Features
North Woods Honeymoon
When two Maine guides married, they waited until freeze-up before striking off on their wilderness wedding trip. By Helen N. Barnes.
Hearty Chowders
Ingredients range from corn and shrimp to shellfish. But the hands-down favorite is fish chowder. By Tracy Lord.
Shipboard Medicine in the Age of Sail
It did little to ease the hard lot of the seafaring man. By Charles E. Burden, M.D.
Letting Daylight into the Swamp at 22° Below
Despite machinery, logging Maine’s big timber is every bit as arduous — and dangerous — as it was more than a century ago. By Marty Brown.
Wintering Over on Monhegan
One of the island’s few year-round painters, Andrew Winter was an artist for all seasons, as a new exhibit shows. By Davis Thomas.
Departments
Room With A View
Nothing is perfect, though, and I must point out that already the statue of The Maine Lobsterman is a little out of date. The statue shows the lobsterman pegging the claw of the lobster, a job that in recent years has given way to banding. By Caskie Stinnett.
Poetry
Abbie Huston Evans
North by East
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
Topic A
Maine’s Tough New Drunk-Driving Law Brings Results
Outdoor Maine
Hunting Regulations Under Review
I Remember
The Day the Airplane Hit Town Hall
Cover: “Monhegan Harbor in Winter” (25″ x 30″), oil on canvas, by Andrew Winter, collection of William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Meissner.