Features
Rachel’s Refuge
Maine’s salt marshes receive belated recognition. By Robert Deis.
An Uncommon Fair
Tradition and innovation blend at the Common Ground Fair. By Gretchen Ebbesson.
Boom in Marine Antiques
Collectors vie for relics of the state’s nautical past. By Lew Dietz.
Clammin’, My Way
Happiness is a mess of clams, dug with due deliberation. By Dale Rex Coman.
The Gardens of Mt. Desert
Early rusticators left behind a colorful floral legacy. By Elizabeth McKey Hulbert.
Heating with Wood
Special 12-page supplement. By the Editors of Down East.
Tarzan of the Maine Woods
The publicity-inspired saga of a Primitive Man. By Lois Lowry.
Hardy Pioneer Survivor
Damariscotta’s Chapman-Hall House recalls colonial days. By Robert E. Dunbar.
Willard
Unexpected wisdom from a tiller of the soil. By Norwood P. Beveridge.
Departments
Room With A View
At my supermarket the other day I noticed that a razor manufacturer was exhorting me not only to throw away my blade after one use, but to throw away the whole razor; the disposable razor is the shave of the future, I was assured. By Caskie Stinnett.
Traveling Down East
Colonial Blue Hill
What’s ln A Picture?
Annie L. Henderson Fire
North by East
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
Outdoor Maine
Signs Tilt Toward Better Deer Herd Outlook
Down East Bookshelf
Too Close Apart by Jean G. Howard
I Remember
Winning a Race from FDR
Cover: “Stonington,” (20″ x 30″), watercolor by W. James McGlynn, a Delaware engineer whose summers are spent painting near Deer Isle.