Down East Magazine, September 2026
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Twice weekly highlights on products & makers from our store, as well as special promotions!
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Our annual round-up of Down East readers’ favorite things spans from bakers to cheese makers, theater groups to boat trips, and saunas to antiques stores.
As the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association’s annual country fair hits a major milestone, we look back at a half century’s worth of history, with archival photography, familiar faces, and, of course, iconic poster art.
By Will Grunewald
Rustic sporting camps have drawn generation after generation to hunt and fish in the Maine woods, but their numbers have been dwindling for years. What does it take to keep these classic backcountry outposts going?
By Ethan Daly
Photographed by Mat Trogner
Where in Maine
Dooryard
Wild Ride
A trippy amusement-park attraction turns 50.
Maine Moment
Fertile Ground
For a novelist, the time was ripe for a love story set in an apple orchard.
Lucky Break
A chance encounter landed a couple in their dream spot.
Earthy Delights
The fleeting pleasure of a wild-mushroom patch.
Maine Dispatches
Inn Crowd
A historic lodging establishment welcomes a host of visiting chefs.
Wide Net
A new exhibit considers a broad range of island portraits.
Room With a View
A memory of summer’s end.
Special Section: Explore Biddeford
The historic mill town embraces a new era.
My Favorite Place
Chef Jose Garces, on Biddeford’s Middle Beach.
ON THE COVER
Breezing by the Rockland Breakwater.
Photo by Dave Waddell.
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