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.