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    Om State

    WELLNESS-June 2011 By Genevieve Morgan Illustration by Jennifer Judd-McGee Over the past decade, Maine has seen a yoga explosion that would impress even Patanjali, the great Hindu yogi of 2,000 years ago.   Chances are you’ve seen them in a coffee shop near

    Steve Mumford

    SEE-June 2011 By Deborah Weisgall Archers 2006, pencil and watercolor, 11” x 14”   Steve Mumford first went to Iraq in 2003. “I flew to Kuwait City and found a ride to Baghdad with a French journalist. I remember going

    Man Seeks Sea

    FEATURE-June 2011 By Peter Behrens Or, Why He Learned to Love Sailing   During the splashy depths of mud season, I often recalled my last sail. Eggemoggin Reach, the middle of October. Breeze out of the southwest, 10 to 12 knots.

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    Chapels

    FEATURE-May 2011 By Tyler Boucher Photographs by Thomas Birtwistle Some of the oldest and most revered buildings in Maine are chapels. After decades filled with ecclesiastical gatherings and non-denominational celebrations alike, these sanctuaries are still in use today, serving their

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    Vinyl State

    FEATURE-May 2011 By Sandy Lang Photographs by Peter Frank Edwards What happens when a 1970s- era record player spurs a weekend search for vinyl vendors? This yarn just might need a soundtrack.   Play a record, and you can almost 

    Susan Hiller

    SEE-May 2011 By Deborah Weisgall Still from The J. Street Project, 2002Ð2005.  Video installation: single-channel projection, color, stereo, 67 minutes.  Colby College Museum of Art. Gift of Sally and Michael Gordon.   A grid of 303 small, numbered photographs with

    Mark Wethli

    SEE-April 2011 By Deborah Weisgall Cinnamon Girl 2009, acrylic on panel, 20” x 15”     Kwazy Wabbit 2009 acrylic on panel, 20” x 15”   In this recent work, Mark Wethli paints spare, almost typographical shapes on beat-up, splintered boards. Exuberant contradictions,

    Running Into Yourself

    FEATURE-April 2011 By Chelsea Holden Baker Photographs by Mark Yaggie What has a runner got that I haven’t got? I thought about the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Lion from The Wizard of Oz. I thought about mind, heart,

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    Oyster Drive

    FEATURE-March 2011 Written by Sandy Lang Photographs by Peter Frank Edwards Take a flight into Portland, and power directly north on some combination of Route 1 and I-95 to the cabin near Bucksport. That’s what we typically do—but not this