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.