Features
Twilight for a Lobsterman?
For thirty-five years, Howard Kimball has set off to tend his traps from his Rockport harbor wharf. Now, high taxes and diminishing returns threaten his livelihood. By Lew Dietz.
Making It In Maine
Two more success stories from the Pine Tree State.
The Snow Flew White
Warm recollections of cold boyhood winters on the snowy shores of Union River Bay. By Ernest Dodge.
Color Photo Essay: Winter, Down East Style
Ordinary winter activities pale beside the uncommon ways Mainers have dreamed up to pass the long season.
Ordeal of the Steamboat ‘Katahdin’
Her coal supply awash, the steamboat’s plucky crew heaved cargo, fittings, and furniture into the boiler to bring her safely to port during a January, 1886, storm. By Brian Phelan.
Departments
Room With A View
The plants native to the island which delight me the most are the lady slippers,which come out after the last snow melts and which bloom through the early part of June. In my opinion, there is no ornament anywhere lovelier than the mauve blossom of a lady slipper, standing shyly and alone on the forest floor. By Caskie Stinnett.
Traveling Down East
Maine Winter Vacations
North by East
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
Outdoor Maine
Togues Spawn Early Due to Lack of Sun
Down East Bookshelf
Emmeline by Judith Rossner
I Remember
My $65 Racehorse
Cover: “Young Fisherman” (24″ x 30″), oil on canvas, by Jeremiah Pearson Hardy. From the collection of the William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland; a gift of the Estate of Harriet W. St. Clair. Considered one of the most engaging of mid-nineteenth-century provincial artists, Hardy (1800-1887) recorded the local folk and local color of his native Bangor for some sixty years. A student of painting in New York under artist Samuel F.B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, Hardy’s work is noted for its unusual balance of the sophisticated and the naive.