Down East April 1977

April 1977

The table of contents from the April 1977 issue of Down East.

Features

Thomaston

A coastal town prepares to celebrate its bicentennial. By Mary Bolte.

Beneath the Tides

An underwater look at Schoodic Point. By Wesley Hedlund.

The ‘Bowdoin’ Sails Again

Admiral MacMillan’s arctic explorer gains a new vocation. By John Malcolm.

Portland Glass

Long ignored, it’s fast becoming a collector’s item. By Elizabeth Oliver.

The Water Shrew

A look at the private life of an improbable little mammal. By Donald F. Mairs.

White Granite at North Jay

The fabulous quarry whose unblemished stone supplied a nation. By Randy L. Bennett.

Spring: Maine’s Capricious Interlude

One man’s lyric defense of mud season. By Lew Dietz.

Living Year Round on a Boat

There are many benefits and only one drawback. By Frank Gibbs.

Departments

Room With A View

Diggy was a rangy fellow, long-backed, with legs straight as flagpoles, and blessed with a  fretting energy and an optimistic nature. He needed both, for he undertook to build on two  sloping acres a house “just big enough for me and a black stove.” By M.Hammel.

My Maine

Midnight Ride on the Ferry

For the Record

On Feelin’ Stones

North By East

Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.

Down East Bookshelf

Letters of E.B. White edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth

Outdoor Maine

Return of an Old-Fashioned Maine Winter

Cover: “After the Rain,” a watercolor By Don Stone, A.W.A., of Rockport, Massachusetts. Mr. Stone also has a studio-home on Monhegan Island.