

Old-Time at WYAR


Excursion

Stemwinder Sculpture Works & Gardens


Menu

Smokin’ Good BBQ


Book

The Enchanted August


Fiction

From Ann Beattie’s The State We’re In: Maine Stories


August Calendar

Go Here. Do this. See that.


From Our Archives: August 1957

A look back at Down East fifty eight years ago

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Down East Magazine gift subscription card featuring Maine scenery and magazine logo, ideal for gift-giving.

Your Window Into Maine

Whether you live here or read from away, Down East magazine keeps you connected to what matters most.

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