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.