On a late-January evening at Absolem Cider Company, in Winthrop, wisps of smoke tinged with the sweet-tangy scent of cooking apples rose into the icy blueness. The cidery’s founders, Ryan Travers, ...

Who says this is the off-season? Food fests, concerts, snow sports, and more are going on across Maine all through the colder months. Hang out and watch as racers hurtle on wooden toboggans down a 400 ...

Every time the telephone rings in Bryant Pond, it’s a crank call. That doesn’t mean all the town’s 300 telephone subscribers are displeased with the service. It’s just that they share the unique ...

Until chef Suzanne Vizethann showed up, the only thing southern about downtown Camden was the orientation of the traffic jam on summer Sunday afternoons. And since 1942, that stream of cars has been ...

Maine residents and visitors have never let cold, snow, and ice keep them from enjoying the adventures winter provides. Traditionally, a day of skiing, sledding, and skating was followed by warming up ...

On a camping trip in 1979, Ted and Laura Sweeney, a Massachusetts couple, fell in love with Acadia National Park. A year later, they started a business, Tempshield Cryo-Protection, making gloves that ...

As a teenager, Jaymi Poor painted her bedroom walls in eye-popping shades of hot pink, safety orange, highlighter yellow, and electric blue. Paired with a fluorescent-pink shag rug, a patchwork quilt, ...

On a raw, overcast afternoon last winter, members of Mostly Maine Frosty Fleet No. 9 arrived in the parking lot of the Kittery Point Yacht Club, in New Castle, New Hampshire, and began unloading ...

Through Healing Loops, York needleworker Audrey Mahlman sells handmade hats, blankets, and scarves to benefit Christopher’s ...

Every winter brings ice bars to Maine, although the lineup tends to ebb and flow. Here are a few you can find in 2025.

The table of contents from the August 1997 issue of Down East.