Features
Rogues Gallery
By Michael Williams
Photographed by Mikael Kennedy
On the fourth floor of a building on 26th Street in New York City, there is an enclave of nautical New England, a space full of the lore of the Atlantic, a celebration of seafarers and grizzly wharf types. At first glance you might think you stumbled into a fishermen museum in downtown Portland rather than the New York showroom and part-time creative center of the Maine-based clothing label Rogues Gallery.
Ice Shacks
Jan/Feb 2010
Photographs by Scott Peterman
Guys go out for a lot of different reasons. Mostly it’s about getting away. Shacks are kind of like treehouses for grown men.
The Nordic Heritage Center is a X-Country Skier’s Paradise
March 2010
Written by Sarah E. Getchell / Photographs by Nick LaVecchia + Tim Doak
Deep in the wild expanse of the northern Maine woods, there is a red Swedish-style lodge that lures both Olympic athletes and recreational skiers to Presque Isle. It’s 300 miles from Portland, a stone’s throw from Canada, and in the northeastern corner of the largest, least-populated county east of the Mississippi.
Read more: The Nordic Heritage Center is a X-Country Skier’s Paradise
Gone to Maine
Jan/Feb 2010
Written + Photographed by Jonathan Levitt
Artists come to Maine. They always have. And when they come to Maine they work. Maybe it’s because Maine is a beautiful place, and an industrious place, and a magical place. Maybe it’s because Maine is close to the rest of the art world, but feels so far away. Maybe it’s because they can be here, but while they are here, they can be alone, each in their own world. Some stay the summer, and then return to their suburb or their big city and they miss this place. Others come, and they stay, and they keep staying.
Walking Life
Jan/Feb 2010
By Chelsea Holden Baker | Photography by Kristin Teig
The West End, Portland
If John Calvin Stevens had his way, his pièce de résistance would sit on Portland’s Western Promenade today. Instead of a bronze of Thomas Brackett Reed, Stevens’s state capitol building (modeled on Brunelleschi’s dome in Florence) would command the view of the White Mountains from the center of the promenade. And since airports aren’t built in view of rotundas, the jetport wouldn’t have been built in Stroudwater. The Fore River might have become a sanctuary. Hospitals might have been government complexes. And the Blaine House would likely be the Leighton House.
But the late-nineteenth-century bid to move the state capital to Portland was unsuccessful, and one of the state’s oldest neighborhoods, remained a neighborhood.
Chelsea Holden Baker spoke with eight people about their experience of the West End.
Last Boat
POETRY-Jan/Feb 2010
Edited by Christopher Seid | Illustration by Christopher David Ryan
Betsy Sholl from Late Psalm, University of Wisconsin Press, 2004
Schoodic: Pink Granite, Fog, Fishermen, Moss
FEATURE-Nov/Dec 2009
Written + Photographed by Jonathan Levitt
March 2009
I’m driving up the spine of the coast, driving from western Massachusetts, driving with the heat on and the windows down. I’m driving with dog hair in the car, Bruce Springsteen and The Kinks in the car, peanut butter and banana peels in the car. I’m driving until I run out of bridges.
Gouldsboro is the end of the line. The eastern edge of the Schoodic Peninsula, the eastern edge of Hancock County, the eastern edge of the United States.
Photo-A-Go-Go Keeps on Going
FEATURE-Nov/Dec 2009
By Jessica Tomlinson | Photograph by Scott Peterman
On December II, 2009, the bakery photographic collective in Westbrook hosts its tenth annual auction, the season's go-to benefit auction, one that's been cleverly disguised as a killer party.
Uplifting new sounds, still Rustic Overtones
FEATURE-Nov/Dec 2009
By Chelsea Holden Baker | Photography by Nathan Eldridge
Turn it up, flop on the couch, and just listen to The New Way Out
The way they got by
FEATURE-October 2009
By Laura Serino
When Gita Pullapilly, producer of the documentary The Way We Get By, went to a screening in Orono in April, she expected to just show the film and get some audience feedback. But the screening also resulted in something else: a free wedding for her and her fiancé, Aron Gaudet.
CIFF: small towns, big films
FEATURE-October 2009
By Laura Serino | Photograph by Shoshannah White
In the last few weeks Ben Fowlie has scouted locations for a festival pre-party and opening night, talked to dozens of filmmakers, mapped out a volunteer schedule, worked out details with a printer for banners, T-shirts, and programs, and tied up lots of other loose ends.
Outstanding in the Field: Four Season Farm
FEATURE-October 2009
Written + photographed by Jonathan Levitt
The table twists and turns at the edge of a meadow, shaded by oaks, within sight of the orchards and artichoke patch—not far from the fog of Penobscot Bay.
One Mainer's Meat
FEATURE-October 2009
By Peter A. Smith / Photographs by Jonathan Levitt
A partial inventory of the kitchen at Salt Water Farm: glass canning jars, oyster and clam knives, foraged mushrooms, a granite kitchen island with a Wolf six-burner range and grill, a wood-burning brick oven, a kegerator, shelves lined with back issues of Gourmet and Saveur, two Bosch dishwashers, two Viking baking ovens, two Australian shepherd dogs (Moxie and Moose), a complete set of Le Creuset cookware, a collection of All-Clad, a collection of antique cast-iron pans, and a big, communal dining room table.
North Haven: a city girl soaks up the last of summer
Fried food, wooden boats, bonfires on the beach
FEATURE-October 2009
By Laura Serino / Photographs by Trent Bell
North Haven, one of Maine’s 15 year-round island communities, has 381 residents, one grocery store, one gas pump, and lots of deer. In May, Laura Serino left Starbucks, subways, and her studio apartment in New York City to live on the island. Now, she brews her own coffee, rows around in skiffs, and lives in a home heated with
a wood stove.
Read more: North Haven: a city girl soaks up the last of summer
Whole Grain
Mike LaVecchia and his crew build world-class, wooden surfboards in York.
FEATURE-September 2009
By Peter A. Smith / Photographs by Nick LaVecchia
On Long Sands Beach in York, families parade through the fog carrying ice cream cones and Nerf footballs, leading sandy children and barking dogs. Offshore, in the frigid swells, androgynous-looking frogmen in black Neoprene wetsuits climb onto longboards and silently surf a steady left-hand break. West of the waves, past suburban homes, lush, green tidal coves, white fences and horse barns, stands a modest gray warehouse: the world headquarters for Grain Surfboards.
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