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Maine Magazine Launch Party

THERE + THEN- October 2009Photographs by Amanda Kowalski We think our party had all the trimmings of a classic magazine launch—here and now in Maine. Some 700 people drank cocktails, danced, and tasted food as the late summer sun set

Foster Huntington

STYLE-October 2009 Photography by Shoshannah White Name: Foster Huntington Age: 21 Location: 39 Brackett Street, Portland   From here or from away? I was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Where do you live now? I am a senior at

Recipe for Success

FEAST-October 2009 (from Maine Home+Design) By Rebecca Falzano Photographs by François Gagné   When chef Michael Gagné, co-owner of Robinhood Free Meetinghouse in Georgetown, set out to create the perfect biscuit years ago, little did he know that his personal passion would

Gideon Bok

WORKSPACE-September 2009 Photograph by Meggan Gould Gideon Bok paints his studios and whatever happens to be in them. He received his MFA from Yale University School of Art in 1996, worked as a Guggenheim fellow in 2004, and currently lives

Brian Smith

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

Heidi Julavits

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

Old Vines

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

Three Tides

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

The Bass Cottage Inn and Ullikana

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