Features
Encounters of a Watery Kind
Whales are summer visitors to the Gulf of Maine. By Philip Conkling.
Sold! F.O. Bailey Changes Hands
Maine’s oldest auction house acquires new owners. By Lois Lowry.
Memories of Northeast Harbor
Samuel Eliot Morison recalls his boyhood summers.
Unsung Saga of the ‘Nightingale’
The long, eventful life of a Maine-built clipper ship. By Jim Martin.
So You Want to Open an Inn?
Prepare for lots of work and — bring money. By Mimi Steadman.
Noctumal Elves of the Forest,
The feats of flying squirrels go generally unseen. By Robert Deis.
The Great Schooner Race
Windjammers vie for glory on Penobscot Bay. By W.B. Leavenworth.
What’s in a Picture?
It flew — briefly and not well — but it flew.
In Praise of the Sardine
A Lubec museum recalls the hey day of the herring. By Kathleen Lignell.
Loners of the Allagash
In summer, they range from sublime to ridiculous. By Dorothy Boone Kidney.
Musicians in the Henhouse
Noel (Paul) Stookey’s unlikely recording studio. By Gunnar Hansen.
Departments
Room With A View
My household includes a fawn boxer bitch, and she is most certainly there for protection, but up to the moment of writing these lines I have done all of the protecting. By Caskie Stinnett.
Traveling Down East
Walking Through Wiscasset
North by East
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine.
Down East Bookshelf
The Greenleaf Fires by John A. Gould
Outdoor Maine
For Safer Boating, Wear a Life Preserver
I Remember
My Summer Job
Cover: “Blue Hill Post Office,” (15″ x 11″), watercolor by Nicky Bottger. Mrs. Bottger, who has previously contributed three covers to Down East, lives in Webster Groves, Missouri, and spends her summers painting Maine.