Nominate your favorite Maine businesses for Best of Maine!
Down East January 1977

January 1977

The table of contents from the January 1977 issue of Down East.

Features

The Charlotte Pound

By Nancy J. Hatton.

Tiffany Windows in Searsport

By John Paddock.

Maine’s Holy Land Colonists

By David E. Shaw

Doll Magic

By Robert E. Dunbar.

Winter Storm

A poem by Wilbert Snow.

Viva Victoria

A story by Virginia Chase.

Our Winters on a Maine Island

By Bruce McMillan.

South Paris Sleds Still Skim the Slopes

By Gloria Hutchinson.

Departments

Room With A View

For me Christmas Eve always recalls the pilgrimages I made that night to downtown Rockland when a young girl in the early 1900s. Most of the year my mother, a widow, held me under a  rather tight rein; but on Christmas Eve she allowed me a night-on-the-town on my own.

By Daphne Winslow Merrill.

North by East

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

Down East Bookshelf

Maine Captured in Color and Verse by Mary R. Calvert and Edwin D. Merry

Outdoor Maine

Steel-Pellet Rule Angers Maine Waterfowlers

Cover: “A Maine Harbor in Winter” (11″ x 14″), a watercolor by William S. Archibald of Tappahannock, Virginia. Mr. Archibald frequently vacations on the Maine coast, where he indulges his special interest in painting historic vessels.