Federal Jack’s rules the winter in Kennebunk.

BY COLIN W. SARGENT

It’s January in K’port, with the sidewalks rolled up and snow piled along the roadways. 

What an alternate-narrative movie this would make, with its “low-tide dolor”—a phrase of Robert Lowell’s. Federal Jack’s would have to star as the second-floor, above-the-fray watering hole in such a film. Its sparkling views of the river are worth the drive from anywhere.

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