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Babies On Board

February/March 2015
Chick magnets: loon parenting is unusually photogenic

What Were We Thinking? I’ll Tell You.

February/March 2015
Sixties Flashback: Urban Renewal, Go-Go Boots, and an Old Port that was nothing short of scary.

The 50-Foot Journey

February/March 2015
Natalie DiBenedetto unveils a new gourmet takeout venue.

Call Me Kurt

February/March 2015
A famous novelist skates into a Power play.

The Merry Table

February 2015
Bonheur on Wharf Street
Follow the cobblestones to the city crêperie.
Wharf Street in Portland is magical on this night as we cross the cobblestones, casting…

Delicious Risks

February/March 2015
Chefs let their imaginations run wild as Maine Restaurant Week stretches to two weeks–March 1 to 14.

Peter Ross Perkins and I met in 1953 in New York to serve aboard the U.S.S. Hornet, the eighth ship to bear that name. She’d been launched 10 months after the seventh Hornet was sunk in World War II, but she, too, had seen much action in the war. Now, recalled from retirement, she was ready to serve during and after the Korean War. She was to be launched in all her renewed glory from Brooklyn Naval Shipyard.

February/March 2015

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Goat

Jimmy, an old friend of her husband’s, showed up with a goat in the back of his truck and his arms crossed under his ridiculous mustache. The goat, he explained, had shown up at his job site near Robinhood Cove.

First Love

Through a wall of window hazed by breath and sweat, I watch floodlights on the ski lift towers convert falling snowflakes into orange embers. The trails are ribbed like children’s corduroy and the green shadows of the woods fan out before the roving headlights of the groomers. It is a scene designed to incite desire. And like all calls to physical passion recklessly luxurious.

Winterguide 2015