Down East July 1988

July 1988

The table of contents from the July 1988 issue of Down East.

Features

Living the Sane Life on Monhegan

Raquel and Peter Boehmer have found that money isn’t everything on an offshore island. By Jonathan White.

Assignment: Maine

Maine Photographic Workshop students produce a vision of summer down east.

Fear and Loathing in Vacationland

How to cope with the summer houseguest. By Peter H. Spectre.

Vacations Andante

The beat is leisurely at Quisisana resort on Kezar Lake — and the staff often appears to be having all the fun. By James P- Brown.

Hippocampus Rides Again!

A storied former yacht again dashes through the ocean swells. By Peter Clifford.

What Price Lobster?

Faced with a growing scarcity that threatens an entire way of life, Maine lobstermen are moving to conserve this priceless resource. By Cynthia Bourgeault.

Boothbay Harbor

One big party — all summer long. Photographs by loe Devenney.

Prepare to Be Boarded!

One day in the life of a neophyte drug warrior. By William G. Smith.

Practice What You Preach!

Environmentalist and junk dealer, Sam Zaitlin does just that — and vice versa. By Jeff Clark.

Making It in Maine

Six more success stories from the Pine Tree State.

Along the Shore

A great-great-granddaughter uncovers a remarkable cache of century-old photographs — and the story of the woman who made them. By Abbie Sewall.

Departments

Room With A View

What Thoreau never foresaw was the time when shopping and eating would become recreational rather than functionat, and malls would replace meadows in order to accommodate the public’s growing appetite for both needless acquisitions and French fries with ketchup. By Caskie Stinnett.

The Talk of Rangeley

Fiddlin’ Around, The Old-Fashioned Way

The Maine Viewpoint

Moody Beach Muddle

Boating Down East

Victory Chimes to Sail Again

Letter from Upcountry

In Praise of Pickerel

Down East Bookshelf

Dead Meat by William G. Tapply, The Student Body by J.S. Borthwick, and The Voyage of the Chianti by B.J. Morison

Top of the Month

Ocean Park Monsters

North by East

Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.

I Remember

Intruder at Popham Beach

Cover: Picnic on the rocks, Monhegan. By Tom Stewart.