Whippoorwill - John James Audubon studied and painted the birds of Downeast Maine . Audubon twice visited Washington County in the early 19th century , in 1831 and 1833 , and created drawings and watercolors of such birds as the Hyperborean Phalarope , Harlequin Duck , and Thick Billed Murre . The Lincoln Sparrow that Audubon located in nearby Nova Scotia was named for Thomas Lincoln of Dennysville . Audubon chartered the schooner Ripley out of Eastport for his trip to Labrador in 1833 . Work by John James Audobon .
John James Audubon studied and painted the birds of Downeast Maine . Audubon twice visited Washington County in the early 19th century , in 1831 and 1833 , and created drawings and watercolors of such birds as the Hyperborean Phalarope , Harlequin Duck , and Thick Billed Murre . The Lincoln Sparrow that Audubon located in nearby Nova Scotia was named for Thomas Lincoln of Dennysville . Audubon chartered the schooner Ripley out of Eastport for his trip to Labrador in 1833 .
An example of the well-known artists from the 1900 ’ s whose art was directly inspired by the land and people of Downeast Maine include George Pierce Ennis , Sandor Bernath , Winslow Homer , Stow Wengenroth , George Horne Russell , and Harrison Bird Brown . The modernist coastal paintings of John Marin who summered in Addison are in collections of major museums across the United States . In 1938 , New York City based photographer , George Daniell , first came to the area on his way to neighboring Grand Manan Island in New Brunswick where he photographed the herring fisheries . Later , Daniell settled in Trenton . In the 1950s a contingent of Boston based artists began to frequent Lubec each summer . They were led by artist Nina Bohlen , whose mother had married into the Pike family of Lubec and included such well known Boston artists and photographers as Hyman Bloom , Steven Trefonides , Paul Caponigro and Marie Cosindas .
The slow-paced , contemplative , often solitary Downeast life is particularly nurturing to writers . EB White was a newspaper writer for The New Yorker and Harper ’ s , and also caught the attention of the Rusticators . The legendary fair in White ’ s children ’ s book Charlotte ’ s Web is based on the annual Blue Hill Fair . Children ’ s author Robert McKlosky wrote about life lived amongst the wild blueberries , mud flats , coastal waters , and small towns of the Blue Hill peninsula .
Roger Angell is known for his writing on baseball , has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker , including writing the annual Christmas Poem , and was its chief fiction editor for many
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