Down East October 1988

October 1988

The table of contents from the October 1988 issue of Down East.

Features

Varsity Farming

The distance between Dick Davidson’s dairy farm and his English classroom at prestigious Hebron Academy is very short indeed. By Robert Kimber.

Lure of the Maine Coast

A trip down east in the mid-I800s was a challenge for the crippled artist, but Fitz Hugh Lane came back again and again to leave a luminescent legacy.

Haute Cuisine Goes to College

Bowdoin students once subsisted on sea bread and salt fish. Larry Pinette changed all that. By G.W. Helfrich.

Stymied

Foxholes dug in the sand traps produced a bunker mentality at the Waterville Country Club.

Museum for the Birds (and mone)

Southwest Harbor’s Wendell Gilley Museum is the very model of a modern cultural center. By Norah Deakin Davis.

Bundle Up!

Greenhouse effect to the confiary, the real prospects are for colder weather, according to meteorologist “Altitude Lou” McNally. By Jeff Clark.

East of Route One

The traveler finds autumnal splendor and a sense of deep repose. Photographs by Joe Devenney.

St. George Dragonmaker

Radiator repairman turned sculptor, Dan Daniels is still stunned at the fairy-tale success of his whimsical, sheet-metal creations. By Elizabeth Kate Braestrup.

Making It in Maine

Three more success stories from the Pine Tree State.

Trips Down East 1988

A special 24-page supplement devoted to the off-season joys of vacationing in the Pine Tree State from — leaf-peeping to downhill skiing.

Departments

Room With A View

I am bitterly resentful of what the people of Maine are doing to turn their coastline into a 3,000-mile refuse dump. By Caskie Stinnett.

Traveling Down East

Off Season Under Sail

The Maine Viewpoint

Vive le Français

Along the Waterfront

Modern Brigantine in Rockland

Outdoor Maine

Hunting Prospects

Down East Bookshelf

Complicity by Elizabeth Cooke

Top of the Month

Living History in Bradley

North by East

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

I Remember

The Lost Hunter in Princeton

Cover: Detail from painting by Fitz Hughlaze, Shipping in Down East Waters, c. 1850, 17-1/4″ x 30″. William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland.