October 2012

Gather, Yarmouth

It’s a dreary, Wednesday night, but as soon as I enter the yellow house on Main Street, the chill is gone and warmth envelops me. Although it’s only been open a few weeks, Gather already feels cozy, lived-in, and familiar.

Andy Shepard

Q+A-November 2012 By Sophie Nelson NAME: Andy Shepard AGE: 55 OCCUPATION: President/CEO of the Maine Winter Sports Center You grew up in Maine? My dad was in the military or working for the government, so I was all over the place—Cuba, Japan, Alaska.

Natalie’s

From pre-dinner cocktails to the most incredible beignets you will ever taste, every last detail of the dining experience is executed with painstaking precision. While it may seem sacrilegious to some, each time I visit the Camden Harbour Inn I

Philly/Kondor8

SEE-November 2012 Philly/Kondor8’s It Just Happened Like That 2010, multimedia collage, 20″ x 16″ “The piece is multidimensional. It groups and it regroups. It comes together differently every time you look at it.” —Philly/Kondor8 The Kymara Gallery | 2 Main

In with the Old, In with the New

WELLNESS-November 2012 By Sophie Nelson Photographs by Sean Alonzo Harris Catherine Cloudman and Apothecary by Design’s healthy approach to pharmacy. It is a bright Friday morning in Perx-U-Up Cafe on Portland’s Marginal Way, the seamless extension of the independent pharmacy

Turkey Trots

A-LIST-November 2012 By Joe Hebert 01 Maine-ly Moose Portland 5K Race 11.10 | Deering Oaks Park This off-road course is a classic “old-fashioned” race—complete with self-proclaimed bad jokes from the race director before and after the event. This year’s Maine-ly Moose

Bangor, Brewer, + Orono

48 HOURS-November 2012 Photographs + stories by Maine magazine staff: Sophie Nelson, Susan Grisanti + Joe Hebert Joe Hebert, Online Editor   Friday 4:00 p.m. @ Portland Transportation Center I hurry out of work to pick up my friend Alex—a

The Relentless Perfection of Linda Bean

PROFILE By Jaed Coffin Photographs by Fred Field Talk of lobster with the L.L. Bean heiress. It’s a hot afternoon at the public wharf in Port Clyde. In the distance, two shirtless men on a roof hustle through some late-season

A Dream of Shoes

PROFILE-November 2012 By Sarah Braunstein Photographs by Nicole Wolf A look into Lewiston’s Rancourt and Co.’s shoes and the father and son team behind them. You know that common nightmare scenario in which something you want so badly is just