Down East Magazine, June 2017

Features

Among the Puffins

From windswept islands in a warming Gulf of Maine, one photographer documents the state’s puffin colonies in intimate, dazzling detail.

Photos by Derrick Z. Jackson

Big Al’s Is Huge!!!

You’ve seen the ads. You’ve seen the suspenders. Now get to know the discount king of Route 1.

By Ron Currie

Queen of the Kennebec

Maine whitewater pioneer Suzie Hockmeyer has had a pretty wild ride.

By Virginia M. Wright

The Case of Maine’s Many Mysteries

We live in one of the country’s least homicidal, most neighborly states. So why all the crime fiction?

By Jaed CoffinEllison

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Departments

Where in Maine?

Connect

The Mail

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North by East

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

Down East Dispatches

News You May Have Missed

Mr. Lighthouse

Meet a Modern-Day Keeper

Festival for the Birds

Everybody’s Flocking to Acadia

Psych Out

Rockport’s Freaky Mind Lab

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Dooryard

Living the Maine Life

Home

Historically Simple in Perry

Making It in Maine

Heiwa Tofu

Recipe

Cherry Clafoutis

Room With a View

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Guide

Food, Drink, Arts, and Culture in Maine

Dining

Rockport’s 18 Central

Events

Lady Lamb’s Living-Room Tour

Music

Lula Wiles Comes Home

Theater

PortFringe Picks

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_{On the cover: Atlantic puffin on Eastern Egg Rock, by Derrick Z. Jackson}