How can you top celebrating your 85th birthday by skydiving? You celebrate your 88th birthday by levitating to the Navy’s new carrier that bears your name.

By Colin W. Sargent

As summer rushed into Kennebunkport, so did the Navy’s newest nuclear carrier. Named for former-President George Herbert Walker Bush (41), the $6.2 billion warship, anchored barely two miles off Walker’s Point, provided a startling backdrop for the lobster boats dotting the coast here.

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