Down East March 1976

March 1976

The table of contents from the March 1976 issue of Down East.

Features

Farewell to the Peddlers

By Alcott Greenleaf.

The Maine Boyhoods of Longfellow and Hawthorne

By Lois Lowry.

The Celebration Mime Theatre

By Mildred H. Cummings.

Maine’s Champion Freestyle Skier

By John A. Gould.

The Last of the Bath-Built Square-Riggers

By Roger Bragdon.

The Owls of Winter

By Christopher M. Packard.

Winter Magic

Photos by G. Lewis Johnson.

Country Pine

By William Rodger.

Departments

Room With a View

By Harvey Howells.

Letters to the Editor

Ski Directory

North by East

The Down East Enterprise

Down East Bookshelf

Outdoor Maine

By Gene Letourneau.

Newsletter

By Doc Rockwell.

Cover: “Near Ragged Mountain” (19″ x 15″),oil on hardboard, by Marilyn Reay of Brooks. Mrs. Reay has had showings at the Waldoboro and Spruce Head Galleries, and plans to open her own gallery in Brooks this summer.