October 2015
From the Editor
From the Editor
July/August 2015
A few weeks ago, during a casual search of the Boston-based Skinner Auctioneers site, I bumped into a list of rare documents headed for the block.
Quantum Maine
Summerguide 2015
They Fly by Night
May 2015 Do you like to travel by night? Maine’s dismal, curvy roads can be daunting. That’s why what songbirds do is so incredible. They’re driven to fly north along the blackest of turnpikes at dizzy heights–whether they like it or not. Particularly in May, yellow...
Portlyn?
April 2015 Recently, 2 Degrees Portland, a non-profit organization connected to Creative Portland, created the event “Portlyn” in a “3,600 sf Art Studio” space,” according to their Facebook page. Their métier is to be “a network of people who want to sustain and grow...
S/hipsters
February/March 2015 The Portland Observatory was built amid great fanfare at the top of Munjoy Hill in 1807. Like the Time & Temperature building, it flashed messages. Flags and pennants in coded patterns alerted locals to the identity of new ships arriving in...
Paul Black’s Sense of Snow
Winterguide 2015 It shook me as I walked to work through a post-Impressionistic winter day toward Portland Magazine’s headquarters at 165 State Street. While the late Paul Black hadn’t actually painted our building (see bottom photo), he’d helped me see it. Memorably,...
WOLF MOON
December 2014 Imagine Bonfire of the Vanities with a Maine plot and setting. Carolyn Chute’s new novel, Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves, is that kind of brilliant–full of mischief and a great holiday gift for readers who dare to scratch the surface of...
Maine’s Gone Girl
November 2014 The Ben Affleck blockbuster movie Gone Girl is the stuff of water-cooler talk. But if you really want to be in the know about Gone Girl, the trip will take you to Maine. And Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn is the first to acknowledge it. In a Huffington...
Mainestruck
October 2014 You can’t beat Maine’s exotic émigrés, flying under the radar. One of them is Tom Joyce, a sales executive at Southern Maine Motors in Saco. “I used to work with the White House’s top-secret communications team during the Johnson and Nixon...
Seconds, Anyone?
September 2014 Sitting in the dining room at the Colony Hotel in Kennebunkport, guests are treated to chargers emblazoned with Colony Hotel Kennebunkport. But look closely. Every once in a while, like a four-leaf clover, a near-identical plate shows up among the place...
Sockalexis Was Here, Too
July/August 2014 Across galaxies of magic summers, members of the Penobscot tribe paddled open-ocean from Indian Island to The Indian Canoe Landing in Kennebunkport, their summer hunting grounds. The old landing still exists across the street from Mabel’s Lobster...
