Features
Augusta
Capital of Maine since 1832, Augusta has always been more a public institution than a real city. Against odds, a new generation of residents is trying to bring the Kennebec River town into some sort of civic focus. By Edgar Allen Beem.
A College on The Cutting Edge
The newly elevated College of Forest Resources at the University of Maine at Orono has gained a leading position among forestry schools in the nation, due to a progressive curriculum and an expanded research program aimed at enhancing the state’s most valuable natural resource. By Michael T. Kinnicutt.
Maine’s Four Seasons
A portfolio of color photographs celebrates the turn of seasons down east, where northern latitudes encourage varieties and extremes of beauty not found in southern climes.
Environmental Award
This year’s winner of Down East‘s annual Environmental Award is Marion Fuller Brown, of York, whose single-minded, twenty-five year campaign — as legislator, lobbyist, and environmental spokeswoman — to bring down the billboards along Maine’s highways has, at long last, been crowned with victory. By Michael T. Kinnicutt.
Making a Dream Come True
Since fleeing the suburbs of Connecticut with their family ten years ago, Paul and Mollie Birdsall have found happiness and fulfillment carving out a self-sufficient country life on a 300-acre farm near Blue Hill. By Liz Cary Pierson.
‘Improvements’
Cartoonist Micheal Ricci offers some rather lighthearted — and improbable — suggestions about what could befall Maine should it pull out all the stops in the interest of promoting tourism.
Hinkley Sails On!
A half-century after the late Henry R. Hinckley founded the Southwest Harbor company that has made his family name synonymous with yacht-building excellence, a new Hinckley assumes the helm. By James P. Brown.
John Marin on The Coast of Maine
Maine artists, from the nineteenth century on, have demonstrated a fascination with the interplay between sea and shore. As a recent show at New York’s Kennedy Galleries suggests, John Marin has probably had the last word to date.
Riding High at Sugarloaf
Once Maine’s leading ski racer, Peter Webber today oversees a snowballing real estate and condominium operation that stretches from the mountains to the sea. By Davis Thomas.
No Ketchup Served Here!
A gleaning of recipes from the menu of a Maine restaurant whose owner simply prides himself on being “a good provider.”
Environmental Watch
Robert Deis takes a resource-by-resource look at the ecological victories and defeats of the year just past.
Cover: “Munjoy Hill and Observatory” (12″ x 16″), oil on canvas, by Alfred C. Chadbourn.