Down East May 1978

May 1978

The table of contents from the May 1978 issue of Down East.

Features

Made in Maine of Wood

A long tradition of wooden shipbuilding lives on. By Bill Prosser.

Have Bees, Will Travel

Beekeepers, like their charges, keep busy all summer. By Anne Weber.

Burnham Tavern

Where rum and patriotism once flowed freely. By Charles Zurhorst.

Carrageenan, Anyone?

You’ve probably had some today — from Rockland. By Dava Sobel.

Austin Cary: Pioneer Forester

The rough-hewn diamond who revolutionized forestry. By Gloria Hutchinson.

Vanished Temple of Art

Bar Harbor’s grandiose gesture lasted but forty years. By Gladys O’Neil.

Wild Orchids of Maine

Observe, enjoy, but please don’t pluck.

Lo, The Humble Alewife

A little fish supports several coastal communities. By Hugh Williams.

Departments

Room With A View

For better or worse, I think I shall take Rudy’s advice and relocate the wharf. I’ll build a new path through the forest and — the thought has just begun to effloresce in my mind — I’ll cause it to wind in such a way that it will intersect with the old path, thus claiming the best of both situations. By Caskie Stinnett.

Traveling Down East

Kennebunkport

North by East

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

Down East Bookshelf

Anthropology Toward History: Culture and Work in the 19th-Century Maine Town by Richard P. Horowitz

Outdoor Maine

Bigger Landlocked Salmon Forecast in Sebago Lake

I Remember

“Doctoring” in a Barn

Cover: “Spring Street, Belfast,” (19″ x 15″), oil on hardboard, by Marilyn Reay of Brooks. Mrs. Reay’s work is on display in a number of Maine galleries, and her studio-gallery in Brooks is open to the public during the summer.