Features
Stalking the Broad Arrow Pine
Is there still a giant pine in Maine that was marked for the British navy more than 200 years ago? By Philip W. Conkling.
Notable Maine Trees
Forest giants flourish here and there around the state. By Des Fitzgerald and Chris Morse.
The Toast of Porter Landing
His name was Jim Steen and he ate fire. By John Gould.
Gardiner’s Grand Lady
Pulitzer Prize-winner Laura E. Richards raised half-a-dozen children and wrote 80 books in a long and useful life. By Marie Donahue.
Wind, Wave, and Surf
In color: the tempestuous seas of April lash the coast.
Making It In Maine
Small entrepreneurs and artisans: four for the record.
Troubadour of Northern Spring
Spring peepers herald the season with a welcome song. By Robert Deis.
Vacationing in Maine
A special 31-page supplement to aid in planning vacations in the Pine Tree State for 1980.
Departments
Room With A View
A gull’s life — a Maine gull’s anyway — is an endless cycle of rain, fog, wind, snow, and calm, with a great deal more of the first four than the last. By Caskie Stinnett.
North by East
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
Outdoor Maine
Fishermen Can Look Forward to Early Ice-Out
Down East Bookshelf
I Sleep Around by Nadya Bernard
I Remember
A Down East Baptism
Cover: “Solitude” (17″ x 24″), watercolor by J. Philip Richards, of Searsport. Mr. Richards directs the Ancestor Art Workshop from his home during summers and displays his work at his own barn gallery.