July 2012

40 Paper

The rustic Mediterranean fare at 40 Paper in Camden will make even the most jaded diner happy. There are few things more universally comforting than great pasta. When chef and restaurateur Josh Hixson is questioned about what exactly makes 40 Paper’s pasta so

Nathaniel Bellows

POETRY-July 2012 Poem by Nathaniel Bellows Edited by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc Artwork by Morgan Cremins   “Field Work” You found in the pools of your binoculars the living twin of the painting above your desk. This one alive, its bright red wings

William Wegman

SEE-July 2012 William Wegman’s Water Damage 2012, oil and postcard on wood panel, 16″ x 12″ “A vintage postcard is affixed to the surface of Water Damage. Doubling as a window, it frames—but hardly contains—an idyllic landscape. Here, water does not

The Sweetness that Follows

WELLNESS-July 2012 By Genevieve Morgan Photographs by Greta Rybus   Kate Braestrup—author of the memoirs Here If You Need Me, a New York Times bestseller, Marriage and Other Acts of Charity, and Beginner’s Grace, as well as the novel Onion—is

Lakes

A-LIST-July 2012 By Joe Hebert   01 Pleasant Lake, Island Falls On the fringes of Island Falls, just half an hour or so from the New Brunswick, Canada, border, lies Pleasant Lake. Frozen from December to May, the lake attracts ice fisherman

Mount Desert Island

48 HOURS-July 2012 Photographs + stories by Maine magazine staff: Kevin Thomas, Susan Grisanti + Kate Gable   Kevin Thomas, Publisher Friday   4:30 p.m. @ Bar Harbor Inn The Bar Harbor Inn is a stately William Emerson–designed shingle style on the

Frenchboro: Island of Fish + Forest

LOCATION FEATURE-July 2012 By Sandy Lang Photographs by Peter Frank Edwards   The night sky is black as a slate chalkboard. The blinds are open in the house where we’re staying on a hill above Lunt Harbor, and I can’t

State of Grace

FEATURE-July 2012 By Allison Paige Photographs by Arthur Fink For a few months every summer, hundreds of dancers flock to Lewiston, where the Bates Dance Festival has created the perfect alchemy of inspiration, dedication, and perspiration. Preparing to celebrate its