Down East Magazine, July 2017

Features

Best of Maine

We spend a year thinking about it, a few months arguing about it, and hours counting your votes for it. Here’s our annual list of Maine’s best everything.

Christina and Me

A novelist reveals what it’s like to spend three years immersed in Christina’s World, Andrew Wyeth’s most famous — and divisive, and enigmatic — work.

By Christina Baker Kline

Peaceful & Pristine

Residents of Grand Lake Stream have safeguarded thousands of acres of forest. Now they’re fighting for their community’s future.

By Caitlin Shetterly

Departments

Where in Maine?

Connect

The Mail

North by East

Opinions, Advisories, and Musings from the Length and Breadth of Maine

Down East Dispatches

News You May Have Missed

Mountain Maven

A Hike with Aislinn Sarnacki

A Tempestuous Term

Choppy Water for Sea Grant

Talk of Maine

Colby College Goes to Town

Dooryard

Living the Maine Life

Home

A Chapel Conversion

Garden

Waterfront Wonder

Making it in Maine

Wild Blueberry Bubbly

Recipe

Zucchini Fritters

My Maine

Building a Fort

Guide

Food, Drink, Arts, and Culture in Maine

Dining

Portland’s Tipo

Music

From the Top in Mount Vernon

Art

Jonathan and Kate Mess

Events

Culture on Campus

_{On the cover: Popham Beach in Phippsburg by Benjamin Williamson}