PROFILE-September 2009 By Nancy Heiser Photographs by Nathan Eldridge Winemaker, organic grape grower, father, oenological explorer In Warren, Oyster River winemaker Brian Smith has begun the arduous search for grapes that may eventually represent the terroir of Knox County. His
PROFILE-September 2009 Photographs by Nathan Eldridge Writer, editor, mother, Mainer Discussed: Brooklin, New York, boatbuilding, fog, neighbors, The Uses of Enchantment, and getting lost. Heidi Julavits grew up in Portland and has written three novels, The Mineral Palace, The Effect of Living
Small plates, off-beat wines, old-stuff chic EAT-September 2009 Written + Photographed by Jonathan Levitt Grape vines can live for over 100 years. With time the trunks grow thick and gnarled, and the roots reach deeper and deeper down into the
Pristine shellfish, hand-brewed beer, and a view of the bay EAT-September 2009 Written + Photographed by Jonathan Levitt In old-time London, pirates were put to death on the gallows at Execution Dock. The hangman’s landing was just off the banks
Refined Victoriana in Bar Harbor Just off Bar Harbor’s Main Street, steps away from ice cream parlors and T-shirt shops, banks and restaurants, are two side-by-side Victorian mansions, both survivors of the Great Fire of 1947. The Ullikana and the
FEATURE-September 2009 By Peter A. Smith Photographs by Nick LaVecchia Mike LaVecchia and his crew build world-class, wooden surfboards in York. On Long Sands Beach in York, families parade through the fog carrying ice cream cones and Nerf footballs, leading
FEATURE-September 2009 By Daphne Howland Illustrations by Eric Hou Maine’s most audacious, incredible, superheroic, global town meeting Pop!Tech is a conference, a global nonprofit organism, an idea magnet, a hyperkinetic network of Web 2.0 brainstorming. Each October, academics, techies, digerati,
EAT FEATURE-September 2009 By Peter A. Smith Photographs by Jonathan Levitt Portland’s newest restaurants In May, the big, neon S in the Eastland Park Hotel’s rooftop sign went out, so that on the approach from South Portland, up and over
SEE-September 2009 Marsden Hartley City Point, Vinalhaven 1937–1938, oil on board, 18” x 24”. Gift of the Alex Katz Foundation Marsden Hartley (b. Lewiston, Maine, 1877) was a painter, poet, and essayist who traveled the world seeking spiritual and transcendental
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