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"Down East", also "Downeast", is a term referring to parts of eastern coastal New England and Canada, particularly the U.S. state of Maine and Canada's Maritime Provinces, an area that closely corresponds to the historical French territory of Acadia. The phrase apparently derives from sailing terminology: sailors from western ports sailed downwind toward the east to reach the area.
Within Maine, the phrase may refer specifically to the state's easternmost regions, also called Down East Maine. A person from the area may be called a down-easter.
Down East: The Magazine of Maine is the principal general interest monthly magazine covering the U.S. state of Maine. It is based in Camden, Maine. As it was originally known, Down East Magazine was founded in 1954. It covers a range of topics including politics, business, food, fashion, and lifestyle in the state of Maine.
It enjoys the largest paid circulation of any publication in the state, at 91,564, and 64% of its readership is aged 55 and above. Global readership exceeds 400,000. The magazine is published twelve times a year by its parent company, Down East Enterprise, Inc., which also publishes Shooting Sportsman and Fly Rod & Reel magazines. In 2013, Down East Enterprise sold its book publishing arm to Rowman & Littlefield.
In 2013 Kathleen Fleury became the first female editor-in-chief of Down East Magazine. Paul Doiron is Editor Emeritus and Bob Fernald is President, CEO and Publisher.
The magazine recently opened a second office in Portland, Maine.
Down East Magazine and Vermont Life Magazine together founded the International Regional Magazine Association in 1960. The magazine is a member of the International Regional Magazine Association, the Penobscot Bay Chamber of Commerce, the City and Regional Magazine Association, the Alliance for Audited Media, and the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce.
In North Carolina, Down East historically refers to the group of communities east of Beaufort in Carteret County in the coastal plain region of the state. The residents of Down East Carteret County have referred to their group of communities by this name for many decades, but recently, the media has broadened this term to encompass the central Coastal Plains region of the state.
These communities are Bettie, Otway, Straits, Harkers Island, Gloucester, Marshallberg, Tusk, Smyrna, Williston, Davis, Stacy, Masontown, Sea Level, Atlantic and Cedar Island. Many residents of these communities feature a High Tider ("Hoi Toider") accent, a dialect remnant of Elizabethan English that was once spoken in colonial Carolina. This dialect is indigenous to the lowland areas of North Carolina, in combination with the general southern accent of the Southeastern region.
The area is a major fishing area, including shrimping and blue crabs.
" Down East" is a term for parts of eastern New England and Canada's Maritime Provinces.
Down East may also refer to:
- Down East (North Carolina), communities east of Beaufort in Carteret County, United States
- Down East, The Magazine of Maine, a monthly magazine in Maine
- Down East Books, a publishing imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
Usage examples of "down east".
To satisfy himself that they could do this and still be fit to fight when they arrived, he took Campion and two others, and himself covered the three and a half miles to the down east of Watership.
As you leave the old city on the north, and go down east for three le, there is the rock dwelling of Devadatta, and at a distance of fifty paces from it there is a large, square, black rock.
Outside, he paused to look down East Sixty-Second, inhaling the crisp evening air.
The littlest come down East Rud toward the smallholds, which was where we were, and where we made our stand.
But there's a nasty-looking low-pressure convection cooking down east of Puerto Rico.
As she trod back down East Forty-ninth Street, wagging the doggie bag in the frigid ebony air (the added weight of the dessert spoon going unnoticed), Ellen Cherry was deciding that since she was forsaking her personal artisthood, she must also forsake art over all.
Finally, after walking around the Temple for over an hour, he started down East Kingdom Avenue, toward the Ministry of Missions, where Jynckia had his office.