Greta VanCampen
SEE-October 2012 Greta VanCampen’s From Cape Rosier 2012, acrylic on panel, 12″ x 12″ “Last summer I drove up the coast to Cape Rosier with my friend Max. We are both originally from Maine, but neither of us had ever explored
Articles
Statues
A-LIST-October 2012 By Joe Hebert 01 Longfellow Statue Portland The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow statue in Portland’s West End neighborhood was unveiled on September 29, 1888. While historically significant, the statue is also a fun landmark for city residents—during the holidays, wrapped
Freeport, South Freeport, + Brunswick
48 HOURS-October 2012 Photographs + stories by Maine magazine staff: Sophie Nelson, Heidi Kirn, + Jack Leonardi Sophie Nelson, Associate Editor 3:00 p.m. @ Wolfe’s Neck Farm + Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park The highway is wet. Drops of rain
Olympia Snowe
PROFILE-October 2012 By Jaed Coffin Photographs by James Allen Walker It’s the last day of May. The Portland Head Light parking lot is dappled with wandering tourists. Beyond them, a gang of shirtless high school boys spreads mulch for
The Island Institute
PROFILE-October 2012 By Sarah Braunstein Photographs by Peter Ralston THE BOAT I am on a boat. More specifically, I am balanced on the bow of a 37-foot lobster cruiser rocketing across Penobscot Bay. I’m holding an expensive camera and
Where Dream Boats Float
LOCATION-October 2012 By Sandy Lang Photographs by Peter Frank Edwards It’s always been the smallest boats in a cove or harbor—the nutshell dinghies and tenders with oars left lying across the seat—that, for me, steal the scene. I imagine an
The Oxford County Gamble
FEATURE-October 2012 By Jaed Coffin Photographs by Fred Field I leave Brunswick about eight in the morning, and after taking a web of back roads through the farms and fields and forests of Pownal and Gray, I turn north
Grace, Portland
After spending a considerable amount of my early childhood at church on each and every Sunday, not to mention the torturous, prerequisite C.C.D. classes forced on me by my parents, one would think that I might have developed a strong
Martha Sterling-Golden
Q+A-September 2012 By Sophie Nelson NAME: Martha Sterling-Golden AGE: 57 OCCUPATION: Nonprofit advisor, writer + musician A folk-rock singer and musician, Martha Sterling-Golden is a past president of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale University, and now serves on the advisory board
