Features
Dunnet Landing Revisited
Caskie Stinnett pays a visit to the coastal village Sarah Ome Jewett used as a model for her masterpiece, Country of the Pointed Firs. Photographs by Joe Devenney.
A Ticket to Paradise?
So far seventy-four Mainers have won Tri-State Megabucks, but many of them have found that winning big is not necessarily a guarantee of happiness. By Lyn Riddle.
The House that Charlie Built
Charlie Farrell traveled by foot, skiff, and occasionally helicopter while building a summer house on an island at the mouth of the Kennebec River. By Beth Crichlow.
Summer of the Pickerel
Another family had the fanciest gear in camp, but in 1955 the author’s father became the undisputed fishing champion of Lovewell Pond. By David Morine.
Refuge of the Meritocracy
In the heyday of the Islesboro summer colony it was not whom you knew, but what you knew that counted. By Ellen MacDonald Ward.
Getting Maine on Canvas
For forty summers German-born artist Karl Schrag has painted the Down East landscape as a “reflection of the human soul.” By Shirley Jacks.
Doing It Right
Vic and Ruby Higgins have minded the biggest little store in Somesville since 1940. By Nan Lincoln.
First Guide
When George Bush goes after bluefish, Bob Boilard, of Biddeford, leads the way. By Jeff Clark.
Departments
Room With A View
This introrse stance of mine, peering into my own soul, was awkward because it suggested that the things I prized most were too simple, too old-fashioned, and were things that could hardly be expected to engage the sensibilities of an adult. By Caskie Stinnett.
The Talk of Boothbay
Municipal Miracle
The Maine Viewpoint
Self-Reliance in Sedgwick
Letter from Upcountry
First Frost
Along the Waterfront
The Ultimate Yacht
Down East Bookshelf
The Maritime History of Maine by William Hutchinson Rowe and Bath Iron Works: The First Hundred Years by Ralph Linwood Snow
North by East
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
I Remember
Petunia’s ‘B&B’
Cover: Mouth of the Kennebec. Photograph by Brian Vanden Brink.