Down East

Who wants to run 26.2 miles through the Maine North Woods in the middle of December? And who really believes that doing so will make a lick…

Hundreds of military planes crashed in Maine during World War II, including 48 that resulted in fatalities. Wreckage is still scattered in…

A longtime sportsman faces down illness — and heads out into the field one last time.

After decades of violence at the hands of her husband, Priscilla got out alive — with help from a Maine safe house that’s among the first…

Sometimes there’s more to a hard day’s work than a hard day’s work.

One hundred and fifty years ago, a group of sensible Down East farmers and their families packed their houses and sailed to the Holy Land…

A friendship that reaches across generations is too rare a thing — and its lessons are too valuable to ignore.

On the occasion of finding his 50-year-old camp letters, one veteran journalist pens a heartfelt love letter to his Maine summer camp.

In 1866, the Great Fire of Portland was the most devastating blaze ever to strike an American city. Andrew Vietze revisits the harrowing…