Features

40 Requiem for a Replica?
Freshened up in Portland, the Amistad charts a course for the unknown.
By Stacy Sullivan

45 Venue Menu
If there’s one thing we’ve got, it’s festivals.
From Staff & Wire Reports

52 Fit For a King
The nine lives of the BIW-built staysail schoonerBlack Douglas.
By Colin W. Sargent

57 Supply-side Gastronomics
Hardworking retailer/wholesalers make Portland a great place to eat.
By Claire Z. Cramer

62 Members Only
Blue blazers, please; we’re going to the yacht club.
From Staff & Wire Reports

69  Rainy-Day Weird
Get your freak on by poking around Maine’s little museums of this and that.
From Staff & Wire Reports

77  Sophisticated Ladies
Do these ladies ever have a past! Step into the glamor days when Bath Iron Works created yachts as well as Navy combatants.
By Andrew Toppan

Departments

20 From the Editor

22 Letters

24 Imperatífs

26 Goings On

36 Chowder

38 All Things Lobster

87 Casco Bay Experience

89 Dining Guide

89 Restaurant Review
The Dolphin, Harpswell

99 House of the Month
“Pineapple House,”
Kennebunkport, 1735

108 New England Homes & Living

119 Fiction
“Identity Theft”
By Barbara F. Lefcowitz

120 Flash