Features

40 Swept Away
Forget New Guinea–Margaret Mead should have documented the bizarre subculture of Main Line Philadelphians who still sail 21-foot knockabouts in Winter Harbor.
By Donna Stuart

43 Are You Getting
Fresh With ME?
Sometimes, ‘yesterday’s catch’
just doesn’t cut the mustard.
By Rachael Hayden

44 Sometimes a Great Kitchen…
Are period-perfect kitchens the drive-in movies of our gastro-centric lifestyles?
By Donna Stuart

46 Painting the Sea
Louise Frechette is part of a
rich tradition of Mainers capturing the infinite.
Interview by Colin Sargent

51 Pardon My French
A mother and daughter enjoys a shopping spree in Freeport and Portland–speaking only in French and Spanish–to see if the customer is always right.
By Rhea Côté Robbins &
Bridget T. Robbins

73 Dangerous When Wet
Ian Crocker: Chapter 2
Interview by Michelle Susan Twomey

In Every Issue

20 From the Editor
”Eye of the Needle”
By Colin Sargent

24 Letters
We hear from the green roommate in Star Trek, a Witch’s Head familiar, and your basic Jersey girl.

32 Goings On

37 Chowder
A tasty blend of the fabulous,
noteworthy, and absurd.

68 Restaurant Review
”Presidential Range” It’s a Yankee Olympus at Cape Arundel
Inn, above clouds of sea roses.
By Diane Hudson

68 Dining Guide

94 House of the Month
“Front Row Ticket”
For sale–a yachting paradise
on the Kennebunk River.

98 New England
Homes & Living

115 Fiction
“Lorelei”
By Kathryn Perry

120 Flash

Departments

26 2009 Summer
Festivals Guide
”Animal Magnetism”
Six Native American powwows
highlight a panoply of over 100
festivals drawing crowds this summer.

55 Cuiscene
“Burnin’ Love”
Some like it hot, especially the East End purveyors of Captain Mowatt’s hot sauces.
By Judith Gaines

59 Personal Shopper
“No Grain, No Gain!”
If you’re seeking surfboards as
functional art, this cedar house rules!
By Amy Louise Reynolds

62 Market Watch
“Wicker Man”
Bar Harbor Wicker was never made in Bar Harbor. Discuss.
By Sarah Cumming Cecil

65 Performance
“From Bulgaria With Love”
Project Greenlight winner Kyle Rankin lights up the Maine International Film Festival.
Interview by Todd M. Richard

76 2009 Guide to Wellness