September 2019
Critics Smoking
Critics Smoking, Fiction by Dan Domench
Keeping the Canon
New fiction by Gwen Thompson
How the Sea Smells
New summer fiction by Ann Hood.
Tales of the Grand Hotels & Inns
Toni Morrison’s stay at Portland’s Pomegranate Inn.
The Former Enemy Below
Karl Robert Bauer tells all on the WWII U-Boat 805 surrender.
By Colin W. Sargent
Under the Sun, Over the Sea
Soak up summer on deck.
By Olivia Gunn Kotsishevskaya
The Green Book, Maine Edition
Maine was in the books.
By Olivia Gunn Kostishevskaya and Jake Doolittle
Summerguide 2019
Food&Drink
125 “Lobster
à la Everything”
Everywhere you look,
somebody’s playing the shell game.
From Staff & Wire Reports
147 Hungry Eye
“Oysters: A Love Story”
We check in with the “It Girl” of Portland happy hours: the oyster.
By Diane Hudson
168 Dining Guide
Twenty-one select area
restaurants strut their stuff.
169 Restaurant Review
“Eaux: A Tale of Acadie”
Echoes of Acadia at Portland’s Cajun hot spot.
By Colin W. Sargent
Personalities
105 “From Here to Eternity”
An Ogunquit Playhouse production opens in Las Vegas.
By Colin W. Sargent
153 “Endless Ocean,
Endless Love”
The secret Bar Harbor love
story of Edith Wharton’s Fast
and Loose youth.
By Colin W. Sargent
Perspectives
36 From the Editor
“The Ultimate Getaway”
By Colin W. Sargent
38 Letters
97 Portland After Dark
“Blithe Spirits”
Are distilleries the new
bar-crawl haunts?
By Olivia Gunn Kotsishevskaya
Oysters: A Love Story
We check in with the “It Girl” of Portland happy hours.
By Diane Hudson
Eaux: A Tale of Acadie
“Eaux: A Tale of Acadie”
Echoes of Acadia at Portland’s Cajun hot spot.
By Colin W. Sargent
The Ultimate Getaway
Summerguide 2019