Today the island is the home of Audubon's famous Field Ecology Workshop, a naturalist's summer camp where amateurs and professionals alike can explore marine geology, the distinctive calls of nesting warblers, and the sex life of rockweed, as well as some of the best cuisine on Muscongus Bay. Visitors also learn a few things about themselves, as revealed in the July issue of Down East, the Magazine of Maine.

At the other end of Lincoln County, the town of Whitefield maintains the look and feel of its rural past even as commuting office workers come to outnumber its farmers. The July Down East profiles this close-knit agrarian community, where people tend to get by rather than get ahead.

The article features pictures and stories about dairy farmers Barry and Elaine Tibbetts, Austin Moore, owner of Unias Farms, Bill Burting, and Barbara ``Bambi'' Jones of Hidden Valley Farm. It also mentions artists Gus Moore, Roger Majorowicz and Natasha Mayers, as well as ``Mr. Whitefield,'' David Chase of Sheepscot Meadows Bed and Breakfast.