Jean Becker
Q&A-June 2012 NAME: Jean Becker AGE: 56 OCCUPATION: Chief of staff to President George H. W. Bush How did you get to know and work for President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush? My background is in journalism. I
A Wyeth Muse, 30 Years Later
Back on Monhegan for his yearly visit, Orca Bates Melenbacker reflects on becoming one of Jamie Wyeth's favorite subjects.
Megan Grumbling
POETRY-June 2012 Poem by Megan Grumbling Edited by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc Artwork by Sam Guay “Purge” in the Bethel sauna Supine and stripped, we’re bent in crooked thrall to yellow pine’s rash blaze and roar. Sludge seeps from us logged
Eric Bettencourt
LISTEN-June 2012 By Sophie Nelson Photograph by Matt Cosby Eric Bettencourt is a man who lives by a familiar idiom: If you want something done right, do it yourself. When the time came to record his first album a
Angus King
PROFILE-June 2012 By Jaed Coffin Photographs by Jack Montgomery + courtesy of Angus King Another Great Compromise: The Unretirement of Angus King It’s a cold and sunny Saturday morning in early April and Angus King, a month after announcing
Ben Willauer
Q&A-May 2012 NAME: Ben Willauer AGE: 35 OCCUPATION: Portfolio Manager WHAT’S YOUR CONNECTION TO MAINE? My family descends from Winslow Homer, so the property on Prouts Neck has been passed down for a long time. I grew up coming
The Telling Room Young Writers Contest
POETRY-May 2012 Edited by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc With the support of Longfellow Books, Maine magazine, the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, and the Southern Maine Writing Project, the Telling Room received hundreds of submissions for its writing contest this year. Middle
Kenya Hall
LISTEN-May2012 By Sophie Nelson Photograph by Will Stewart It’s Saturday morning in the small industrial city of Canton, Ohio, and everyone in the Hall family has a duster, broom, or rag in hand. While Kenya Hall and her siblings
Cyrus Hagge
PROFILE-May 2012 By Sarah Braunstein Photographs by Trent Bell (Not) Just Another Hippie The Life and Times of Cyrus Hagge It’s 1976. The Bicentennial. America is 200 years old and still getting made. In Boston and DC and Philadelphia,
The Threat, the Record Breaker, and the Natural
FEATURE-May 2012 By Allison Paige Photographs by Irvin Serrano The Triple Threat JACK COOLEEN As a child on Long Island, New York, Jack Cooleen played soccer, lacrosse, basketball, hockey, and baseball. He moved to Maine in third grade. In