Features
North by East
Opinions and musings on Bangor’s new dress code, penalties for duelists Down East, and Sears Island’s apparent new owner.
Last Look at a Landmark
As another winter approaches, the days of the great Bowdoin Mill at Topsham seem numbered. By Jeff Clark.
Dealing with the Darkness
Every Mainer seems to have a method for coping with the diminishing amount of daylight that brightens November. By Richard Grant.
Four Sports, a Maine Guide, and Me
I’d never really understood what a registered Maine Guide does in the woods until I tagged along with one and his hunting party from Philadelphia. By Ken Textor.
The Beauty of Old Oak
Over the last twenty years, Alice Welch has become Maine’s foremost dealer in refinished antique oak — which is suddenly as stylish as ever. By Elizabeth Peavey.
Leo Connellan’s Quarrel with Maine
It’s real and it’s furious, but it has also inspired some of the finest poetry ever penned by a Mainer. By Christopher Corbett.
Caution: Mainers at Work
A new book of rare old photographs suggests the lot of the laborer a century ago was hardly idyllic.
Zen and the Art of Toyota Repair
For Toshio Hashimoto, anything worth doing is worth doing well, be it fixing aging Japanese cars or growing sumptuous Shitake mushrooms. By G.M. Eckel, IV.
Making It In Maine
Three more success stories from the Pine Tree State — specialty enterprises ranging from togs for tots to rowing-related gifts.
First-Class Delivery
Rural Free Delivery brought a new way of life to many a Mainer, making upcountry carriers, such as the one portrayed here, into local heroes — and household fixtures. By Ellen MacDonald Ward.
Departments
Room With A View
Returning briefly to the matter of garden columnists, I often wonder why their interest is never in something familiar. By Caskie Stinnett.
The Talk of Kittery
Kittery’s Miracle Mile
The Maine Viewpoint
Cutting the Sales Tax
Inside Maine
Smokin’ Turkeys
Down East Bookshelf
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Along the Waterfront
Rendezvous at Swan’s
I Remember
King of the Woods
Cover: The Bowdoin Mill, at Topsham, by Brian Vanden Brink.