Features
New Look for the One-Room School
At Cliff Island’s one-room school, in Casco Bay, only the school bell is old-fashioned. By Jane Lamb.
At Home With a York Harbor Tory
Jonathan Sayward’s house echoes with Revolutionary fervor. By Marie Donahue.
The Sweep of Autumn
In color: The season’s brilliant hues gild Maine hillsides. Photographs by Kip Brundage.
The Bow Revisited
Retracing a memorable North Woods canoe trip 15 years later. By Henry Franklin.
Saved From the Rubbish Heap
This month’s cover painting comes back from oblivion.
Where There’s a Still, There’s a Way
Prohibition sparked some Yankee ingenuity in rural Maine. By K.W. Carter.
Return of the Native
Charles Shipman Payson has returned to Portland — and his hometown will never be the same again. By William David Barry and Randolph Dominic.
Fighting Back
A special pull-out section on how Mainers can cope with the high cost of keeping warm.
Departments
Room With A View
If you have read this far, you may as well hang on and learn how to get a mouse out of a typewriter because that is the subject of today’s sermon. By Caskie Stinnett.
My Maine
What’s In a Woodpile?
North by East
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
Down East Bookshelf
Morning Was Starlight: My Maine Boyhood by Ernest Dodge
Outdoor Maine
Wild Turkeys Taking Roost in Maine
I Remember
The Summer of the Crow
Cover: “West Branch of the Penobscot River,’ (26″ x 40”), oil on canvas, by Virgil Williams, courtesy Christ Congregational Church, Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Art.