July/August 2012

Features

44 Flashdance
Ships aren’t the only things guided by our Fresnel lenses. It turns out our lighthouses attract dollars.
By David Svenson

53 Pocket Goddess
The original Godspeed may have dazzled Pocahontas, but her replica’s a Maine girl, from Rockport.
By Zoe Colton

55 Event Horizon
It’s not every day a 1,092-foot aircraft carrier floats past your picture window.
By Colin W. Sargent

63 Coming to Maine to Study Abroad
Meet the perfect students. Can well-heeled international expats like Amin and Yalda Esmaielpour boost USM?
By Cassandra Kane

69 Picnic @ Griffin Rock
Transformers’s executive producer Jeff Kline mixes business with pleasure in Cape Elizabeth.
Interview by David Svenson

75 Inside Scoop on Outliers Eatery
A new restaurant is emerging on Portland’s horizon, overlooking the Casco Bay Bridge.
By Meagan Saville Riedmann

Departments

18 From the Editor

20 Letters

22 Imperatífs

24 Festival Guide
Sunday River’s 13th Annual Wife Carrying Championship

34 Goings On

40 Discover Bath/Brunswick

43 Chowder

48 Waterfront Adventures

80 Dining Guide

81 Restaurant Review
LFK

83 House of the Month
Twenty-two Summer Street, Kennebunk, home of painter, diarist, and world traveler Edith Cleaves Barry