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August 2016

August 2016

The table of contents from the August 2016 issue of Down East.

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Features

Swim Pickings

You won’t find them in a tourism pamphlet, and no smartphone app will lead you there. Ready to take a dip in one (or more) of our 12 favorite Maine swimming holes?

Strange Pilgrimage

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 to await the Second Coming. Within a year, it had all gone wrong. — By Virginia M. Wright

Portal to the Past

How and where to shop for antiques in Maine. Welcome to “the nation’s attic.” — By Catherine Burke

Clean Sweep

Elle Logan rowed in Beijing and London and won gold both times. This summer, she goes for her third. So why haven’t you heard of Maine’s baddest Olympian? — By Jesse Ellison

The Definitive Oral History of the Lobster Roll

It wasn’t always our marquee foodstuff. How a humble Maine treat became a culinary rockstar. — By Brian Kevin


Departments

Where in Maine?

Can you name the island and the peaceful cape where this boat is docked?

Connect

The Mail


North by East

Opinions, Advisories, and Musings from the Length and Breadth of Maine

Down East Dispatches

News You May Have Missed

The Last Full Measure

A Middle-School Battlefield

What’s in a Picture

Squirrel Island’s Fete Week

Roadkill Follies

Your Map to Expired Critters

See Stuart Run

Can a new dog learn old tricks?


Dooryard

Living the Maine Life

Home

An Artsy Westbrook Bungalow

Garden

A Floral Legacy in York

Making It in Maine

Next Generation Gifford’s

Recipe

Summer Succotash

My Maine

Glow Babies

Room With a View


Guide

What to Do in Maine This Month

Dining

Portland’s Scales

Menu

Camden’s Pig + Poet

Theater

Summer Shakespeare

Art

Robert Indiana Meets Dylan

Book

On Steven Rowley’s Lily and the Octopus


From Our Archives


On the cover: The classic lobster roll, photographed by Nina Gallant and styled by Monica Mariano. Hand lettering by Angela Southern.

Additional photographs: Erin Little (home); Douglas Merriam (garden); Pat Piasecki (Giffords); Jared Kuzia (dining); Heather Perry (swimming)